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

I hinted at something terribly, terribly menacing.

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

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

that date back to the very ancient world.

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

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

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

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

And probably all of those are pretty fair questions.

Certainly things that I have asked and thought about.

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

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

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

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

been handed down to us.

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

translation of that.

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

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

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

not just in general.

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