Esther
- Fiction
- Publisher: Bethany House (Baker Publishing Group)
- Published: 2015
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Publisher's Description
When an ambitious tyrant threatens genocide against the Jews, an inexperienced young queen must take a stand for her people. When Xerxes, king of Persia, issues a call for beautiful young women, Hadassah, a Jewish orphan living in Susa, is forcibly taken to the palace of the pagan ruler. After months of preparation, the girl known to the Persians as Esther wins the king's heart and a queen's crown. But because her situation is uncertain, she keeps her ethnic identity a secret until she learns that an evil and ambitious man has won the king's permission to exterminate all Jews--young and old, powerful and helpless. Purposely violating an ancient Persian law, she risks her life in order to save her people...and bind her husband's heart.
Endorsements (2)
““The Hebrew text has two words that are typically used to describe personal appearance. One, yapeh, is rather mild and means ‘good looking.’ The other, tob, when applied to women’s looks, conveys sensual appeal. This woman is so beautiful that she arouses the desire of men who see her.”
“Beauty does not always benefit the woman who possesses it. On occasion it betrays her, and at other times it endangers her, even to the point of death. These novels—Esther, and the upcoming Bathsheba and Delilah—are the stories of three tob women. The light that lies In woman’s eyes Has been my heart’s undoing.”
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