Category Archive: Bible - OT - Esther



Hidden Providence - December 13, 2005
Luther was famously hostile to the book of Esther. Luther was also famously enamoured of the idea of the Deus absconditus, the hidden God. These positions are inconsistent: No book of the Bible better narrates the power and providence of...

The Book of Mordecai - December 05, 2005
Grading several papers on Esther, it occurs to me that the book is more about Mordecai's exalation than about Esther. Esther's exalation to queen is part of the means by which Mordecai and the Jews are ultimately saved, and the...

Esther and Jerusalem - March 22, 2004
Gary Demar suggests in a study of Zechariah 12 that the prophecy describes the events that are recorded in the book of Esther. This is an interesting and plausiable thesis, but one particular point is especially stimulating: He suggests that...

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