Well, not totally surprised. Esther’s story has been used as a symbol for centuries, as authors Elizabeth Dias and Ruth ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The book of Esther is one of the most challenging books in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, not only because of the difficulty of ...

Many of my friends and family were so caught up in this week’s election that it seems that half of them are going to suffer ...

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy ... [JBC] The Jerome Biblical Commentary (Englewood Cliffs, NJ; Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968), Vol. II, Chap. 67.

It was my first year in the rabbinate. Ron, a local Minister I had just met, asked me: “When did you receive your calling?” I ...

Alarmed by abortion and transgender rights, Christian activists are invoking the Old Testament story of Esther, the Jewish orphan who bravely saved her people. By Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham ...

Charismatic 'prophets' have long compared Trump to Bible characters to justify their support for the former president. But ...

Details about the new Orphan film are scarce at this time, but it is officially moving forward, continuing the story of Esther. “Dark Castle is excited to announce another terrifying chapter in ...

Few figures in contemporary art currently stand out as much as Esther Mahlangu. With her customary bright geometric ...

A direct line runs from Greene to the vicious antisemitic attacks targeting Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer and federal ... of Brandeis University, in his book “A History of the Jews.” ...