A show argues that the Jewish tale was interpreted as a symbol of liberation from Spanish rule in 17th-century Dutch society.

Others like Gregory Nazianzen also excluded Esther from the Bible [JBC, p. 522]. Jerome while favoring the shorter canon, several times in his writings cited Books from the larger canon as Scripture.

Back to the first books in the Bible: They tell us where we come from ... Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther tell us something of the period of exile to come, which we learn more about later in prophets ...

An exhibition dedicated to Purim, one of the most joyful holidays of the Jewish calendar and especially to its Queen Esther. At the Meis in Ferrara until June 15, 2025 ...

More than the miracles, or the crossing of the Red Sea, or the revelation of God in the desert (His presence was already ...

Theologically, Esther poses a puzzle for religious readers of the Bible. Apart from Song of Songs, it is the only book of the Bible that fails to mention divine involvement, and the Jewish ...

Project Esther is named after a figure, Queen Esther. What’s Queen Esther’s story? The Book of Esther is a text the Jews read once a year on the holiday of Purim. In the story, Queen Esther ...

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In what is surely one of our tradition’s most curious practices, some bake what is called “schlissel challah” the first ...

About forty men were engaged in the writing of the Bible, during a period of about 1600 years -- that is, from 1500 B.C. to ...

At least six-and-a-half of The Ten Commandments are broken in the movie The Ten Commandments, the Cecil B. DeMille/Charlton ...