Esther
1. The Canonicity of Esther
2. Its Authorship
3. Its Date
4. Its Contents
5. The Greek Additions
6. The Attacks upon the Book
7. Some of the Objections
8. Confirmations of the Book
This book completes the historical books of the Old
Testament. The conjunction "w" (waw = and), with which it
begins, is significant. It shows that the book ...
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one of the latest of the canonical books of Scripture,
having been written late in the reign of Xerxes, or early in
that of his son Artaxerxes Longimanus (B.C. 444, 434). The
author is not known. The book of Esther is placed among the
hagiographa by the Jews, and in that first portion of them
which they call "the five rolls." It is written on ...
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The authorship of this book is unknown. It must have been
obviously written after the death of Ahasuerus (the
Xerxes of
the Greeks), which took place B.C. 465. The minute
and
particular account also given of many historical
details makes
it probable that the writer was contemporary with
Mordecai and
Esther. Hence we may conclude that the b...
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The Book of Esther describes in the same year, the 3rd, the
lavish feasting during which Vashti was deposed, 488 B.C. In
his 7th year the battles of Plataea and Mycale, according to
secular history, drove Xerxes in fright from Sardis to Susa.
So, in Scripture, it was not until the tenth month of this
7th year that Esther was made queen. The lo...
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