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Esther 8 is the eighth chapter of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, [1] The author of the book is unknown and modern scholars have established that the final stage of the Hebrew text would have been formed by the second century BCE. [2]
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 4443 (also P.Oxy. 65. 4443, TM 61923, LDAB 3080, Rahlfs 0996) is a fragment of a Septuagint manuscript (LXX) written on papyrus in scroll form. [1] It is the oldest extant manuscript that contains Esther 8:16–9:3 of the Septuagint text and verse numbering, [2] [3] according to the text of LXX.
Hegai (Hebrew: הֵגַי, Greek: Γαι, romanized: Gai, Latin: Egeus) is a character from the Book of Esther, chapter 2, verses 3, 8, 9, and 15. The Masoretic Text also spells his name Hege (Hebrew: הֶגֶא). He is a eunuch placed in charge of Ahasuerus's harem.
By the time the Greek version of Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the kingdom of Macedonia under Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a "Bougaion" (Ancient Greek ...
Mordecai and Esther as officeholders in the Persian empire harnessing 'the resources of the chancellery and the imperial postal system' dispatched a set of letters to Jews in 'all the provinces' (verse 20; cf. verse 30) and thus using the same language as in the accounts of earlier royal edicts (1:22; 3:12–13; 8:9). [4]
When she is introduced, in Esther 2:7, she is first referred to by the Hebrew name Hadassah, [7] which means "myrtle tree." [8] 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. [9]
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In biblical geography, India is described as bordering the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Ahasuerus , as referenced in the Book of Esther (Esther 1:1 and Esther 8:9). [ 1 ] 1 Maccabees , which is located in the Deuterocanonon / Aprocrypha , references "the Indian mahouts of Antichus's war elephants [second century B.C.]" ( 1 Maccabees 6:37 ...