The Message of Esther
- ISBN-10
- 0830882146
- ISBN-13
- 9780830882144
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-09-27
- Publisher
- InterVarsity Press
- Author
- David G. Firth
Description
In this volume in the Bible Speaks Today commentary series, David Firth explores this paradoxically important book and its implications for our own contemporary context, where the reality of God's presence is experienced against a backdrop of God's relative anonymity and seeming absence.
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