Esther, A Video Study: 11 Lessons on History, Meaning, and Application (Beyond the Basics Video Series)

by Marion Taylor

Publisher:

Zondervan Academic

, 2021

Overview

Esther, A Video Study features scholar and professor Marion Taylor teaching through the book of Esther in 11 engaging and challenging lessons. Based on her Esther commentary in The Story of God Bible Commentary series, these video lessons explain and illuminate each passage of the book in light of the Bible’s overarching grand story. Taylor offers an engaging and probing introduction to the entire book of Esther, guiding viewers in creatively and faithfully living out its messages in today’s context. Using a story-centric approach, this set of lessons is ideal for formal and informal students alike, and for everyone who wants to better understand the book of Esther today.

Esther, A Video Study is part of the Beyond the Basics Series, which is dedicated to bringing expert teaching from world’s best biblical scholars and theologians directly to interested learners. Esther, A Video Study breathes life into each passage of the book, examined in its canonical and historical setting, in order to foster discernment in living God’s story faithfully and creatively with and for the church in the 21st century.

Key Features

• Explains and illuminates each passage of the book in light of the Bible’s overarching grand story
• Offers an engaging and probing introduction to the entire book of Esther
• Guides viewers in creatively and faithfully living out its messages in today’s context

Contents

• Introduction (37 min)
• Esther 1:1-22 (27 min)
• Esther 2:1-23 (26 min)
• Esther 3:1-15 (28 min)
• Esther 4:1-17 (27 min)
• Esther 5:1-14 (26 min)
• Esther 6:1-14 (25 min)
• Esther 7:1-10 (27 min)
• Esther 8:1-17 (26 min)
• Esther 9:1-32 (28 min)
• Esther 10:1-3 (24 min)

Product Details

• Title: Esther, A Video Study: 11 Lessons on History, Meaning, and Application
• Author: Marion Taylor
• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Video
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Esther › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9780310128328, 0310128323
• Resource ID: LLS:ESTHERVIDEOS
• Resource Type: Media
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-09T16:43:47Z

About Marion Taylor

Raised in Toronto, Marion has been teaching Old Testament at Wycliffe since the mid-1980s. She loves teaching an introductory Old Testament course. the Old Testament. She also teaches courses on Jeremiah, Old Testament Theology, Women of the Old Testament, Bad Boys and Bad Girls of the Bible, Women Interpreters of the Bible, Psalms and the History of Old Testament Interpretation. She has recently published Let her Speak for Herself: Nineteenth-century Women Writing on Women in Genesis with Heather Weir. She has just completed a co-edited a volume of essays on nineteenth-century women interpreters with Christiana de Groot of Calvin College. Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters will be released later this year as part of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Symposium series. She is currently preparing a biographical dictionary of women interpreters of Scripture. She has received several research grants to support her projects related to women interpreters of Scripture, most recently one from the Lilly Endowment. She is married to Glen Taylor, the other Old Testament professor at Wycliffe, and they have three teenagers and a dog. She loves to spend time reading and writing at their cottage in northern Ontario. She teaches Sunday School during the academic year and in the summer months is a lay reader in the little Anglican church on Eagle Lake. She collects nineteenth century books on the Bible written by women.