This volume offers a thematic study of an integral part of the Hebrew text of Esther, namely, violence. In The Dynamics of Violence and Revenge in the Hebrew Book of Esther, Francisco-Javier Ruiz-Ortiz makes the first ever monographic research on the topics of hostility and the mechanisms of revenge as expressed by the author of the Hebrew book of Esther. The study is divided into two parts consisting of three chapters each. Part 1 could be considered an introduction in which a status questionis of the Esther studies is presented with a semantic and narratological study of the...