This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and rema…
This book is, among Jews, one of the best-known and most enjoyed books of the Bible. The book's fame is due almost emtirely to its connection with Purim. If we did not have Purim, with the reading …
This book presents No. complicated problems of documentary analysis, such as are found in most of the other historical books of Old Testament. With the possible exception of the concluding verses i…
It is the ancient time of the Persian empire. Hadassah was content in her quiet life in the Jewish quarter of the city of Babylon with her uncle Mordecai, who has raised her from childhood. But she…
The greatest design of this portion of the Holy Scriptures is to display the wisdom, providence and power of God, in the preservation of his people, and in the destruction of their enemies. We lear…
Wrenched from a simple life for her Beauty, Esther finds herself at the mercy of king Xerxes. Leaving behind her only relatives, her cousins Mordecai and her first true love, Cyrus, she is thrown h…
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, that in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Sushan the palace, in the third years of his reign, he made …
The book of Esther was a conscious reaction to much of the conventional wisdom of its day, challenging beliefs regarding the Jerusalem temple, the land of Israel, Jewish law and even God. The autho…
Does God help those who help themselves? That may seem to be the message of the book of Esther nad Ruth. Some think that Ruth's attractiveness won over Naomi and Boaz, or that Esther's bold faithfu…