Monday 17 March 2014

Identifying Achashverosh and Esther in Secular Sources

«According to Herodotus, the wife of Xerxes was named Amestris, and she was the daughter of a military commander named Otanes. (In the Megillah, Esther is described as the daughter of Avichail.) »
My modest contribution to this was to identify "Avi-Chayil" as possibly being a TITLE instead of a Proper name; namely the Captain/Commander of the army or the guard.
the Seforim blog: Identifying Achashverosh and Esther in Secular Sources
http://seforim.blogspot.com/2013/02/identifying-achashverosh-and-esther-in.html


Kol Tuv,
RRW
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