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 ...

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 ...

(Its first sentence incorrectly locates the Book of Esther in the Torah). The writers chastise American Jews for not aligning with their views of antisemitism, or agreeing with their proposals for ...

Who Wrote the Book of Esther? Tradition says Mordechai wrote the Book of Esther, but surely he wouldn't have gotten the timing of his own expulsion a century wrong? At the very core of the Jewish ...

On one level, “Seeing Further” is about the touching folly of trying to reanimate a relic. With the help of a couple of ...

The Scroll of Esther is said to be the last book added to the biblical canon. It is an odd, improbable story, farcical in nature, filled with absurd, exaggerated descriptions of the king and court ...