HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The Scroll of Esther may have been the original inspiration for the old joke said to summarize Jewish holidays: "They tried to kill us. But we won. Let's eat." Purim, which ...

The book of Esther is a part of both the Jewish and Christian religious canons, referenced in rabbinic literature in the second century A.D and believed to have been written in the early centuries B.C ...

The Book of Esther is an extravagant contrast with the Book of Exodus. Both are nail biters in terms of the fate of us Hebrews – as the Egyptians probably called us. In Exodus, our rescuer is G-d. In ...

ALBAWABA - An Israeli search and rescue team assisting Turkish authorities in saving people trapped under the rubble from a massive earthquake found something they were neither looking for, nor ...

Three Scrolls of Esther, damaged to varying degrees by fire, were recently discovered in an attic of an old house located in what was the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. The lone kosher scroll will be read ...

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has removed five Dead Sea Scrolls from exhibits after tests confirmed these fragments were not from ancient biblical scrolls but forgeries. From the first ...

Glories of the Gilded Age, at Chicago’s Driehaus Museum Audio By Carbonatix Museum officials made mistakes but acted honorably. The larger artifacts market could benefit from the lessons they learned.

In addition to ancient verses, a first-century boat ‘brings the Gospel scenes to life’ at the Museum of the Bible.

Even if you’re a serious student of the Bible, you might not know what the Book of Esther is doing there, in the Bible. Don’t worry though, nobody else knows either. Although it tells of near-tragedy, ...