Communicating Esther
The Diffusion and Reception of a Biblical Dream
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- Hardcover
112 pages
- Release Date
11 September 2025
Summary
This book presents a communications approach to the biblical story of Esther and the ritual that it anchors, the Jewish carnival of Purim. Esther, the second-most written about book of the Bible, is thought to be based on a tale that circulated around 400 BC, and was later transcribed and brought before the Jewish Sages with the request that it be canonized. It was, though God is not mentioned in it, with its focus instead on glamour, drinking, sex, violence, and genocidal plots. Despite the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032322377 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032322373 |
| Author: | Elihu Katz, Menahem Blondheim |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 11 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 390g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture |
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About The Author
Elihu Katz
Elihu Katz (1926-2021) was one of the founding fathers of communication as a discipline. After graduating from Columbia University and teaching at the University of Chicago, he immigrated to Israel, established communication studies in the country, and also served as the founding director of Israeli Television. After retiring from the Hebrew University and then from the University of Southern California (USC), he was for many years the Sterling Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Menahem Blondheim is the Karl and Matilda Newhouse Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication and the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently serving as the Dean of the School of Media Studies at Israel’s College of Management, his research fields include the history of communication, particularly in the American and the Jewish experience, and media technologies, old and new.
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