You're listening to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast, where we do best, fun, free, daily

deep dives into books of the Bible, and right now, we're going to Esther.

All right, last time around we started talking about how there are two different ancient

versions of Esther.

There's a really, really, really old one that dates back probably really close to the

event it describes.

That one is derived from Hebrew.

We're reading the English translation of it as we work through this whole thing together

here on this podcast.

And then a couple of centuries later, there are some Greek additions to the existing text

of the book of Esther.

And everybody agrees that those are additions.

Everybody agrees that they came after the fact what everybody does and agree on is which

one ought to be reading.

So orthodox include the Greek additions to Esther in their Bibles, Protestants, and Jews

do not include the later additions to Esther in their Bibles.

And there is absolutely no point whatsoever in me trying to hide my biases here.

I'm profoundly convinced that we should be reading the original version of Esther

and not the one that includes the later Greek additions.

And you could probably tell that as soon as we started working through the book of Esther

and we weren't using the version with the later Greek additions.

But it doesn't mean I think that everybody who does it differently is stupid or bad or

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