The Message of Esther: God Present But Unseen (Bible Speaks Today) Firth, David G. 9780830824335

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  • 140 Pages
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • Publication Date: August 2010
  • ISBN: SFIRTHDAGMESSAGEOFESTHERGODPR9780830824335

The Message of Esther: God Present But Unseen (Bible Speaks Today)

Firth, David G.

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By any assessment, Esther is a rather strange book to find in the Bible. Not only is it, along with Daniel, the only book of the Bible to be set entirely outside of the Promised Land, it also shows no interest in that land. More than that, Esther is the only book in the Bible which definitely does not mention God. None of this should be taken as meaning that the book has no theological intention--on the contrary it has a developed theology, but it is a theology which operates precisely because it does not mention God directly.

In this volume in the Bible Speaks Today commentary series, David Firth explores this paradoxically important book and its implications for our own contemporary context, where the reality of God's presence is experienced against a backdrop of God's relative anonymity and seeming absence.

About the Author

David G. Firth is director of research and lecturer in Old Testament at St. John's College in Nottingham, England. He is the author of 1 & 2 Samuel (Apollos Old Testament Commentary) and The Message of Esther, and coeditor of Interpreting Deuteronomy, Interpreting the Psalms, Interpreting Isaiah, and Words & the Word.
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Publisher's Description

By any assessment, Esther is a rather strange book to find in the Bible. Not only is it, along with Daniel, the only book of the Bible to be set entirely outside of the Promised Land, it also shows no interest in that land. More than that, Esther is the only book in the Bible which definitely does not mention God. None of this should be taken as meaning that the book has no theological intention--on the contrary it has a developed theology, but it is a theology which operates precisely because it does not mention God directly.

In this volume in the Bible Speaks Today commentary series, David Firth explores this paradoxically important book and its implications for our own contemporary context, where the reality of God's presence is experienced against a backdrop of God's relative anonymity and seeming absence.

About the Author

David G. Firth is director of research and lecturer in Old Testament at St. John's College in Nottingham, England. He is the author of 1 & 2 Samuel (Apollos Old Testament Commentary) and The Message of Esther, and coeditor of Interpreting Deuteronomy, Interpreting the Psalms, Interpreting Isaiah, and Words & the Word.
  • Cover Type:
  • 140 Pages
  • Publisher: InterVarsity Press
  • Publication Date: August 2010
  • ISBN: SFIRTHDAGMESSAGEOFESTHERGODPR9780830824335