[Avodah] Darshening the Megillah

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 05:16:22PM -0500, Lisa Liel wrote:
>> You are speaking of canonical order, I'm am speaking of historical order
>> of canonization. Thanks for pushing me to be more clear.

> Are you sure that it was canonized later than Shir HaShirim, for example?

I think so, because Esther is the only book of Tanakh not found among
the Dead Sea Scrolls. Which would imply to me that it was the only book
of the canon not accepted by all Jews when their sect split off.

The gemara about metamei es hayadayim, or not (Megillah 7a), is taken by
some rishonim (eg Ritva) to be a dispute abou whether Esther, Qoheles
or Shir haShirim were canonnized at all. R SZ Leiman advocates for the
majority of rishonim who say they agreed over cannonization, but still
disagreed over tum'ah. But the Ritva would say that those three were in
dispute the latest, into the later tannaim, and thus one of them was last.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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