Esther: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text

by Robert D. Holmstedt, John Screnock

This handbook in the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible series provides students of Hebrew with the translation of Esther paired with an exhaustive word by word morphological analysis of the text. Through careful syntactic and textual investigation, Holmstedt and Screnock bring to life one of the most loved biblical books. "Esther" enables a linguistic understanding of the Old Testament Hebrew text through solid contextual interpretation.

303 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2015

About the author

Robert D. Holmstedt (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is associate professor of Near and Middle Eastern civilizations at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario. His primary research interest is the linguistic study of Northwest Semitic languages.