Others like Gregory Nazianzen also excluded Esther from the Bible [JBC, p. 522]. Jerome while favoring the shorter canon, several times in his writings cited Books from the larger canon as Scripture.
Only the most puritanically fundamentalist approach to the Book of Esther would treat it as history. The key strategy Project Esther proposes is to identify the Palestine solidarity movement as ...
THE Bible is a vast divine book which contains God’s revelations ... Ezra 1-10, Nehemiah 1-13, Esther 1-10, Job 1-42 and Psalm 1, while the second volume delves into Psalm 74-150, Proverbs ...