How did Esther become queen?

Answer 1

The Book of Esther tells of Esther, the cousin and adopted daughter of Mordecai the Jew, becoming the new wife of King Ahasuerus of Persia.

There was no King Ahasuerus of Persia, but many Bible commentaries observe that Ahasuerus is likely the Hebraicised version of King Xerxes, the Achaemenid leader who ruled from 486 to 465 BCE.

Esther is unlikely to have been Xerxes' wife, because his only known wife, Amestris, continued in her role well beyond his third year as king (the date the text suggests Vashti was deposed). Other problems in the story call into question the story's reliability, for example Mordecai is identified as having been sent into exile by Nebuchadnezzar - an event that must have place over a century before Xerxes assumed power.

Answer 2

Esther is a Biblical Queen of the Persian Empire, which at that time included the Israelites. She is believed to be an historical character. She also had the name Hadassah. Her gravesite is in Hamadan.

Answer 3

Queen Esther Was born in Susa, Persia. She was of Jewish desent being born of the remnant of the freed Jews who remained after Cyrus The Great had allowed the Jewish populous to be freed under his reign and allowed them to return to Jerusalem and payed for their temple to be rebuilt. She was born under the Jewish name of Hadassah, but took the Persian name of Esther(Ishtar) meaning star, to hide her Jewish roots.

Answer 4

In the Book of Esther, Queen Vashti lost her throne and was replaced by Esther. Historians do differ on this, because they say that King Xerxes' first wife was really named Amestris, and she continued a queen well beyond his third year as king (the date the text suggests Vashti was deposed). There is considerable evidence that the Book of Esther is not really historical.

Answer 5

A:The Book of Esther says that Esther married King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) after he divorced his first wife Vashti, thereby becoming queen of Persia. In real life, the marriage never actually happened, because there was never either a Queen Vashti nor a Queen Esther of Persia. Historically, no one called Vashti or Esther was queen of Persia.

King Xerxes was married to Queen Amestris at the very time that the book says he divorced Vashti and married Esther, and remained married to Amestris for at least the next several years. Scholars say that the Book of Esther was a second-century-BCE Jewish novel.

Answer:

According to Jewish tradition, Esther was queen of the Persian empire, for about 11 years.

The Book of Esther makes it clear that this was not in the early part of Xerxes's reign, when Amestris is placed by historians.

The name of Mordechai is considered identical to the name Marduka, which is attested as the name of officials in the Persian court in the Persepolis Texts from the period of Xerxes I. One of these officials might very well be the biblical Mordecai.

The gravesite of Mordecai and Esther still stands in Hamadan; and the Jews of Iran, to this day, are referred to as "the children of Esther."

Answer 6

The book of Esther (in The Bible) recounts the manner in which she was chosen by the king of Persia to be his wife and queen. See the Related Link.

Answer

Although described in the Book of Esther as King Xerxes' second wife and therefore queen, Esther was never really his queen. King Xerxes was married to Queen Amestris at the very time that the book says he divorced Vashti and married Esther, and remained married to Amestris for at least the next several years. Scholars say that the Book of Esther was a second-century-BCE Jewish novel.

Answer 7

Esther lived near Susa (Shushan), a city that had been in the old Babylonian kingdom, but was later taken over by Persia. She was a Jew whose family had been taken to Babylon in the captivity. King Ahasuerus ("Xerxes" in the Greek) made Esther his queen in the palace ( 1 of 4 ) he had there

Answer 8

Esther was chosen, not for her beauty, but rather, because of her modesty.