The Message of Esther
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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.
David G. Firth
David G. Firth is tutor in Old Testament and Academic Dean at Trinity College, Bristol. His previous Bible commentaries include 1 & 2 Samuel in the Apollos Old Testament Commentary series and The Message of Joshua in the Bible Speaks Today series of commentaries. He is also co-editor of Interpreting the Psalms, Interpreting Isaiah, Words and the Word, and Presence, Power and Promise.
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