My small-group Bible study recently finished reading through and discussing the book of Esther. Most notable for being the one of only two books in the Bible that doesn’t directly mention ...

In Roman Catholic and Orthodox Old Testaments, the Book of Tobit (or Tobias) and Judith come before Esther. These books, which tell stories of heroism and divine provision among exiled Jews, are ...

while considered canonical by the Catholic Church as part of their Old Testament, was ignored by the rabbis and excluded from the Tanach. So what was it about the Book of Esther that not only made ...

Hermina Kleunyan was born in Rotterdam, Holland, and immigrated with her parents to the Dutch community of Orange City.

The Old Testament books are grouped in the following ... to the order of events in time which they narrate (Genesis to Esther); 2) Didactic or sapiential or moral books, which are so called ...