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The acrostics referred to here were outlined in a letter to BR, Readers Reply, BR 03:03, from Ronald Youngblood, Ph.D., of Bethel Theological Seminary, San Diego, in response to Carey Moore’s article on the Book of Esther (“Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Book of Esther,” BR 03:01).
The sources are cited in D. Barag, “The Effects of the Tennes Rebellion on Palestine,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 183 (1966), pp. 6–12; Ephraim Stern, Material Culture of the Land of the Bible in the Persian Period, 538–332, B.C. (Warminster, UK: Aris and Phillips; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1983), p. 255.
Herodotus 3.69–79 tells us about a plot of the seven highest Persian aristocrats against a magician who usurped the throne in 522 B.C.E. This plot brought to power Darius I, the father of Xerxes. Another variant of these same events is given in Herodotus 3.83–88. On the broad rights of the seven, see Herodotus 3.118.
