How the Book of Esther echoes through 17th-century Netherlands to this day
Visitors view “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt" exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, N.C. (Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Museum of Art)
RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — Since its inclusion in the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Esther has been embraced in different ways and in different times by Jews and Christians around the world.