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Esther, a cousin of Mordecai, was a member of the Jewish community in the Exilic Period who claimed as an ancestor Kish, a Benjamite who had been taken from Jerusalem into captivity. She was the orphaned daughter of Mordecai's uncle, Abihail, from the tribe of Gad.
The Book of Esther is a 2013 movie starring Jen Lilley as Queen Esther and Joel Smallbone as King Xerxes. [81] 2015 Book Angela Hunt Hunt, Angela "Esther: Royal Beauty" (A Dangerous Beauty Novel) (2015) 2016 Book Rebecca Kanner Kanner, Rebecca, "Esther" (2016) 2011 Book Joan Wolf Wolf, Joan,"A Reluctant Queen: The Love Story of Esther" (2011) 2011
Queen Esther of Pennsylvania was a Native American woman belonging to the Iroquois in the mid-18th century. Her village consisted of over five hundred citizens and was located between the towns of Sayre, Pennsylvania , Athens, Pennsylvania and Waverly, New York .
A plain, explicit number representing the remaining days of life of the elders who outlived Joshua cannot be drawn from the text of the Bible; the Bible does not tell the period of time elapsed between the burial of Joshua and the day when "all that generation also were gathered to their fathers." Judges 2:10. Deuteronomy 34:1–9 Joshua 14:7–10
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 first who mentions the Fast of Esther is Aḥai of Shabḥa (8th century CE) in She'iltot 4; the reason there given for its institution is based on an interpretation of Esther 9:18, Esther 9:31 and Talmud Megillah 2a: "The 13th was the time of gathering", which gathering is explained to have had also the purpose of public prayer and fasting ...
In addition, there is a "negotiation period," also known as a "legal tampering period" in the two days before the start of the new league year. In 2025, this negotiation period begins Monday ...
Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World.