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 ...
In the Book of Esther, power takes all sorts of ... she isn’t the only powerful woman in the Purim tale. Queen Esther, the story’s heroine, wields a form of power that is often hard to recognize.
Esther is a short book that reads like a modern-day thriller. The queen is banished for not obeying her husband’s orders, and Esther, an unknown, replaces her. Like James Bond, Mordecai prevents ...
Who Wrote the Book of Esther? Tradition says Mordechai wrote the Book of Esther ... Ahasuerus is the Aramaic form of Xerxes, who reigned in 485-465 B.C.E., but Xerxes' queen is known to have been ...