The Message of Esther
The Message of Esther
Non-technical
Evangelical

The Message of Esther

in Bible Speaks Today

by David G. Firth

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Pages 240
Publisher Inter-Varsity Press
Published 9/3/2010
ISBN-13 9780830824335
By any assessment, Esther is a rather strange book to find in the Bible. Not only is it, along with Daniel, the only book of the Bible to be set entirely outside of the Promised Land, it also shows no interest in that land. More than that, Esther is the only book in the Bible which definitely does not mention God. None of this should be taken as meaning that the book has no theological intention--on the contrary it has a developed theology, but it is a theology which operates precisely because it does not mention God directly. In this volume in the Bible Speaks Today commentary series, David Firth explores this paradoxically important book and its implications for our own contemporary context, where the reality of God s presence is experienced against a backdrop of God s relative anonymity and seeming absence.

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Mark Heath Mark Heath July 23, 2010
Good exposition of Esther from an evangelical perspective, drawing out lessons of remaining faithful to God in a sometimes antagonistic culture [Full Review]