The Book of Esther

Hebrew scripture · c. 400 BCE · Scripture · Judeo-Christian · Ancient

A Persian king puts aside his queen and takes a Jewish orphan, Esther, without learning who her people are. His minister Haman, slighted by her guardian Mordecai, obtains a decree for the destruction of the Jews across the empire, and Esther must go to the king uninvited. The one book of the Hebrew Bible that never names God.

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Lineage

• modeled on ↑ Genesis
  Anonymous · c. 550 BCE · Scripture
• ↓ Esther
  Jean Racine · 1689 CE · Play — adapts this

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