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Esther


Queen Vashti Leaving the Royal Palace, fragment of a Florentine cassone with the Scenes with the Story of Esther by Filippino Lippi
Ahaseurus Sends Vashti Away (Assuérus Chasse Vashti) by Marc Chagall
Vashti's Tail by Richard McBee

Esther 1 Banished Vashti

The Refusal, Queen Vashti, by Marcelle Hanselaar
Hadassah: Queen Esther, by Ira Mallory
Queen Esther/Harriet Tubman

Esther 2 Custody in the Harem

Esther before Ahasuerus by Artemisia Gentileschi
Esther before Ahasuerus, from book of Esther (מגלת אסתר) by Unknown artist, Italy
Esther before Ahasuerus by Jan Steen

Esther 5:1–8 Esther’s Pivotal Moment

Esther before Ahasuerus by Guercino
Shrine for Girls by Patricia Cronin
Esther by John Everett Millais

Esther 8 Esther Pleads for Her People


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General Resurrection from the Bamberg-Eichstätt Psalter by unknown German artist
Sarcophagus of Theodore by Unknown Italian artist
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

1 Corinthians 15:35–58 Bodily Resurrection

Yellow Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way (Domine, Quo Vadis?) by Annibale Carracci
The Last Judgement by The Last Judgement

1 Peter 4:12–19 Finding Meaning in Suffering

The War in Heaven (pane 7g), part of The Great East Window of York Minster
Saint Michael and the Devil by Unknown Spanish Artist
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Revelation 12:7–12 War in Heaven

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