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Today Laurie has a global outreach through his multicampus megachurch, which includes a Harvest Christian Fellowship in Maui, ...
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, forced idol worship upon us. The king of Persia and Media – Ahasuerus – tempted us with physical pleasures. Antiochus the Greek sought to make us forget the Torah.
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Drawing on Dutch masters, NY exhibit explores Christians painting themselves into Purim parableAhasuerus stands between them, wearing an ermine cloak more suited to the mid-1600s than to ancient Persia. Esther’s more contemplative side is depicted in the 1685 painting “Esther and ...
In ancient Persia, Queen Esther, a Jewish woman, risked her life to expose King Ahasuerus’s advisor Haman’s wicked plot to annihilate the Jewish people. Centuries later, in the Netherlands ...
Her husband, the Persian King Ahasuerus, shares her light, his craggy face set off by a snowy turban and a mantle of gold brocade. Seen from behind, in shadowy profile, Haman is silhouetted ...
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Purim celebrations: Deliverance, customs, and controversiesAlthough there was a King Ahasuerus, the Hebrew form of a Persian name (which the Greeks heard as Xerxes), who reigned from 486 to 465 BCE, the story presents several historical difficulties.
However, the basis for this claim is weak. One piece of evidence comes from the Bible’s account of Esther in which Persian King Ahasuerus (Xerxes the Great) orders the death of one of his court ...
A new biography of Witkacy offers an opportunity to discuss the turbulent life of this artist – a man of his time and a lover ...
Speaking Tree. Ganesha says one good example is equal to a thousand words Taurean Sachin Tendulkar is a role model for the world I have met him twice This is what I have to say He ...
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