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Wasti (Ibrani: וַשְׁתִּי, Vashti, Bahasa Yunani Koine: Αστιν Astin) adalah Ratu Persia dan istri pertama dari Raja Persia Ahasuerus dalam Kitab Ester, sebuah kitab dalam Tanakh (Alkitab Ibrani) dan dibacakan pada hari raya Yahudi Purim.
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.
- The King’s Great Banquet
- But What Sort of Life Would She have?
- Vashti Disobeys Her Drunken Husband
- What Did ‘Showing Off Her Beauty’ Mean?
- Vashti Dishonoured and Disgraced
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.
It may sound glamorous, but the harem of an ancient Middle Eastern king was a dangerous place to live.There were hundreds of other wives, all hungry for power and the king’s favour. What is more, Ahasuerus’ court seems to have been riven by power struggles, and it was one of those that led to her disgrace. At some stage in his reign Ahasuerus held ...
As was the custom, the wives dined separately, with Vashti as their hostess. This was how things were done at the time. It allowed the men licence to get drunk and do as they pleased, without the wives having to witness the foolishness of their husbands. On the last day of the banquet, when the men were well and truly drunk, Ahasuerus and some of h...
Just what ‘showing off her beauty’ meant is unclear. Some scholars suggest it meant that she should be naked, but this is probably wishful thinking on the part of the scholars. It probably meant she should appear with her face uncovered, in the richly embroidered clothes and extraordinary jewels she owned: ‘in all her glory’. Vashti, high-born, pow...
Ahasuerus was publicly humiliated. There, before all his most important subjects, he was confronted by a disobedient wife. There was only one course of action open to him: he had to repudiate Vashti. This meant dishonour and disgrace for her. We do not know her exact fate, but at best she would have been demoted from her lofty position and relegate...
Mar 23, 2016 · About 20 years later, the Woman’s Bible commentary put together by suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton called Vashti “a sublime representative of self-centred womanhood” who rises “to the heights...
May 9, 2017 · Most readers paint Queen Vashti (whose name means “beautiful”) in a negative light. Was she really arrogant, wicked and wanton? She was King Nebuchadnezzar’s granddaughter, Belshazzer’s cherished child.
- Julie Barrier
Mar 2, 2023 · Vashti is one of only 3 women in the Bible who are honored with the title Queen (Hebrew: Malkah). She is mentioned by name exactly 10 times in the Bible, all of them in the Book of Esther. (I’ve included all of those verses in this article and highlighted Vashti’s name in in bold.)
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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.
