They are identical except that Athanasius includes the Book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah and places the Book of Esther among the " 7 books not in the canon but to be read " along with the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach ( Ecclesiasticus ), Judith, Tobit, the Didache, and the Shepherd of Hermas.

" The only other Biblical book bearing the name of a woman is the Book of Esther.

The Book of Esther is a book in the Ketuvim (" writings "), the third section of the Jewish Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) and is part of the Christian Old Testament.

The biblical Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of Persia.

The opening chapter of a hand-written scroll of the Book of Esther, with reader's pointer

* The primary source relating to the origin of Purim is the Megillat Esther ( Book of Esther ), which became the last of the 24 books of the Tanakh to be canonized by the Sages of the Great Assembly.

* The Greek Book of Esther, included in the Septuagint, is a retelling of the events of the Hebrew Book of Esther rather than a translation and records additional traditions, in particular the identification of Ahasuerus with Artaxerxes and details of various letters.

" If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther.

In her article “ The Book of Esther and Ancient Storytelling ,” biblical scholar Adele Berlin discusses the reasoning behind scholarly concern of the historicity of Esther.

Bar-Hebraeus identified Ahasuerus explicitly as Artaxerxes II ; however, the names are not necessarily equivalent: Hebrew has a form of the name Artaxerxes distinct from Ahasuerus, and a direct Greek rendering of Ahasuerus is used by both Josephus and the Septuagint for occurrences of the name outside the Book of Esther.

Based on the view that the Ahasuerus of the Book of Tobit is identical with that of the Book of Esther, some have also identified him as Nebuchadnezzar's ally Cyaxares ( ruled 625 – 585 BCE ).

Though God is never explicitly mentioned in the Book of Esther, some Christians believe that his influence during the story is implied.

While modern Roman Catholic scholars openly recognize the Greek additions as clearly being additions to the text, the Book of Esther is used twice in commonly used sections of the Catholic Lectionary.

The additions are specifically listed in the Thirty-Nine Articles, Article VI, of the Church of England: " The rest of the Book of Esther ".

In 2012, a graphic adaptation of the Book of Esther was illustrated by J. T. Waldman and appeared in volume one of The Graphic Canon, edited by Russ Kick and published by Seven Stories Press.

A musical stage adaptation of the Book of Esther, written by Bruce Greer and Keith Ferguson, is currently in development with Dallas Summer Musicals.

** The Book of Esther Full text, KJV, ( also available at Arabic )

The Book of Hiding: Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther.

The first Book of Samuel begins with a description of the prophet Samuel's birth and of how God called to him as a boy.

Although much of Chinese philosophy begins in the Warring States period, elements of Chinese philosophy have existed for several thousand years ; some can be found in the Yi Jing ( the Book of Changes ), an ancient compendium of divination, which dates back to at least 672 BCE.

The Gospel of Matthew begins with the words " The Book of Genealogy Greek, " Genesis " of Jesus Christ ", deliberately echoing the first words of the Old Testament in Greek.

The Gamemaster Book begins with technical essays on the Ringworld, from physical construction, to life on the ring, with diagrams.

* J. R. R. Tolkien begins writing The Book of Lost Tales ( the first version of The Silmarillion ); thus Middle-earth is first chronicled this year.

** Aleister Crowley begins writing Liber Al vel Legis, better known as The Book of the Law, a text central to Thelema.

During this time he begins writing his influential Book of Optics.

In the Book of Concord, Article XXIV (" Of the Mass ") of the Augsburg Confession ( 1530 ) begins thus: " Falsely are our churches accused of abolishing the Mass ; for the Mass is retained among us, and celebrated with the highest reverence.

The word " locust " has, at times, been employed controversially in English translations of Ancient Greek and Latin natural histories, as well as of Hebrew and Greek Bibles ; such ambiguous renderings prompted the 17th-century polymath Thomas Browne to include in the Fifth Book of his Pseudodoxia Epidemica an essay entitled Of the Picture of a Grasshopper, it begins:

The name would mean " desired " or " lovely ", if derived from the same root as Eros, as Apollonius of Rhodes playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica.

