There's not a tremendous amount of nuance in the story, i would say. We do see a lot of growth and change over the course of the text. So it's the bad characters are really bad. The good characters are really good. I love what you've said about the idea of of seeing the plan of salvation in the story. In the manual, it starts out by saying, many events in the book of esther might seem like luck or coincidence. How else would you explain how an orphan jewish girl became the queen of persia at just the right time to save her people from being slaughtered? What are the chances that esther's cousin, mordecai,
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