Book of Esther

The Book of Esther and the Typology of Female Transfiguration in American Literature centers primarily on informed close readings and careful analysis of literary works by nineteenth- century US authors Margaret Fuller (Woman in the Nineteenth Century); Nathaniel Hawthorne ("Ethan Brand," "Legends of the Province House," The Scarlet Letter, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun); and Henry Adams (Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, and The Education of Henry Adams).

In addition, the celebration will feature a child-friendly reading of the Book of Esther, known in Hebrew as the Megillah.

Although God's name is never mentioned in the book of Esther, we can see Him working behind the scenes to save His people.

The tale of Purim is told in the Book of Esther, known as the Megillah, and ends with Haman's hanging and the Jewish people being saved. The term Purim refers to the lottery system that Haman used to decide the day the massacre would be on. 

(7) This of course leads to a radically different understanding of the background of events in the Book of Esther, either taking place before the Second Temple was completed in the rabbinic view, or years after the Second Temple was built in the historical approach.

Beloved by Jews, the biblical book of Esther has had a checkered history of reception among the gentiles.

The senator referenced the book of Esther and spoke Hebrew in his concluding remarks.

By the time Rabbi Joseph Caro wrote the seminal codification of Jewish law Shulchan Aruch around 1565, the vegetable course was known as karpas, which was Persian for "fine cotton" and first surfaced in a Jewish text in the Book of Esther, where it was used to describe wall hangings in the king's palace.

The most compelling lesson in the stational liturgy came from the Vulgate version of the Old Testament Book of Esther. The Vulgate was the Latin translation of the most celebrated and oldest complete Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, the Septuagint that Christ and his apostles used frequently.

By choosing a heroine, Zangwill taps into traditional ideas of Jewish femininity and also alludes to the Bible's Book of Esther. Not only is Esther Ansell a realist novelist, but she also becomes a potential savior of her people.

She used readings from the Book of Esther in the Old Testament and Paul's letters from the New Testament to show how as Christians we should not be afraid to speak out when the right moment comes and how we should find the right way to speak out.

Purim commemorates the story of the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire as told in the book of Esther. It's a story that speaks to me personally at a bunch of different levels, the lowest of which is the caution of Haman.

When Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, visited Washington last week on the eve of the Purim holiday, he gave Barack Obama, the US president, what he considered a symbolic gift - a copy of the old testament book of Esther. Netanyahu called it "background reading on Iran", since its story concerns relations with Jews in the Persian empire some 2,500 years ago.

In some cases, he would be remembered for generations, like the mythical Mordecai in the Book of Esther.