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What did Esther do in history?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019
A:Biblical scholars, such as Leonard J Greenspoon (The Oxford History of the Biblical World, Between Alexandria and Antioch: Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic Period), say that the Book of Esther was a second-century-BCE novel. Historians also tell us there was never a Queen Esther of Persia.

We can attribute nothing to Esther in history, as she exists only in the novel of which she was the heroine.

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