This book situates the book of Esther in the intellectual history of Ancient Judaism and provides a new understanding of its purpose.

The book of Esther is one of the most challenging books in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, not only because of the difficulty of understanding the book itself i

What if the way the book of Esther has been taught to us in church and retold to us in films, cartoons, and romance novels has missed the original point of the

Explores different traditions and usage of Esther in Judaism and Christianity, without neglecting the fundamental questions in scholarship.

The proceedings of a symposium entitled Esther 2000 held in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska in April 2000, the book contains a collection of essays that engages all