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Oct 11, 2018 · 10/11/2018 From Oct. 14-28 we will be spending time with the Book of Esther in worship. 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.
Jan 1, 2018 · Overview. Vashti, the Queen of Persia, loses her crown when she refuses to appear at a drunken council meeting wearing only her crown and nothing else. Her act of feminist resistance is echoed through the ages, culminating with the #MeToo movement of 2018. Candy Kugel. Director.
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The character is chiastically demonstrated in the first two chapters of the book, which happens to be the text for this study: A Vashti’s banquet (1:9) B Crowning of Vashti (1:10-11) C Vashti’s refusal (1:12) D Advisers suggest the replacement of Vashti; and Artaxerxes’ edict (1:13-22) E Advisers proposal for a beauty contest; and ...
- daniel nii aboagye aryeh, PhD
Feb 27, 2018 · Looking into refusal, and Vashti’s wordless but incredibly influential no, sent me back to the verse in which Vashti’s refusal appears in Chapter 1, Verse 12, of the Book of Esther. Ahaseurus ...
May 9, 2017 · The unspoken name of God, “I AM,” is used only in Exodus and Esther. When God came to deliver Israel from their Egyptian oppressors, God told Moses “I AM” sent you ( Exodus 3:8-14 ). God also used His Name “I AM” when He spoke of delivering the Jews from their Babylonian oppressors ( Esther 7:5 ). Most readers paint Queen Vashti ...
- Julie Barrier
Jul 8, 2018 · Vashti makes way for the emergence of Esther, and, over time, Queen Esther emerges as a character whose actions are the antithesis of excessiveness and the epitome of measured proportionality. It is with this measured approach that Esther saves her people. The story of Vashti is a critique of excess, excess of all kinds, especially of power.
A drawing of Vashti from an illustrated scroll of the Book of Esther produced in the city of Ferrara in 1617.From the collections of the National Library of Israel. 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 ...
