What Is the Book of Esther?

The book of Esther is one of the Bible's most gripping dramas. But how do you teach it to your kids?Tucked between Nehemiah and Job, Esther reads like a palace thriller—a beauty contest, a genocidal plot, a villain who builds his own gallows, and a queen who risks everything to save her people. It's the only book in the Bible that never mentions God's name. Not once.But this unusual book turns out...