The Book of Esther (Hebrew: מְגִלַּת אֶסְתֵּר, romanized: Megillat Ester; Greek: Ἐσθήρ; Latin: Liber Esther), also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the...

Esther, originally Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. According to the biblical narrative, which is set in...

The Book of Esther is a 2013 American biblical-drama film directed by David A. R. White and starring Jen Lilley as Esther. The film portrays a Jewish...

Esther (Hebrew: אֶסְתֵּר) is a female given name known from the Jewish queen Esther, eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther. According to the Hebrew Bible...

Look up Esther in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Esther is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther. Esther may also refer to: Esther (given name)...

The Book of Jubilees is an ancient Jewish apocryphal text of 50 chapters (1341 verses), considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church...

The Book of Wisdom, or the Wisdom of Solomon, is a book written in Greek and most likely composed in Alexandria, Egypt. It is not part of the Hebrew Bible...

Standard Version and in Protestant Bibles, it is placed after the Book of Esther as the first of the poetic books. In the Hebrew Bible it is located within the...

Maccabean-Hasmonean counterpart to Queen Esther, the heroine of the holiday of Purim. The textual reliability of the Book of Judith was also taken for granted...

version, which has formed the basis of most English translations in recent times. The Vulgate places Tobit, Judith and Esther after the historical books (after...

and ideology in the book of Esther. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock. p. 145. ISBN 9781608994953. Kalimi, Isaac (2023). The Book of Esther between Judaism and...

are the Song of Songs, the Book of Ruth, the Book of Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and the Book of Esther. These five relatively short biblical books are grouped...

The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch; Hebrew: סֵפֶר חֲנוֹךְ, Sēfer Ḥănōḵ; Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ, Maṣḥafa Hēnok) is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic religious text,...

saving of the Jewish people from annihilation at the hands of an official of the Achaemenid Empire named Haman, as it is recounted in the Book of Esther. Haman...

("Writings") as one of the Five Megillot ("Five Scrolls") alongside the Song of Songs, Book of Ruth, Ecclesiastes, and the Book of Esther (though there is...

The Book of Sirach (/ˈsaɪræk/), also known as The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus (/ɪˌkliːziˈæstɪkəs/), is a Jewish literary work,...

of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is described in Tanna Devei Eliyahu as being the son of Jair, of the tribe of...

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...

Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism. University of Chicago Press. pp. 12–13, 114–115. ISBN 9780226391151. Esther 1:1 and 8:9 "THE BOOK OF ESTHER". Uskojaelama...

fasts undertaken by the Persian Jewish community of Shushan in the Book of Esther, for the purpose of praying for salvation from annihilation by an evil...

playing King Xerxes in The Book of Esther and as Jake Reeson in Like a Country Song. In 2016, Smallbone was cast in the leading role of James Stevens in the...

the events that took place in the Book of Esther. The principal celebrations or commemorations include: The reading of the Megillah. Traditionally, this...

paraphrases of the Bible have used the name Xerxes. "Ahasuerus" is given as the name of a king, the husband of Esther, in the Book of Esther. He is said...

The Book of Judges (Hebrew: ספר שופטים, romanized: Sefer Shoftim; Greek: Κριτές; Latin: Liber Iudicum) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the...

Esther, also known as The Bible: Esther, is a 1999 American-Italian-German television film based on the Book of Esther, directed by Raffaele Mertes and...

The Book of Baruch is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible, used in many Christian traditions, such as Catholic and Orthodox churches. In Judaism and Protestant...

late twentieth." :p. 19: "The first [part of this book] is devoted ... to the book of Esther … Was it a book that promoted cruel vengeance ...? Since according...

editions often make greater use of the silent e in their spelling, e.g. "Deuteronomie" for Deuteronomy, "Booke" for book, and "Wisedom" for Wisdom. Ewert...

which was based on the Book of Esther of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament. It recounts the origin of the Jewish celebration of Purim. An international...

of Israel, to depose the Amalekites, which caused Haman's hostility to the Jews in the Book of Esther. Some commentators have discussed the ethics of...