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Selected Bibliography of the Book of Esther

By: David Malick 

                              Books
                                
Armerding, Carl. Esther. Chicago: Moody Press, 1955.
*Baldwin, Joyce G. Esther. The Tyndale Old Testament
     Commentaries. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1984.
Berg, Sandra Beth. The Book of Esther: Motifs, Themes and
     Structure. SBL Dissertation 44. Missoula, Mont.: Scholars
     Press, 1979.
Clines, David J. A. The Esther Scroll. Sheffield: Journal for the
     Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 30, 1984.
________. Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984.
Cohen, A. "Esther." In The Five Megilloth. London: Soncino Press,
     1946.
Fox, Michael. "The Structure of the Book of Esther." In Safer
     Isaac L. Seeligmann, 291-301. Edited by Alexander Rof‚.
     Jerusalem: Rubenstein, 1983.
Huey, F. B. Jr. "Esther." In The Expositor's Bible Commentary.
     Volume 4., 773-839. Grand Rapids: Regency Reference Library,
     1988.
Keil, C. F. "Ezra, Nehemiah." In I & II Kings, I & II Chronicles,
     Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther. Translated by Sophia Taylor.
     Commentary on the Old Testament. 10 vols. N.p.; reprint ed.,
     Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1982.
Martin, John A. "Esther." In The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An
     Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty: Old
     Testament 699-713. Edited by John F. Walvoord and Roy B.
     Zuck. Wheaton: Victor Books, 1985.
*Moore, C. A. Esther. The Anchor Bible. Garden City: Doubleday &
     Co., 1971.
________. Studies in the Book of Esther. New York: KTAV, 1982.
Stern, A. W. The Book of Esther. The Cambridge Bible for Schools
     and Colleges. Cambridge: University Press, 1907.
Thomas, Major W. Ian. If I Perish, I Perish. Grand Rapids:
     Zondervan Publishing House, n.d.
Whitcomb, John C. Esther: The Triumph of God's Sovereignty.
     Everyman's Bible Commentary. Chicago: Moody Press, 1979.
Wright, J. Stafford. "The Historicity of the Book of Esther." In
     New Perspectives on the Old Testament 37-47. Edited by J.
     Barton Payne. Waco: Word Books, 1970.

              Periodicals and Unpublished Materials
                                
Anderson, B. W. "The Place of the Book of Esther in the Christian
     Bible." Journal of Religion 30 (1950): 32-43.
Derickson, Gary W. "An Argument of Esther." Paper submitted for
     the course 372 Seminar in Old Testament Historical
     Literature, Spring 1989.
Gordis, R. "Religion, Wisdom and History in the Book of Esther: A
     New Solution to an Ancient Crux." Journal of Biblical
     Literature 100 (1981): 359-88.
Jones, B. W. "Two Misconceptions about the Book of Esther."
     Catholic Biblical Quarterly 39 (1977): 171-181.
Loader, J. A. "Esther as a Novel with Different Levels of
     Meaning." Zeitschrift fr die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
     90 (1978): 417-21.
Moore, C. A. "Archaeology and the Book of Esther." Biblical
     Archaeologist 38 (1975): 62-72.
Shea, William H. "Esther and History." AUSS 14 (1976): 227-46.
Talmon, S. "Wisdom in the Book of Esther." Vetus Testamentum 13
     (1963): 419-55.
Townsend,  Jeffrey  L.  "The Book of Esther."  Unpublished  class
     notes  in  302 Old Testament History II. Dallas  Theological
     Seminary, Fall 1983.

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