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Identifying Ahashverosh and Esther in Secular Sources

Speaker:: Mitchell First
Date:: March 11 2014

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Bayit Sheni, Period of Tanach

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Mitchell First shows that King Ahashverosh can be identified with Xerxes, the famous king of Persia, and furthermore that Xerxes' wife Amestris can be identified with Queen Esther.

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