Esther is the one Old Testament book that never mentions God by name, which didn’t stop it from becoming one of the most celebrated stories in the whole collection. It’s a court drama about a queen, a plot to wipe out an entire people, and a reversal of fortune that depends entirely on good timing and nerve. We covered all 10 chapters.
You’ll also see 2 episodes marked Dig Deeper below. The show’s format is an unstudied first read, reactions and all, so those episodes are where the hosts go back into a book or chapters they already covered to chase down their own questions and pick up what they missed the first time through. They’re not listener Q&A, just the hosts grading their own homework.
12 episodes (10 read-through + 2 Dig Deeper) • Chapters 1–10 (complete) • Recorded 2023
Every Episode, In Order
- Esther Chapter 1
- Esther Chapter 2
- Esther Chapter 3
- [Dig Deeper] Esther Chapters 1–3
- Esther Chapter 4
- Esther Chapter 5
- Esther Chapter 6
- Esther Chapter 7
- Esther Chapter 8
- [Dig Deeper] Esther Chapters 4–8
- Esther Chapter 9
- Esther Chapter 10
Contradictions We Found in Esther
Here are the contradictions we dug into in Esther:
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