- Old Testament
Esther
A story of resilience and courage told with wisdom and wit
Everything You Wanted To Know about Esther
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About Your Instructors
Diane Jacobson
Dr. Diane Jacobson is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Connecticut College, New London (1970). She earned the M.A. degree from Columbia University/Union Theological Seminary in 1975. She also holds the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Union Theological Seminary (1982 and 1990). Jacobson joined the Luther Seminary faculty as an assistant professor in 1982 and has been professor of Old Testament since 1999. Now a professor emeritus, Jacobson is a frequent speaker throughout the Church and currently serves as Director of the Book of Faith Initiative for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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Kathryn M. Schifferdecker
Kathryn M Schifferdecker came to Luther Seminary as an assistant professor of Old Testament in 2006. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Schifferdecker was associate pastor for five years at Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale, Wisc., before coming to Luther. Schifferdecker is a frequent contributor to workingpreacher.org, Word & World and the author of Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job (Harvard University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a commentary on the book of Esther.
