The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

The Hebrew Bible’s Book of Esther, which recounts the story of Purim, does not directly mention God. “There was not splitting of the sea or water turning into blood,” Lipskier said.

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Esther has said she doesn't want to fight with me. Fighting with Esther has never been my intention, nor is it my intention now. All I want is to set the record straight about my mother.

Others like Gregory Nazianzen also excluded Esther from the Bible [JBC, p. 522]. Jerome while favoring the shorter canon, several times in his writings cited Books from the larger canon as Scripture.