Fascinating read! I think I’m tracking with their argument, though without reading the full Lyell & Quick article (which is now on my to-do list, thanks to you!), I may be off. For obvious & understandable reasons, “colonisation” is an almost invariably bad term in the academy, and there may be convincing reasons to see what happened to Esther as just such a thing. That said, I feel I ought to arrive at any conclusion slooooooowly that might cause me to read backwards nefarious or negative intentions into the “Author” of those events. You’ve definitely given me something to ponder, so thanks! The connection between cultural incarnation & colonialism, the way they may feed back & forth into each other, the chicken & the egg, the crown of Esther & the crown of thorns.
Fascinating read! I think I’m tracking with their argument, though without reading the full Lyell & Quick article (which is now on my to-do list, thanks to you!), I may be off. For obvious & understandable reasons, “colonisation” is an almost invariably bad term in the academy, and there may be convincing reasons to see what happened to Esther as just such a thing. That said, I feel I ought to arrive at any conclusion slooooooowly that might cause me to read backwards nefarious or negative intentions into the “Author” of those events. You’ve definitely given me something to ponder, so thanks! The connection between cultural incarnation & colonialism, the way they may feed back & forth into each other, the chicken & the egg, the crown of Esther & the crown of thorns.