Esther John was born Qamar Zia, on 14th October 1929, one of seven children. As a child she attended a government school and, after the age of seventeen, a Christian school. There she was profoundly ...

As mentioned, the Book of Esther is the last book included by the rabbis in the cannon. Keep in mind that the Jewish bookshelf at the time had many, many more books than what we find in the Bible.

Esther searched online for her great-grandfather, Abraham Rantzen, and found that he appeared in the Court of Bankruptcy several times in the late 1860s. This showed that he was clearly struggling ...

Others like Gregory Nazianzen also excluded Esther from the Bible [JBC, p. 522]. Jerome while favoring the shorter canon, several times in his writings cited Books from the larger canon as Scripture.

Prince was the Bible study secretary of their Christian union fellowship and Esther was a new Christian, having just gotten born again the previous year. 1985, was Prince's final school year and ...