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Sep 10, 2021 · A young Jewish woman, Esther, outshined all the rest. “So he [the king] set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti” ( Esther 2:17 ). Soon after Esther was crowned, an upheaval in the kingdom began. Haman, the king’s right-hand man, hated the Jewish people. No one knew Esther was Jewish.
Jan 30, 2016 · Bruce Feiler says, in Where God Was Born, page 331, it is known from Persian records that Queen Amestris, Xerxes' only known wife, continued in that role well beyond his third year as king (the date the text suggests Vashti was deposed). This means that Queen Vashti was a literary creation in the Book of Esther, and so we must look at the ...
- If this event actually occurred, we are left to form an opinion as to Xerxes' likely intentions when he called for his wife. If the event is fictio...
- The Hebrew is as follows: Esther 1:10-11 ביום השביעי כטוב לב המלך המלך ביין אמר למהומן בזתא חרבונא בגתא בגתא ואבגתא זתר וכרכס שבעת הסריסים המשרתים...
- To put your hermeneutical fears to rest, the Hebrew says ... להביא את ושתי המלכה to usher-to-come Vashti the queen לפני המלך before the king בכ...
- This interpretation---that she was being asked to present herself nude---is a good example of eisegesis . It could, possibly have meant that, b...
- The timing of her calling is important, I think. It was the last day of a seven day Royal Feast which was held after an unprecedented 180-day royal...
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The Babylonian Rabbis tend to cast Vashti in an extremely negative light, as wicked, a Jew-hater, and wanton. They comment on Esth. 1:9: “In addition, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for women, in the royal palace of King Ahasuerus” that Vashti held her banquet in the royal palace of King Ahasuerus, a place meant for men, and not in the natural venue for such an event, the harem.
May 9, 2017 · The king was “merry” with wine after spending a week in a drunken stupor, and commanded Vashti appear in front of his guests wearing her crown. (The actual translation infers that she appear naked, wearing ONLY her crown.) To appear in the nude would degrade and defile her. But the king was her husband, so she was required to come.
- Julie Barrier
Esther 1:9. Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women — While the king entertained the men. For this was the common custom of the Persians, that men and women did not feast together. In the royal house — Not in the open air, as the men were, but more privately, as was fit for women.
Whereas Vashti was willful and independent, Esther is passive and submissive. The reflexive use of the Hebrew word “LaKaKH” is constantly applied to her. She is “taken” in by Mordechai as a foster daughter, “taken” to the king’s harem, and “taken” before the king. She does not reveal her identity at the palace, “for ...
The queen refused to appear at the king's command as delivered by the eunuchs, because she did not choose to stake her dignity as a queen and a wife before his inebriated guests. The audacity of Persians in such a condition is evident from the history related Herod. Esther 1:18.
