Article Title

Why Is Esther Missing from the Qumran Scrolls?

Authors

Keywords

Esther, Qumran, Jews, festivals

Abstract

The book of Esther is conspicuously absent from the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in the Judean Desert caves. It is the only book of the Bible for which there are no scroll fragments. Martin Abegg Jr., Peter Flint, and Eugene Ulrich, three of the world's foremost Dead Sea Scrolls scholars, propose several possible reasons why Esther might have been deliberately excluded from the Dead Sea Scroll community at Qumran.

Recommended Citation

(2000) "Why Is Esther Missing from the Qumran Scrolls?," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 20: No. 2, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol20/iss2/5