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Commentaries. Leicester: IVP, 1984. Pbk. ISBN: 0851118402. {Amazon.com} [Read Alan Millard's Review pdf ] |
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 Mervin Breneman, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther. The New American Commentary. Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing Group, 1993. ISBN: 9781433676291. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly] |
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J.A. Clines, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther. New Century Bible. Sheffield
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W.J. Fuerst, The Books of Ruth,
Esther, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Lamentations. Cambridge Bible
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Carl Friedrich Keil [1807-1888] & Franz Delitzsch [1813-1890], Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1878. Hbk. pp.380. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain] |
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![Lewis Bayles Paton [1864-1932], A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Esther](images/books7/esther-icc_paton-tb.jpg) Lewis Bayles Paton [1864-1932], A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Esther. The International Critical Commentary. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1908. Hbk. pp.339. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain] |
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 Debra Reid, Esther. Tyndale Old Testament Commentary. London: IVP, 2015. ISBN: 9781783592395. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly] |
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 Andrew J. Schmutzer & Douglas J.E. Nykolaishen, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther. Teach the Text Commentary Series. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2018. ISBN: 9781493412648. 336. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly] |
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Charles Simeon, Horae Homileticae or Discourses Digested Into One Continued Series and Forming a Commentary, Upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament, Vol. 4: First of Chronicles to Job, 6th edn. London: Henry G., Bohn, 1844. pp.297-307. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain] |
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Robert Sinker [1838-1913], "Esther," Charles John Ellicott [1819-1905], editor, An Old Testament commentary for English Readers various writers, Vol. 3. London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1883. Hbk. pp.511-529. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain] |
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![Esther - Annesley William Streane [1844-1915], The Book of Esther. Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges](images/books7/esther-cbfsc_streane-tb.jpg) Annesley William Streane [1844-1915], The Book of Esther. Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907. Hbk. pp.80. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain] |
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B.W. Anderson, "The Place of Esther in
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Anonymous, "A New Clue in the Dating of
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Iain Duguid, "But did they Live Happily Ever After? The Eschatology of the Book of Esther," Westminster Theological Journal 68.1 (Spring 2006): 85-98. |
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Robert Gordis [1908-1992], "Religion, wisdom and history in the Book of Esther - a new solution to an ancient crux," Journal of Biblical Literature 100.3 (Sept. 1981): 359-388. pdf [Reproduced by kind permission of the copyright holder] |
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 Jonathan Grossman, Esther. The Outer Narrative and the Hidden Reading. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2011.ISBN: 9781575066585. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly] |
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W.W. Hallo, "The First Purim," Biblical Archaeologist 46 (1983): 19-26. |
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Charles D. Harvey, "Probing Moral Ambiguity: Grappling with Ethical Portraits in the Hebrew Story of Esther," Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 2.3 (Fall 1998): 56-77. |
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 Else K. Holt, Narrative and Other Readings in the Book of Esther. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. ISBN: 9780567697622. pp.192. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly] |
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B.W. Jones, "Two Misconceptions about
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Ronald
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![Thomas Witton Davies [1851-1923], Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther. The Century Bible](images/books9/ezra-nehemiah_century-bible_davies-tb.jpg)
Thomas Witton Davies [1851-1923], Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther. The Century Bible. Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C.Jack, n.d. Hbk. pp.384. 
Michael V. Fox, Character and Ideology in
the Book of Esther, 2nd edn. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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Leonard Greenspoon & Sidnie White Crawford, eds., The Book of Esther in Modern Research. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 9780826438683. pp.370. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly]![Archibald H. Sayce [1845-1933], An Introduction to the Books of Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther, 5th edn.](images/books7/ezra-nehemiah-esther_sayce-tb.jpg)
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