Leonard Greenspoon is the holder of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University. Sidnie White Crawford is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Chair, Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.Sidnie White Crawford is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Chair of the Classics and Religious Studies Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

"The work is neatly arranged into categories and sections covering similar themes, and gives the reader a very good impression of many aspects of research into the book of Esther....for anyone interested on the study of the book of Esther, this is an excellent collection." -RRT (Reviews in Religion and Theology), 12.1, 2/05