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Xerxes I. Xerxes I (/ ˈzɜːrkˌsiːz / ZURK-seez[2][a] c. 518 – August 465 BC), commonly known as Xerxes the Great, [4] was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC. He was the son of Darius the Great and Atossa, a daughter of Cyrus the Great.
Book of Esther. "Ahasuerus" is given as the name of a king, the husband of Esther, in the Book of Esther. He is said to have “ruled over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Nubia " — that is, over the Achaemenid Empire. [4] Some consider the narrative of Esther was to provide an aetiology for Purim, and that the name ...
Traditionally, a scroll of Esther is given only one roller, fixed to its lefthand side, rather than the two used for a Torah scroll. [1] The Book of Esther (Hebrew: מְגִלַּת אֶסְתֵּר, romanized: Megillat Ester; Greek: Ἐσθήρ; Latin: Liber Esther), also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the Megillah "), is a book in the ...
Artaxerxes I. Artaxerxes I (/ ˌɑːrtəˈzɜːrksiːz /, Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎫𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎠 Artaxšaçāʰ; [2][3] Greek: Ἀρταξέρξης) [4] was the fifth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, from 465 to December 424 BC. [5][6] He was the third son of Xerxes I. In Greek sources he is also surnamed "Long-handed" (Ancient Greek ...
Cyrus the Great. Mother. Cassandane. Religion. Zoroastrianism. Atossa (Old Persian: Utauθa, or Old Iranian: Hutauθa; 550–475 BC) was an Achaemenid empress. She was the daughter of Cyrus the Great, the sister of Cambyses II, the wife of Darius the Great, the mother of Xerxes the Great and the grandmother of Artaxerxes I.
Haman Begging the Mercy of Esther, by Rembrandt. Haman (Hebrew: הָמָן Hāmān; also known as Haman the Agagite) is the main antagonist in the Book of Esther, who according to the Hebrew Bible was an official in the court of the Persian empire under King Ahasuerus, commonly identified as Xerxes I (died 465 BCE) but traditionally equated with Artaxerxes I or Artaxerxes II. [1]
15. Ezra 4 is the fourth chapter of the Book of Ezra in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, [1] or the book of Ezra–Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and book of Nehemiah as one book. [2] Jewish tradition states that Ezra is the author of Ezra–Nehemiah as well as the Book of Chronicles, [3] but modern ...
The Xerxes I inscription at Van, also known as the XV Achaemenid royal inscription, [ 1 ] is a trilingual cuneiform inscription of the Achaemenid King Xerxes I (r. 486–465 BC). [ 2 ][ 3 ] It is located on the southern slope of a mountain adjacent to the Van Fortress, near Lake Van in present-day Turkey. [ 3 ]