TY  - BOOK
AU  - Firth,David G
TI  - The message of Esther: God present but unseen 
T2  - The Bible speaks today
SN  - 9780830824335
AV  - BS1375.F527.M477 2010 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Downers Grove, Illinois
PB  - Inter-Varsity Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Esther
KW  - Commentaries
N1  - 1; Some parties and their aftermath (1:1-22) --; Providence in the passive voice (2:1-23) --; Power and corruption in high places (3:1-15) --; Risking all (4:1-17) --; A tale of two banquets (5:1-14) --; A funny thing happened (6:1-13) --; An awkward dinner (6:14 --; 7:10) --; Revoking the irrevocable (8:1-17) --; Days of deliverance (9:1-19) --; Remembering deliverance (9:20-10:3); 2
N2  - 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. --From publisher's description
ER  -