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

Of course, in these holy texts, Xerxes is a mercurial man who replaces his queen when she won’t arrive at a party to show off her beauty to the king’s drinking companions. Esther is then ...

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 ...

kicks off her Queen Esther’s Court series with a rich and resonant retelling of the Purim story. It’s the 12th year of Persian king Xerxes’s rule and 23-year-old Roxannah lives in constant ...

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 ...