Introductory Remarks: The Babylonian Esther Midrash -- Prologue -- The Proems -- Ahasuerus -- Ahasuerus' Calculations -- The Feast -- Vashti
Summary
"This work [vol. 1 of a three-volume work] ... consists of a translation and critical commentary to folios 10b-17a of the Babylonian Talmud Tractate Megillah. The material contained therein comprises the only full midrashic exposition of an entire biblical book to have been incorporated into the Babylonian Talmud, making it the only complete midrashic work that has come down to us from that prominent Jewish community and its rabbinic teachers."--Publisher's summary
