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Endnote 25 - Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Book of Esther

Clines, The Esther Scroll, p. 46. See endnote 23.

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Endnote 24 - Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Book of Esther

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Endnote 23 - Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Book of Esther

David J. A. Clines, The Esther Scroll: The Story of the Story, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 30 (Sheffield, UK: Univ. of Sheffield, 1984), p. 154.

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Endnote 22 - Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Book of Esther

Literally, “legitimacy,” referring to permitted, or kosher, foods such as discussed in Leviticus ll.

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Endnote 21 - Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Book of Esther

See, for example, Theodor H. Gaster, Purim and Hanukkah in Custom and Tradition (New York: Schumann, 1959), p. 14; and K. V. H. Ringgren, “Esther and Purim,” Svensk Exegetisk Arsbok 20 (1956), pp. 5–24; Moore, Esther: Introduction, pp. xlvi–xlix.

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Endnote 20 - Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Book of Esther

Alan Millard, “The Persian Names in Esther and the Reliability of the Hebrew Text,” Journal of Biblical Literature and Exegesis (JBL) 96 (1977), pp. 481–88. For a photograph of the seal itself, see Millard, “In Praise of Ancient Scribes,” BA 45 (1982), p. 152.

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Endnote 19 - Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Book of Esther

Arthur Ungnad, ZAW 58 (1940–41), p. 244; 59 (1942–43), p. 219.

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Endnote 18 - Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Book of Esther

I.e., Mar-du-uk-ka, Mar-duk-ka, and Mar-du-kan-na-sir, see George G. Cameron, The Persepolis Treasury Tablets (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1948), p. 84.