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   Who was Vashti in the Bible?

   • 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.

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   Where is the banquet of Queen Vashti from?

   • The Banquet of Queen Vashti, from the 1617 Scroll of Esther from Ferrara, Italy. Institution: National Library of Israel, Jerusalem. The first wife of Ahasuerus, the king of Persia, Vashti is the featured character in the first episode of the Book of Esther.

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   Should Vashti have ruled Persia?

   • Vashti, not Ahasuerus, should have ruled Persia.) Some modern interpreters delight in her staunch refusal to be demeaned by the king and take her to be a feminist icon. When is Purim 2024?

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   How did Vashti become a queen?

   • To be considered for the position of queen, Vashti (circa 475 B.C.) must have been a member of one of the powerful and aristocratic families in the Persian empire. She was probably designated from birth as being a suitable wife for the emperor Ahasuerus, so she grew up very sure of her own status and was trained as a possible future queen.

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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.

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   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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   Sep 10, 2021 · From the citadel of Susa, a Persian king by the name of Xerxes (or Ahasuerus) ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush. The Bible doesn’t tell us how long Xerxes' first wife, the beautiful Queen Vashti, sat by his side.

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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.

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   QUEEN VASHTI, Bible woman married to a dangerous fool. Queen Vashti married a fool. The story of Vashti has 3 parts: The king’s great banquet. Ahasuerus, king of Persia, holds a royal banquet to honor the powerful men of his vast empire and display his enormous wealth. Vashti disobeys her drunken husband.

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   Jun 23, 2021 · In the biblical Book of Esther, Vashti is wife of the king of Persia who refuses his request to appear before the royal guests at a banquet. Her episode introduces several themes that occur throughout the book, and she sets in motion the rest of story’s events when her refusal leads to her being deposed and replaced as queen by Esther.

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    The A type of non-halakhic literary activitiy of the Rabbis for interpreting non-legal material according to special principles of interpretation (hermeneutical rules). midrash conveys that Vashti was the orphaned daughter of Belshazzar; God was her help and kept her alive and she was wed to the emperor of Persia and Media, even though she was ...