Esther
Old Testament · History · 16 chapters
A Jewish queen in Persia risks her life to save her people from a plot of destruction, the origin of the feast of Purim.
FaithJusticeLiberation
Context
- Genre
- Court narrative
- Authorship
- Author unknown
- Setting
- Persia
- Original language
- Hebrew, with Greek additions
- Related texts
- 1 Samuel 15 · Agag, king of the AmalekitesJudith 8–16 · another deliverance by a woman