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Isaiah 58 is the fifty-eighth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. Chapters 56-66 are often referred to as Trito-Isaiah. [1]
Rest of Esther: Esther 10,4 – 16,24: Esther 10:4 – 16:24: The Rest of the Chapters of the Book of Esther, which are found neither in the Hebrew nor the Chaldee Wisdom: Sapientiae: Wisdom: The Wisdom of Solomon Ecclesiasticus: The Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremy: Baruch: Baruch Song of ...
When she is introduced, in Esther 2:7, she is first referred to by the Hebrew name Hadassah, [8] which means "myrtle tree." [9] This name is absent from the early Greek manuscripts, although present in the targumic texts, and was probably added to the Hebrew text in the 2nd century CE at the earliest to stress the heroine's Jewishness. [10]
The Book of Esther is a 2013 movie starring Jen Lilley as Queen Esther and Joel Smallbone as King Xerxes. [83] 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
The Isaiah scroll, part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, contains almost the whole Book of Isaiah and dates from the second century BCE. The books of Esther , Daniel , Ezra-Nehemiah [ i ] and Chronicles share a distinctive style that no other Hebrew literary text, biblical or extra-biblical, shares. [ 113 ]
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 Toilette of Esther or Esther Preparing to be Presented to King Ahasuerus, is an 1841 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Théodore Chassériau. The painting depicts a moment from the scriptural Book of Esther , when Esther prepared to meet King Ahasuerus , ruler of Persia, who subsequently took her as his wife.
Esther 2:5-6 contains a short snippet of Mordecai's genealogical history, generally translated as, "Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah". The wording of the passage lends to two ...