Well, not totally surprised. Esther’s story has been used as a symbol for centuries, as authors Elizabeth Dias and Ruth ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The book of Esther is one of the most challenging books in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, not only because of the difficulty of ...

The five Old Testament books dealt with in this volume of the Commentary occupied a special place in Hebrew tradition as selected readings for major festivals and were accordingly brought together in ...

Alarmed by abortion and transgender rights, Christian activists are invoking the Old Testament story of Esther, the Jewish orphan who bravely saved her people. By Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham ...

The Old Testament books are grouped in the following ... to the order of events in time which they narrate (Genesis to Esther); 2) Didactic or sapiential or moral books, which are so called ...

Specifically we do not agree on the Old Testament (OT) canon - the list of ... I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT.