Book of Esther showing up in unlikely places

From yesterday’s New York Times:

Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them.

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Lydia Brawner is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University, where she studies intersections of religion and art, and a regular contributor to here & there. She serves on the editorial board of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory.

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