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Vashti: The Forgotten Queen of Persia. The rabbis imagined the Bible's Vashti as both evil villain and tragic heroine. By Shira Eliaser
- Queen Vashti refuses to obey Ahasuerus' command.
- Queen Vashti refuses to obey her husband's orders to expose himself to his guests.
- Queen Vashti refuses to appear for the King, Illustration from the Dore Bible 1866.
- Esther is made queen.
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When Queen Vashti famously refused to dance at the king’s wine party, she precipitated a scandal in the royal court of Persia. Yet the text of the Megillah — the Book of Esther — does not tell us her fate.
44.5 x 61 cm. Inventory. 1890 n. 492. The panel is part of a cycle of paintings dedicated to the story of biblical heroine Esther, who would become the wife of Persian king Ahasuerus (better known as Xerxes) and do her best to protect the Jewish people against a plot organized by a court dignitary.
Queen Vashti: Mystery Woman of the Megillah. Here’s what we know about Vashti from the first chapter of the book of Esther: She was the queen before Esther replaced her, she held a party for other women in the palace, she refused to go to King Achashverosh’s party, and she is banished in order to teach her and others a lesson. That’s it.
His painting of Vashti captures the dramatic opening of the biblical narrative Vashti's refusal of the King's summons. Vashti was Queen of Persia and the first wife of Persian King Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther.
VASHTIVASHTI (Heb. וַשְׁתִּי; perhaps "beauty" in Persian), queen of Persia and Media, wife of *Ahasuerus (Xerxes; 485–465 b.c.e.). When King Ahasuerus, in the third year of his reign, held a banquet "for all the people that were found in *Shushan" in the king's gardens, Queen Vashti also held a banquet in the palace.
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