Oct 8, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min · 17 segments
Dr. Alexiana Fry, a guest researcher at the University of Copenhagen, and Dr. Esther Brownsmith, an assistant professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Dayton are interviewed by Charlotte Howley…
Alexiana FryGuestCharlotte HowleyHost
Lexie HenningHostexcellent thank you so much both of you that's yeah really wonderful I mean I completely get what you mean about sort of being captured by Esther you know and not because I'm another person I was not you know I most of my work is not on Esther and it hasn't been you know I was a classicist originally and then you know the first time I read it I was just oh my goodness this book is so rich and it's like it's so embodied and it's so like it's engagement with being in the court and this experience of being in the court is so sort of vividly realized, like it really does catch you.
So for those, you know, because not everyone in the audience spends all of their time in Professor, do we want to do a short summary of the book and its events? This is, you know, just to
How about I give the concise version and then you flesh in all the details that I left out that are really important.
So once upon a time in the empire of ancient Persia, there were a pair of Jewish priests.
She marries the king while Mordecai is kind of positioned to hear Tal's gossip.
And they happen to overhear a plot that is being made ultimately first a plot against the king.
And then ultimately they find out about a plot against all the Jewish people in Persia.
So Esther has to muster her boldness and her braveness, go and confront the king, which she does eloquently and cleverly.
And everyone lives happily ever after, except the people who got exterminated.
excellent thank you so much both of you that's yeah really wonderful I mean I completely get what you mean about sort of being captured by Esther you know and not because I'm another person I was not you know I most of my work is not on Esther and it hasn't been you know I was a classicist originally and then you know the first time I read it I was just oh my goodness this book is so rich and it's like it's so embodied and it's so like it's engagement with being in the court and this experience of being in the court is so sort of vividly realized, like it really does catch you.
So for those, you know, because not everyone in the audience spends all of their time in Professor, do we want to do a short summary of the book and its events? This is, you know, just to
How about I give the concise version and then you flesh in all the details that I left out that are really important.
So once upon a time in the empire of ancient Persia, there were a pair of Jewish priests.
She marries the king while Mordecai is kind of positioned to hear Tal's gossip.
And they happen to overhear a plot that is being made ultimately first a plot against the king.
And then ultimately they find out about a plot against all the Jewish people in Persia.
So Esther has to muster her boldness and her braveness, go and confront the king, which she does eloquently and cleverly.
And everyone lives happily ever after, except the people who got exterminated.
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