TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haupt,Paul
TI  - Purim: Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis 
T2  - Analecta Gorgiana
SN  - 9781607240334
AV  - BM695.P8 .H387 2010
U1  - 296.436 23
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - Purim
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Purim --; Notes --; Abbreviations; restricted access
N2  - Approaching the question of Purim historically, Haupt notes that the book of Esther was composed during the reign of Judas Maccabeus, and he correlates the festival to the Babylonian New Year. He discusses the origin of the title “purim” from various languages, ultimately deciding on the Old Persian explanation. Moving forward, Haupt brings the festival into the more modern period, showing how the ancient tradition continues to exist. A useful resource for anyone interested in turn-of-the-century thought on the origins of an enigmatic biblical festival, this contribution is both readable to the layperson and scholarly as well
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463216030
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463216030
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463216030/original
ER  -