In Roman Catholic and Orthodox Old Testaments, the Book of Tobit (or Tobias) and Judith come before Esther. These books, which tell stories of heroism and divine provision among exiled Jews, are ...

The Old Testament books are grouped in the following ... to the order of events in time which they narrate (Genesis to Esther); 2) Didactic or sapiential or moral books, which are so called ...

In the Old Testament is a story of racism and how a brave woman and man intervened with God’s help to stop the evil. Esther was a young Jew who lived in Susa, the city of King Ahasuerus, who ruled ...