The biblical Book of Esther is set in the
third year of Ahasuerus, a king of Persia. The name Ahasuerus is
equivalent to Xerxes, both deriving from the Persian Khshayārsha, thus
Ahasuerus is usually identified as Xerxes I (486-465 BCE), though
Ahasuerus is identified as Artaxerxes in the later...
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