OTL-Esther (Old Testament Library)
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: February 3, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780664228873
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).