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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...

might be, to ensure a stable and productive order in creation and life in the world.”88 The book of Esther, indeed, is a form of applied wisdom in time of crisis, however limited that wisdom may be. Song of Songs and Esther embody the marginal voices in Old Testament theology and have often been overlooked or suppressed. This marginality is due to the dominance of the historical framework of God’s salvation history in the history of interpretation as well
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