Esther

Who

Anonymous.

When

Set in the Persian court of Xerxes, 486 to 465 BC.

What it is

A Jewish girl becomes queen and is asked to risk everything to stop the extermination of her people.

What to watch for

God is never mentioned once in the whole book. That is not an accident, and it is the thing to read it for.

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”Esther 4:14