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Is Queen Esther from the Bible connected to the legend of Ishtar?
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No, Esther took on the Persian name when she was taken to the palace, and perhaps before that for political reasons(Jews were not very popular, so it was the normal thing to conceal your faith and people). Her real name as Hadassah. So the only connection is the name and nothing else.Esth:2:7: And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
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∙ 8y agoThe Book of Esther is entirely secular and contains nothing about any religion. However, in ancient times, people often had names that related them to popular gods. The name Esther is considered likely to be derived from that of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and Mordecai is probably derived from that of the Babylonian God Marduk
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Esther was taken as wife by Ahasuerus, king of Persia.Esther was the heroine and central figure in the Biblical book of Esther. She was crowned about 55 years after the destruction of the First Temple, and fifteen years before the Second Temple was built. The Jews were in the Babylonian exile. A few of them, such as Nehemiah, Mordecai and Daniel, rose to positions of prominence under the Babylonian kings.The last of the Prophets of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) were still living.King Cyrus had recently made his famous proclamation (2 Chronicles 36:22-23) allowing the Jews to resettle Judea (Israel), and some had gone up with Zerubavel, but the enemies of the Jews had then slandered them (Ezra ch.4), causing the Babylonian king to put a stop to the rebuilding and resettlement of Judea. This last event was around the same time that Esther became Queen.When she became orphaned, she was adopted by her cousin Mordecai.Later, when Queen Vashti refused to appear before Ahasuerus (in Esther ch.1), Memuchan, a Persian royal adviser, advised King Ahasuerus (Xerxes I) to remove Vashti from being Queen of Persia, and King Ahasuerus agreed to his advice.In Esther Chapter 2, royal eunuchs advised Ahasuerus to look for a new queen. Esther was the best-looking woman, and Ahasuerus picked her to replace Vashti as Queen.Esther and her cousin Mordecai (who had once saved the king's life) later persuaded the king to cancel an order for the extermination of the Jews in his vast realm, which had been plotted by the king's chief minister, Haman. Instead, Haman was hanged on the gallows he had built for Mordecai, and the Jews were given permission to destroy their enemies. The Jewish festival of Purim celebrates this event.According to tradition, the book of Esther was written in the mid-4th century BCE, and was made part of the canon which was sealed a couple of decades after.Esther was queen for about 11 years.The name of Mordecai is the Judaised pronunciation of Marduka, which is attested in the Persepolis Texts as the name of officials in the Persian court during the period of Xerxes I. One of these officials was the biblical Mordecai.The grave of Mordecai and Esther still stands in Hamadan; and the Jews of Iran, to this day, are referred to as "the children of Esther."For the name of Esther, a number of etymologies are possible.1) Esther comes from the Persian "setareh," meaning "star".2) Esther comes from the Aramaic "istahar," meaning "moon." Beautiful as the moon (Talmud, Megillah 13a).3) Esther comes from the Semitic root ath-tar, "morning star." There is support for this too in the Talmud (Yoma 29a).4) Esther comes from the Median "astra," meaning "myrtle." The book of Esther (2:7) states that she had both names, Esther and Myrtle (Hadassah in Hebrew).See also:Why was Esther chosen as Queen?More about the Hebrew BibleJewish history timeline
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Esther is Hadassah in Hebrew. Scholars say that the name is likely derived from that of the Babylonian god Ishtar, just as Mordecai is derived from that of the Babylonian god Marduk.
Is the legendary book story Ishtar really Esther from the Bible pronounced similar to saying the word Star Isht Ar or Est hAR is she maybe Shahalizar in 1001 Nights even Vashti is a East Indian name?
Probably not. Ishtar is Semetic, but originates in Babylon and is more closely related to Ashtoreth and Astarte and means leading one. Esther is purely Hebrew and means star. It is suspected that Ishtar is the root of what would later become Easter, which at it's roots was simply meaning "east."
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She was the Goddess of Love and War mentioned in the Bible (a false god). She was predominately worshiped in Assyria and Babylon.
How was Esther mentioned in the Hebrew Bible?
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Who won the first beauty pagin in the bible?
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