" 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.

Some modern scholars suggest the book of Esther to be a historical novella.

There are a number of reasons some scholars question the historicity of the book of Esther.

As noted by biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan, the book of Esther contains specific details regarding certain subject matter ( for example, Persian rule ) which are historically inaccurate.

Berlin quotes a series of scholars who suggest that the author of Esther did not mean for the book to be considered as a historical writing, but intentionally wrote it to be a historical novella.

The genre of novellas under which Esther falls was common during both the Persian and Hellenistic periods to which scholars have dated the book of Esther.

There are certain elements of the book of Esther that are historically accurate.

The story told in the book of Esther takes place during the rule of Ahasuerus, who has been identified as the fifth-century Persian king Xerxes ( 486-465 ).

However, according to Coogan, considerable historical inaccuracies remain throughout the text, supporting the view that the book of Esther is to be read as a historical novella which tells a story describing historical events but is not necessarily historical fact.

There are many classical Jewish readings of allegories into the book of Esther, mostly from Hasidic sources.

Esther is the only book of the Tanakh that is not represented among the Dead Sea scrolls.

* Esther, Book of: A Christian perspective of the book.

Jerome gathered all these additions together at the end of the book of Esther.

* In the book The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, the character Esther Greenwood meets a girl named Valerie in the asylum who has had a lobotomy.

Events mentioned in the Old Testament book of Esther are said to have occurred in Susa during either the Achaemenid or Sassanid periods.

Because the Lord promised to " blot out the name " of Amalek ( Exodus 17: 14 ), it is customary when the book of Esther is read at the Purim festival, for the audience to make noise whenever " Haman " is mentioned, so that his name is not heard.

Every book in the Hebrew Bible was represented in this discovery except Esther.

Very similar things can be said about the heroine of Brett's book, Esther Zepler.

The book is written from the perspectives of several people-Merlin Van Tornhout and Johnny Reeves, both members of the Ku Klux Klan, Sara Chickering, a farmer, Esther Hirsh, a six-year-old Jewish girl, Leonora Sutter, an African American girl, Iris Weaver, a resteraunteur, Harvey and Viola Pettibone, who are shop owners, Reynard Alexander, a newspaper editor, Fitzgerald Flitt, the doctor, and Percelle Johnson, the town constable.

Cosmetics are mentioned in the Old Testament — 2 Kings 9: 30 where Jezebel painted her eyelids — approximately 840 BC — and the book of Esther describes various beauty treatments as well.

' Hiding ' the meat inside serves as another reminder of the story of Esther – the only book of Hebrew Scriptures that does not contain a single reference to God who seems to hide behind the scenes.

" In the film, Joan attempts to get Esther to agree to a suicide pact, an incident which is not in the book.

Within the general framework of a ' ladder ', Climacus ' book falls into three sections.

In the Slavic tradition, with the addition of Zacchaeus Sunday, some regard the pre-Lenten period as lasting four weeks, but there are no liturgical indications that the week following the fifth Sunday before Lent ( whether preceded by Zacchaeus Sunday or otherwise ) is in any way Lenten, because Zacchaeus Sunday falls outside the Triodion, the liturgical book which governs the pre-Lenten period and Lent itself.

Another variation of the self-fulfilling prophecy can be seen in " The Tale of Attaf ", where Harun al-Rashid consults his library ( the House of Wisdom ), reads a random book, " falls to laughing and weeping and dismisses the faithful vizier " Ja ' far ibn Yahya from sight.

In the film the Witch-king's mount is largely responsible for the death of Théoden and his horse Snowmane, while in the book Snowmane is killed by a " black dart ", crushing Théoden as he falls.

Laurie is primarily a “ model good boy .” In the second book, Laurie falls in love with Jo and after her return from New York City, he offers to marry her.

John the Baptist points to the suffering Christ, whilst the blood-stream falls on the head of a portrait of Cranach, and Luther reads from his book the words, " The blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin.

The book focuses on the title character Sirena, a mermaid who falls in love with Philoctetes, during his stay on Lemnos.

Despite this lack of promotion, many critics did praise the book, and a large number of them seemed most affected by the character of Hurstwood, such as the New Haven Journal Courier, which proclaimed, “ One of the most affecting passages is where Hurstwood falls, ruined, disgraced ”.

The book itself, however, falls into five sections: —( a ) from Advent to Christmas ( cc.

He appears in numerous Angel novels as a member of Angel Investigations, but has a more prominent role in some ; in Stranger to the Sun he falls under a mystical slumber after receiving a mysterious package in the mail and becomes trapped in a nightmare, while Book of the Dead sees his love of reading get the better of him after being sucked into a book about the occult.

Another variation of the self-fulfilling prophecy can be seen in " The Tale of Attaf ", where Harun al-Rashid consults his library ( the House of Wisdom ), reads a random book, " falls to laughing and weeping and dismisses the faithful vizier " Ja ' far ibn Yahya from sight.

For example, Swahili nouns-toto ` child ' and-tu ` person ' fall into class 1, with singular prefix m-and plural prefix wa -, whilst-tabu ` book ' falls into class 7, with singular prefix ki-and plural prefix vi -.

A good example of differential integration and acculturation based on the immigrant manifesting one communicative modality and worldview while their host culture manifests a different one is to be found in Anne Fadiman's ( 1997 ) book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down about a Laotian girl who has immigrated to Merced, California and who falls ill. How her parents interpret her illness is very different from how her doctors interpret her illness.

" Kierkegaard puts it this way in another book, " We shall not say with the Preacher ( Ecclesiastes 4: 10 ), ‘ Woe to him who is alone ; if he falls, there is no one else to raise him up ,” for God is indeed still the one who both raises up and casts down, for the one who lives in association with people and the solitary one ; we shall not cry, “ Woe to him ,” but surely an “ Ah, that he might not go astray ,” because he is indeed alone in testing himself to see whether it is God ’ s call he is following or a voice of temptation, whether defiance and anger are not mixed embitteringly in his endeavor.

They do not perform much work, in the book and 1960 film when Weena falls into the river none of the Eloi help her.

* And with Him are the keys of the unseen treasures — none knows them but He ; and He knows what is in the land and the sea, and there falls not a leaf but He knows it, nor a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor anything green nor dry but ( it is all ) in a clear book.

In 1953, when she was twenty-five, her book of short stories, The Crown Princess, was published ; which was followed in the same year by her much better received novel, Hackenfeller's Ape ( in which a laboratory ape falls in love with a human being ).

In the process, Thornfield Hall is burned, Rochester's mad wife Bertha falls to her death, and Rochester himself is grievously injured ( in other words, she alters the ending of the book to match the actual ending to Jane Eyre ).

Unable to choose, he flips a coin in the privacy of his office, but it falls against a book and lands on edge.

Nick Montfort, in his book Twisty Little Passages ( ISBN 0-262-13436-5 ), suggests that the number was chosen not only because 69 is the common name of a sexual position, but also because in its written form 69, 105 falls naturally into two parts with an unusual relationship:

In the first book, he attempts to marry Violet, pretending it is the plot for his latest play, but the plan falls through when Violet uses her left hand to sign the marriage document.

The book tells the story of Julian West, a young American who, towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up one hundred and thirteen years later.

It had many elements of comedy absent from the book ; in the play, the Woggle-Bug has a passion for a dress made of a bright Wagnerian plaid and he instantly falls in love with whoever wears it next.