The name of esther in hebrew means i hide myself. In this text, in deuteronomy, chapter 31, verse 18, god declares, i shall hide my face. E ere going to see the ways in which ester functions as a type of god and also as atype of christ. And they're tropes of veiledness and a sort of unveiling that go on throughout the entire text. So there's really a play between whether god is present or absent. There are times when he will be hidden from us, times where he will be revealed.

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