Esther




Esther: Introduction From the New American Bible

Esther Arthur McMahon, The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1909

Apocryphal Book of Esther Emil G. Hirsch and Carl Siegfried in The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906

Esther: Blueprint for a Sacred Carnival By Adele Berlin, from The JPS Bible Commentary: Esther

Esther The text of Esther along with the commentary by the 11th-century rabbi Rashi

Esther Resources from Early Jewish Writings

Esther By Emil G. Hirsch, John Dyneley Prince and Solomon Schechter in The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1910

Esther iTanakh's collection of links, courtesy of R. Christopher Heard of Milligan College

Holy Disobedience in Esther Article by Karol Jackowski in Theology Today, 1989

Esther and Realpolitik Prof. Haim Genizi, Department of World History, Bar- Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel

"In the fortress Shushan lived a Jew" Prof. Moshe Bar-Asher, Dept. of Hebrew Language, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Characterizing Esther from the Outset: The Contribution of the Story in Esther 2:1–20 Jonathan Jacobs, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2008

If Esther had not been that beautiful: dealing with a hidden God in the Book of Esther - Hebrew By Sabine M.L. Van Den Eynde, Biblical Theology Bulletin, Winter, 2001

The Book of Esther: Opus non gratum in the Christian Canon Frederic W. Bush, Fuller Theological Seminary, Bulletin for Biblical Research, 1998

In Quest of the Historical Mordecai By David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume 1

Mordecai Isidore Singer, M. Seligsohn and Wilhelm Bacher in the Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906

The Symbolic Function of Clothing in the Book of Esther By Jopie Siebert-Hommes, lectio difficilior, 2002

Reading Esther from Left to Right Contemporary Strategies for Reading a Biblical Text By David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume 1

Toward the Ur-Text of Esther By Lisbeth Fried, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2000

The Power of Anger: Tiptoeing Around Xerxes Robin Gallaher Branch, Crichton College, 2007




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