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  1. www.thetorah.com › article › ahasuerus-and-vashtiAhasuerus and Vashti: The Story Megillat Esther Does Not Tell ...

    Mar 6, 2017 · These widely-held images of Ahasuerus and Vashti originate with rabbinic midrash, but this only raises the question: Why did the rabbis assume that Ahasuerus was a usurper, why did they believe Vashti to be of royal blood, and why did they disparage Vashti at the expense of going against the text?

  2. media.growingchristians.org › transcript_esther_1King Xerxes of Persia Removes Queen Vashti

    princes, and all the people who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. 17 For the queen’s behavior will become known to all women, so that they will despise their husbands in their eyes, when they report, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought in before him, but she did not come.’ 18 This very day the noble ladies of ...

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  4. www.sefaria.org › sheets › 463631Queen Vashti: A 3-Act Story | Sefaria

    When Ahasuerus sent his important ministers, some of whom were eunuchs, to bring Vashti, she gave her husband the ritually mandated three opportunities to withdraw his demand. First she told him: “If they see me and think me beautiful, they will want to lie with me, and they will kill you.

  5. jewishjournal.com › commentary › columnistPurim’s other woman: Vashti, the queen who kept her clothes on

    Mar 15, 2013 · King Ahasuerus and his advisers — especially Haman — understood this and that was why they advised the king to depose Vashti immediately. If he did not, it would send a message to all of ...

  6. insightsbiblestudy.org › 1/2/8 › 5Esther 1,2 - Insights Bible Study

    Ecclesiastes 5:19. Esther 1,2 5. FYI: 2:6 who had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with the captives“This would make Mordecai 120 years old if the King were Xerxes and not Darius. Those who identify the king as Xerxes, therefore, say it was probably Mordecai’s grandfather who had been taken into exile.”.

  7. livingroomscripturelessons.com › wp-contentAhasuerus of Persia and Media makes royal feasts—Vashti ...

    Vashti’s rebelliousness (as viewed by these men) were to go unpunished, they knew it would inspire similar responses in their wives. Therefore they pushed Ahasuerus for action, and particularly asked for a decree that could not be “altered” (v. 19). C. F. Keil and F. Delitzsch explained why that edict was

  8. www.academia.edu › 41134437 › Esther_Ahasuerus_and(PDF) Esther, Ahasuerus, & Artaxerxes: Who Was the Persian ...

    It has become trendy to describe Judaean literature as ‘resisting empire’. This essay challenges this trope with three theses: 1) local elite cultural production can be understood as one mechanism for interacting with imperialism in a way that is acceptable for both parties, emphasizing elite agency in the production of legitimacy; 2) the Teispid and early Achaemenid kings had a policy of ...