Briefly, in the story, which can be found in The Book of Esther, an exalted adviser to King Xerxes of Persia named ... be ...

Esther was about to choose to transition to adulthood and hear the call to find meaning in her life. She starts as this quiet, passive queen ... to approach the king without being summoned ...

Bathsheba, wife to one king and mother of another, is queen during ... that bears her name. Esther’s beauty and wit attracts the Persian king Ahasuerus (possibly King Xerxes I, 486-465 B.C ...

In the Book of Esther, a drunk King Ahasuerus has his wife, Queen Vashti, killed for disobeying him when he requested that she show herself at a party (with some interpretations being that he ...

Risking her life, she confessed to the king that she was not a gentile after all, and she persuaded him to save her people. You might not instinctively pair Queen Esther with Rembrandt van Rijn ...