Diomedes ' aristeia (" excellence "— the great deeds of a hero ) begins in Book V and continues in Book VI.

Book V begins with Athena, the war-like goddess of wisdom putting valour into the heart of her champion warrior.

As Book heals, he begins to develop feelings for Rachel.

The Bible begins with the Book of Genesis, in which God creates the world, including the first human, a man named Adam, in six days.

Tolkien begins writing The Book of Lost Tales ( the first version of The Silmarillion ); thus Middle-earth is first chronicled.

* Washington Irving begins publishing The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon in seven installments — the first of which includes " Rip Van Winkle " and the last of which includes " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow "— simultaneously in the United States and England.

2005: Eat, Drink & Be Literary begins first season in partnership with the National Book Awards in BAMcafé

* Roger Morrice begins his Entring Book.

* Miyamoto Musashi begins dictating The Book of Five Rings ( Go Rin No Sho ).

* Francis Tregian the Younger is imprisoned for his Catholic sympathies, and begins copying out the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

Markandeya's narration of the story begins at Book III ( Varna Parva ), Section 271 of the Mahabharata.

* 1 ) MS. Cotton Appendix XLVI Part I ( available online at: is the diary for 28 May 1583 – 15 August 1584 inclusive: The Sixth ( and Sacred ) Parallel Book of the Mysteries ( not to be confused with " The Sixth and Sacred Book of the Mysteries ", which is part of Liber Logaeth-see above ) and " The Seventh Book of the Mysteries " ( Kraków ), beginning where A True and Faithful Relation begins.

But a tossing of coins, with perhaps the added safeguard of reference to the oracles of the I Ching, the Chinese Book Of Changes, dictates the handling of the chosen materials.

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

And one day, on her own, his mother came home with a present entitled The Book of the Dead, which she suspected Richard would enjoy.

As for The Book of the Dead, it along with his other books on religion had been incarcerated in a furnace in the basement of the building in which he had lived in New York.

F. Rahman, Avicenna's Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.

Due to the dangers the afterlife posed, the Book of the Dead was placed in the tomb with the body as well as food, jewellery, and ' curses '.

The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, for instance, refers to Abrasax as an Aeon dwelling with Sophia and other Aeons of the Pleroma in the light of the luminary Eleleth.

The war of Clovis with the Alemanni forms the setting for the conversion of Clovis, briefly treated by Gregory of Tours ( Book II. 31 ) Subsequently the Alemanni formed part of the Frankish dominions and were governed by a Frankish duke.

In Book 9, Agamemnon and the other Mycenaean chiefs send Ajax, Odysseus and Phoenix to the tent of Achilles in an attempt to reconcile with the great warrior and induce him to return to the fight.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993 ( tied with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis ).

A Fire Upon the Deep shared the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel with Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis.

Since Luke-Acts was originally a single work, it is important to note that the purpose of Acts is normally examined in conjunction with the Book of Luke.

According to the Book of Exodus, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

A Gospel Book believed to be directly associated with St. Augstine's mission survives in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, England.

After the last anointing, the Gospel Book is opened and placed with the writing down upon the head of the one who was anointed, and the senior priest reads the " Prayer of the Gospel ".

* 1829 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.

In accordance with this, other civilizations, including more " successful " ones, should exist an infinite number of times on the " preceding " and the " following " pages of the Book of the Universe.

His later life was spent in various parts of the Islamic world, in Aleppo with its governor Sayf ad-Dawlah ( to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs ), in Ray with the Buwayhid vizier Ibn ' Abbad, and elsewhere.

Kitab al-Aghani ( Book of Songs ), a collection of poems and songs with the stories of the composers and singers in many volumes from the oldest epoch of Arabic literature down to the 9th cent.

The Devil, death, hell, and those not found written in the Book of Life are then thrown into Gehenna ( the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone ).