Volume one of the Rabbinical commentaries on the Book of Ester provides the German translations of the halakhic text on Purim: the biblical book of Ester and tractat Megilla in Mishna, Tosefta and in Talmud Bavli. Volume two of this set contains the Midrashim on Ester: Panim Acherim A and B, Midrash Megillat Ester, Pirqe deRabbi Elieser, chapters 49-50, Midrash Megilla, Leqah Tov and Jalqut Shimoni on Ester, Midrash Abba Gurion, Ester Rabba, Sefer Josippon, chapter nine and Midrash Psalm 22. This source publication of commentaries in Talmud and Midrash on the Book of Ester provides German translations which make visable the flow of argumentation, the structure of the texts and parallel passages within rabbinical literature. the texts show different approaches to declaring the book of Ester a holy book by means of interpretation.