Esther (Old Testament Library)
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: May 1, 1997
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780334026853
Subjects: Christianity; Books of the Old Testament; Biblical concordances & commentaries
First sentence: Chapter A introduces one of the heroes of the tale (vv. 1-3), tells of a dream of his that foreshadows the crucial action of the subsequent narrative in a highly symbolic way (vv. 4-11), and closes with an account of his reward by the king for having exposed an assassination plot on the part of two courtiers (vv. 12-17).