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Conspicuous in His Absence: Studies in the Song of Songs and Esther is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the biblical canon, two books lack any explicit reference to the name of God: Song of Songs and Esther. God’s peculiar absence in these texts is unsettling, both for theological discourse and for believers considering implications for their own lived experience. Chloe T. Sun takes on the challenges of God’s absence by exploring the often overlooked theological connections between these two...

places Song of Songs under the tradition of Wisdom literature in the vein of Proverbs.85 Stone considers the Megilloth to be held together by the gravitational pull exerted by the Wisdom corpus, which starts with Proverbs, just before the Megilloth, and Galvin furthers this argument by proposing that this gravitational pull does not stop with Ecclesiastes but includes Lamentations and Esther. Esther then becomes a figure of applied wisdom and functions as the counterpart to Joseph, only at a different
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