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Vashti (Hebrew: וַשְׁתִּי , romanized: Vaštī; Koinē Greek: Ἀστίν, romanized: Astín; Modern Persian: واشتی, romanized: Vâšti) was a queen of Persia and the first wife of Persian king Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther, a book included within the Tanakh and the Old Testament which is read on the Jewish holiday of Purim.
Vashti was a noble queen and a vicious antisemite; a traditional Persian princess and a proto-feminist agitator. Perhaps she was equally at home in sweeping ball gowns and low-rise comfy pants, and perhaps she was so in touch with her inner beauty that she would have walked the runway wearing nothing at all.
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Queen Vashti is often overlooked as a lesson in the Book of Esther.
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Feb 25, 2021 · And how are women’s lives like, or unlike, that of the Jewish teenager who became a queen against her will? Another character, the young wife of an ambitious, young U.S. senator in the early 1970s, wonders if she really chose her own marriage.
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.
Oct 11, 2018 · This three-week series will explore the characters of Queen Vashti, Mordecai, and Queen Esther as they work together and separately to resist the powers of Empire in their own ways. Read the sermons: Oct. 14: Queen Vashti Refuses
