In Jewish time, history often has a way of rhyming with the calendar. So when Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli air strike on the Shabbat ...

Author Betty Johansen, through her publishing company Wordsmith World, releases a first-person retelling of the biblical ...

Consider the book of Esther in the Bible’s Old Testament where the story of two women is expounded in the early chapters: Queen Vashti and Esther. Vashti was a queen married to King Xerxes, and as a ...

How the Book of Esther uses letters to safeguard Jewish identity and language during exile and empire.

The Book of Esther is the basis for the Jewish festival of Purim. Purim is celebrated in the spring and characterized by feasting at home, sending gifts of food to friends, and donating to those in ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Once upon a time, in the ancient Near East, there was a beautiful queen. Scribes wrote of ...