In the Book of Esther, power takes all sorts of forms. There’s plenty of traditional power to be found: King Ahasuerus, the villain of the story, rules over 127 provinces with an iron fist and ...

The story tells us of the improbable rise of Esther, a regular Jewish subject of the Persian Empire, to become the wife of Ahasuerus ... Book of Esther was the last book included in the Bible.