Download or read book Finding Morality in the Diaspora? written by Charles D. Harvey and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores issues of moral character found in the different text versions of the book of Esther. First the study suggests the two most common approaches to perceived moral problems in the story of Esther: avoidance and transformation. Then it investigates selected portions of the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Greek Septuagint Text, and the Greek Alpha-Text stories of Esther, focusing on issues of morality via character analysis. Finally it concentrates on the moral ambiguity found in all three versions, and on the ways in which moral character in the Greek stories has been transformed.