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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 Murphy McKenzie (born May 28, 1947) is the President and General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. She is also a retired bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and author of six books. In 2000, McKenzie became the first woman to be elected as bishop in the denomination's history.
- Ida Murphy Peters and Edward Smith
- Stan McKenzie
- May 28, 1947 (age 76), Baltimore, Maryland
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Feb 7, 2019 · In the biblical Book of Esther, Vashti is the wife of King Ahasuerus, the ruler of Persia. Who Was Vashti? According to the midrash , Vashti (ושתי) was the great-granddaughter of King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon and the daughter of King Belshazzar, making her a Babylonian.
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.
In the view of the Babylonian Rabbis, Vashti’s punishment was merited (middah ke-neged middah: “measure for measure”): as she did to Jewish women, so it was decreed against her. The wicked Vashti would bring Jewish women, strip them naked and order them to perform work on the Sabbath.
Feb 28, 2023 · Culture. Hello, my name is Vashti: Meet a museum founder, a singer, an author and an Olympian. These modern-day Vashtis bear the name of the woman who paved the way for Purim’s Queen Esther.
Among the women who ruled were: Jezebel and Athaliah in Israel; and Shemiramot (Semiramis), wife of Nebuchadnezzar (see Lev. R. xix., end), and Vashti in Gentile kingdoms (Esther R. i. 9). Vashti prepared a feast for women in the "royal house," where she served them with sweetmeats and other delicacies palatable to women; and she selected as ...
