Esther

Introduction & Background History to the Book of Esther

• Jackowski, Karol. "Holy Disobedience in Esther." Theology Today 45, No. 4 (1988).
• Clines, David J. A. "In Quest of the Historical Mordecai." in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967-1998, Volume 1 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998): 436-43.
• Clines, David J. A. "Reading Esther from Left to Right Contemporary Strategies for Reading a Biblical Text." in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967-1998, Volume 1 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998): 3-22.
• Siebert-Hommes, Jopie. "“On the third day Esther put on her queen’s robes” (Esther 5:1): The Symbolic Function of Clothing in the Book of Esther." lectio difficilior 1 (2002).
• Eynde, Sabine M. L. van den. "If Esther Had Not Been That Beautiful: Dealing with a Hidden God in the Book of Esther." Biblical Theology Bulletin (2001).
• Pierce, Ronald W. "The Politics of Esther and Mordecia: Courage or Compromise?" Bulletin for Biblical Research 2 (1992): 75-89.
• Bergey, Ronald L. "Post-Exilic Hebrew Linguistic Developments in Esther: A Diachronic Approach." JETS 31, No. 2 (1988): 161-168.

Commentaries

• Paton, Lewis Bayles. Esther. ICC.
• Bertheau, Ernst. Die Bücher Esra, Nechemia und Ester.

Manuscripts & Versions

• Thompson, Herbert. A Coptic Palimpsest Containing Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Judith and Esther in the Sahidic Dialect.

Esther 1

• Himbaza, Innocent. "Entre culture et théologie, une lecture d'Esther 1." Etudes Théologiques et Religieuses 1 (2000).

Esther 2

Esther 3

Esther 4

Esther 5

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