The complete online text of Esther by Henry Adams.

The American historian and author Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) lived in an era of remarkable change and recorded the implications of the period with great perception. He is best known for "Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres" and "The Education of Henry Ada...

No American historian of the nineteenth century has so enchanted, irritated, and impressed his contemporaries and successors as Henry Brooks Adams. He was and is his country's greatest historian, and its most elusive. His achievement was various: he help...

Henry Adams owes his popular reputation to a single work, The Education of Henry Adams. That book, which was privately printed in 1907 but not commercially published until just after the author's death in 1918, quickly made Adams famous, as he was posthu...

For more than 2,500 years, Jews have been telling their faith's sacred stories, in written words on parchment and the page and through the oral tradition of rabbinical debate. Now they're trying something new: a graphic novel. The Jewish Publication Society, a...

Esther by Linda M.Day Ablngdon Old Testament Commentaries. Ablngdon, Nashville, 2005. 177 pp. $24.00. ISBN 0-687-49792-2. LINDA DAY'S CLOSE ANALYSIS of the text of Esther is preceded by an introduction that reviews literary genre, possible historical context, and theological concerns of this short...