Esther

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Introductions

	Sandra B. Berg, The Book of Esther: Motifs, Themes, and Structure. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 44. Missoula: Scholars, 1979. Pbk. ISBN: 0891302794. {Amazon.com}
	E. Bickerman, Four Strange Books of the Bible. Shocken, 1967.
	Michael V. Fox, Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther, 2nd edn. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001. Pbk. ISBN: 0802848818. pp.352. {CBD} {Amazon.com}

Commentaries

	Joyce G. Baldwin, Esther, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries. Leicester: IVP, 1984. Pbk. ISBN: 0851118402. {CBD} {Amazon.com}
	David J.A. Clines, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther. New Century Bible. Sheffield Academic Press, 1984. Pbk. ISBN: 0551011181. pp.362. {Amazon.com}
	R..J. Coggins & S.P. Re'emi, Nahum, Obadiah, Esther: Israel Among the Nations. International Theological Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985. Pbk. ISBN: 0802800483. pp.140. {CBD} {Amazon.com}
	W.J. Fuerst, The Books of Ruth, Esther, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Lamentations. Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge, 1975. pp.267.
	Karen H. Jobes, Esther. NIV Application Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999. Hbk. ISBN: 0310206723. pp.256. {CBD} {Amazon.com}
	Knute Larson, Kathy Dahlen & Max Anders, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther. Holman Old Testament Commentary. Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005. Hbk. ISBN: 0805494693. pp.400. {CBD} {Amazon.com}
	Jon Douglas Levenson, Esther. Old Testament Library. Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997. Hbk. ISBN: 0664220932. pp.152. {CBD} {Amazon.com}
	J.G. McConville, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther. Daily Study Bible. Westminster, 1985. Pbk. ISBN: 0664245838. pp.197. {CBD} {Amazon.com}
	Carey A. Moore, Daniel, Esther, and Jeremiah: The Additions . The Anchor Bible, Vol. 44. New York: Doubleday, 1971. Hbk. ISBN: 0385047029. pp.118. {CBD} {Amazon.com}
	Roland Edmund Murphy, Wisdom Literature: Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Canticles, Ecclesiastes, and Esther. Forms of Old Testament Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981. Pbk. ISBN: 0802818773. pp.185. {Amazon.com}
	Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Bob Utley)

Other Subjects

	B.W. Anderson, "The Place of Esther in the Christian Bible," Journal of Religion 30 (1950): 32-43.
	Anonymous, "A New Clue in the Dating of the Composition of the Book of Esther," Vetus Testamentum 50.4 (2000): 561-565. [Abstract]
	Sandra Beth Berg, Book of Esther: Motifs, Themes and Structure. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1982. Pbk. ISBN: 0891302794. pp.219. {Amazon.com}
	Ronald L. Bergey, "Post-Exilic Hebrew Linguistic Developments In Esther: A Diachronic Approach," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 31.2 (1988): 161-168.
	Adele Berlin, "The Book of Esther and Ancient Storytelling," Journal of Biblical Literature 120.1 (2001): 3-14.
	Frederic W. Bush, "The Book of Esther: Opus non gratum in the Christian Canon," Bulletin for Biblical Research 8 (1998): 39-54.
	David J.A. Clines, The Esther Scroll. Journal for Old Testament Studies Supplement 30. Sheffield: JSOT, 1984. Pbk. ISBN: 0905774671. pp.260. {Amazon.com}
	Sidnie White Crawford & Leonard J. Greenspoon, eds., The Book of Esther in Modern Research. Sheffield: Continuum International Publishing Group - Sheffield Academic Press, 2003. Hbk. ISBN: 082646663X. pp.370. {Amazon.com}
	A.D. Friedberg & V. DeCaen, "Dating the Composition of the Book of Esther, A Response to Larsson," Vetus Testamentum 53.3 (2003): 427-429.
	R. Gordis, "Religion, Wisdom and History in the Book of Esther," Journal of Biblical Literature 100 (1981): 359-88.
	Robert Gordis, "Studies in the Esther Narrative," Journal of Biblical Literature 95 (1976): 43-58.
	Robert Gordis, "Religion, Wisdom and History in the Book of Esther," Journal of Biblical Literature 100 (1981): 359-88.
	W.W. Hallo, "The First Purim," Biblical Archaeologist 46 (1983): 19-26.
	Charles D. Harvey, "Probing Moral Ambiguity: Grappling with Ethical Portraits in the Hebrew Story of Esther," The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 2.3 (Fall 1998): 56-77.
	B.W. Jones, "Two Misconceptions about the Book of Esther," Catholic Bibkical Quarterly 39 (1977): 171-81.
	B.W. Jones, "The So-Called Appendix to the Book of Esther," Semitics 6 (1978): 36-43.
	Robert J. Littman, "The Religious Policy of Xerxes and the Book of Esther," Jewish Quarterly Review 65 (January 1975): 145-55.
	J.A. Loader, "Esther as a Novel with Different Levels of Meaning," Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 90 (1978): 417-21.
	Alan R. Millard, "Persian Names in Esther and the Reliability of the Hebrew Text," Journal of Biblical Literature 96 (1977): 481-88.
	C.A. Moore, "Archaeology and the Book of Esther," Biblical Archaeologist 38 (1975): 62-79.
	Myles Nolan, "Esther in the New Testament," Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association 15 (1992): 60-65.
	Ronald W. Pierce, "The Politics of Esther and Mordecai: Courage or Compromise?" Bulletin for Biblical Research 2 (1992): 75-89.
	W.H. Shea, "Esther and History," Andrews University Seminary Studies 14 (1976): 227-46.
	Shemaryahu Talmon, "'Wisdom' in the Book of Esther," Vetus Testamentum 13 (1963): 419-55.
	T.C.G. Thornton, "The Crucifixion of Haman and the Scandal of the Cross," Journal of Theological Studies 37 (1986): 419-26.
	William Vischer, "The Book of Esther," Evangelical Quarterly 11 (January 1939): 3-21.
	Michael G. Wechsler, "Shadow and Fulfillment in the Book of Esther," Bibliotheca Sacra 154: 615 (1997): 275-284.
	J .Stafford Wright, "The Historicity of the Book of Esther," John Barton Payne, ed. New Perspectives on the Old Testament. Word, 1970. Hbk. pp.37-47.
	Edwin M. Yamauchi, "Archaeological Backgrounds of the Exilic and Postexilic Era. Part 2: The Archaeological Background of Esther," Bibliotheca Sacra 137: 546 (1980): 99-112.
	R. Zadok, "On the Historical Background of the Book of Esther," Bible Notes 24 (1984): 18-23.