The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

This book is named after its principal character, Esther, the beautiful Jewish maiden whose vicissitudes at the court of Persia were instrumental in saving her people from extermination.

Esther is a short book that reads like a modern-day thriller. The queen is banished for not obeying her husband’s orders, and Esther, an unknown, replaces her.

And yet, while the Book of Esther is firmly rooted in Jewish canon, this Branson production was unambiguously Christian. “She’s a natural figure to attach to,” Brewer said.

They also investigated the Book of Esther, which narrates the story of the Jewish-Persian queen and that academics believe was written in the Hellenistic period (333-63 BCE).

According to a tradition dating back to at least the 1100s, Mordechai and Esther were buried in a mausoleum in Hamadan, believed to be the ancient city of Shushan mentioned in the Book of Esther.

The rabbi later read the Book of Esther from the megillah scroll in accordance with the Purim custom. According to a tradition dating back to at least the 1100s, ...