The message of Esther : God present but unseen / David G. Firth.
Series: Bible speaks todayPublication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : Inter-Varsity Press, ©2010.Description: 140 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780830824335
- 0830824332
- 222/.907 22
- BS1375.53 .F57 2010
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| BS 1375 .P3 1964 A critical and exegetical commentary on the Book of Esther / | BS 1375.2 .S93 1997 Esther : a woman of strength & dignity : profiles in character / | BS 1375.3 .B35 1984 Esther : an introduction and commentary / | BS 1375.53 .F57 2010 The message of Esther : God present but unseen / | BS 1405.2 .K83 1981 The idea of biblical poetry : parallelism and its history / | BS 1405.2 .O28 1997 Hebrew verse structure | BS 1405.52 .E88 2005 Handbook on the Wisdom books and Psalms / |
Includes bibliographical references.
Some parties and their aftermath (1:1-22) -- Providence in the passive voice (2:1-23) -- Power and corruption in high places (3:1-15) -- Risking all (4:1-17) -- A tale of two banquets (5:1-14) -- A funny thing happened (6:1-13) -- An awkward dinner (6:14 -- 7:10) -- Revoking the irrevocable (8:1-17) -- Days of deliverance (9:1-19) -- Remembering deliverance (9:20-10:3).
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. --From publisher's description.
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