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The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

EST095 - Wait, Did You Say There Was Another Version of Esther? How Do We Know We're Looking at the Right One?

The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

Matt Whitman

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4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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ESTHER 4 Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss the episode here Opening song, "Spooklight" from the album, "The Clamour and the Crash" by Jeff Foote

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0:00.0

Hello, my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and yesterday

0:14.8

I hinted at something terribly, terribly menacing.

0:19.7

Maybe it stuck with a few of you, I was just impassing.

0:22.2

But I was talking about how there are a couple different versions of the Book of Esther

0:28.0

that date back to the very ancient world.

0:32.3

And maybe that's the kind of thing that sets off all sorts of alarm bells and raises questions.

0:36.8

Like, how do we know that we got the right one?

0:39.8

And is it weird that Christians read more than one version of the Book of Esther?

0:45.3

And does this raise questions about how the whole Bible in general works?

0:49.0

And probably all of those are pretty fair questions.

0:52.1

Certainly things that I have asked and thought about.

0:55.6

And so over the next couple of conversations, as we're right here between Esther 4 and

1:00.1

Esther 5, I want to just step back from the story for a moment and talk about not the

1:07.3

historical background of Esther, like Persia and all of that that we've been talking about.

1:12.3

But I want to talk about the history of the Book of Esther and how it has unfolded and

1:19.6

been handed down to us.

1:21.8

And why there is an original Hebrew version, that's, I mean, we're looking at the English

1:27.5

translation of that.

1:29.4

And why there is more stuff that all parties who care about these things, Catholic, Orthodox,

1:36.8

Jews, Protestants would refer to as additions to Esther that came after the fact.

1:43.5

But before we get into all that stuff, I would like to complain for a minute about Disney,

1:49.0

not just in general.

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