![]() This leads to people taking too little care to enjoy the richness of the story of Esther and its application for us today. These debates, too, have become old hat for experienced students. ![]() According to some accounts, it almost didn’t make it into the canon. It was a questioned book because it proposed a new festival ( Purim) and does not use the name of God. This is a classic tale, but somewhat predictable by contemporary standards.įor those who delve into the background of this Old Testament book, the provenance is equally familiar. To top it off, the bad guy dies on the gallows of his own construction, and the good guys get to kill their oppressors. ![]() We know all about the heroic Esther who had the courage to go before King Xerxes at the risk of her life with the memorable line, “If I perish, I perish.” That quote, along with Mordecai’s equally famous statement that Esther was raised up “for such a time as this” have a dramatic quality to that makes for good theater. ![]() ![]() It’s been made into a major motion picture, a cartoon, and studied and preached for generations. Esther is a book that many Christians seem to think has been exhausted. ![]()
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