esther book of

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esther book of - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Esther, Book of
  The authorship of this book is unknown. It must have been
  obviously written after the death of Ahasuerus (the Xerxes of
  the Greeks), which took place B.C. 465. The minute and
  particular account also given of many historical details makes
  it probable that the writer was contemporary with Mordecai and
  Esther. Hence we may conclude that the book was written probably
  about B.C. 444-434, and that the author was one of the Jews of
  the dispersion.
  
    This book is more purely historical than any other book of
  Scripture; and it has this remarkable peculiarity that the name
  of God does not occur in it from first to last in any form. It
  has, however, been well observed that "though the name of God be
  not in it, his finger is." The book wonderfully exhibits the
  providential government of God.