Love, Politics and the Absence of God in the Megillot [Tanakh]

In this course, we study three of the five Megillot. We read the three Megillot which are read in the spring: Esther, Shir HaShirim, and Ruth. These three works all grapple with themes of love, power, politics, identity, and the definition of family. Additionally, these texts are the only three books in Tanakh in which God is notably absent from the text.