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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

Translating the Book of Esther The text of the book of Esther exists in three major forms. There is the Hebrew text, which is found in the Hebrew Scriptures and which has minor variations in the different Hebrew manuscripts. This is the text that is the basis of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) and Today’s English Version (TEV) translations that are quoted in this Handbook. There is also a Greek text in two different forms, one that is
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