Sunday School Teacher's Guide - this is just one possible lesson plan. Visit theEsther Bible lesson planfor further ideas to supplement this. Introduction: This last lesson on women of the Old Testament studies the faith, goodness, devotion and courage of Esther. She is an important person i...
[15] This leads us back to the question of why this story has been included in the Bible despite the lack of explicit reference to God or religion more generally. Viewing the story as a “Diaspora story” can help to answer this question.[16] The book of Esther was the last of the...
For that reason, many have said that since God doesn’t appear in the book, it shouldn’t be in the Bible. But we have seen as we have worked our way through that the main characters of the book were living in a time when many of them were asking, “Where is God?” and so it...