To make this more interesting, I have deleted the name of the book and another name that would give it away.
Anti-Semites have always hated the book, and the Nazis forbade its reading in the crematoria and the concentration camps. In the dark days before their deaths, Jewish inmates of Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka, and Bergen-Belsen wrote the Book of ________ from memory and read it in secret on _______. Both they and their brutal foes understood its message.
This unforgettable book teaches that Jewish resistance to annihilation, then as now, represents the service of God and devotion to His cause. In every age, martyrs and heroes, as well as ordinary men and women, have seen in it not merely a record of past deliverance but a prophecy of future salvation.
This statement was made by Robert Gordis, as quoted on page 45 of this fine commentary.
Powerful statement. Pretty clearly the book of Ruth?
No
Esther!
It has to be Esther.
Wow… my cross-country travels got my female-OT-book wires all crossed up. I meant Esther, and I probably shouldn’t comment when I don’t know what time zone I’m in. That’s good stuff.