AHASUERUS

āhăsˌyooēˈrəs, Hebrew form of the name Xerxes, as used in the Bible. The Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther is probably Xerxes I. That in the Book of Tobit may be Cyaxares I, destroyer of Nineveh. The name of the father of Darius the Mede is also given as Ahasuerus.

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books on: Ahasuerus  - 709 results

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The Eloquence of Symbols: Studies in Humanist Art
Book by Edgar Wind, Jaynie Anderson; Clarendon Press, 1993
Subjects: Arts, Humanism In Art
...in which Mordecai is received by Ahasuerus: First Cassone 1. Esther entering...palace 2. Esther presented to Ahasuerus 3. Esther leaving the kings place...panel showing Esther presented to Ahasuerus was the central panel of the cassone...
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The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler
Book by Robert G. L. Waite; Da Capo Press, 1993
Subjects: Heads Of State--Germany--Biography, Hitler, Adolf--1889-1945--Psychology
...that burdens you: the redemption of Ahasuerus: Destructionl 138 What did Wagner mean...passage? What was the "redemption" of Ahasuerus, and how could it come through Untergang...or annihilation? The reference to Ahasuerus is opaque. It seems likely, however...
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The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World
Book by Lawrence M. Wills; Cornell University Press, 1995
Subjects: Bible As Literature, Bible--O.T--Apocrypha--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Bible--O.T--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Jewish Fiction--History And Criticism, Literature, Ancient--History And Criticism, Narration In The Bible
Ahasuerus, first of all, is introduced pompously, indeed humorously: "In the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over one hundred and twenty...
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The Legends of the Jews - Vol. 4
Book by Louis Ginzberg; The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1913
Subjects: Legends, Legends, Jewish
Haman: "Which Mordecai?" Ahasuerus: "Mordecai the Jew." Haman: "There be many Jews named Mordecai." Ahasuerus: "The Jew Mordecai who sits at the...I know not which thou meanest." Ahasuerus: "The gate that leads from the harem...
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Praise Her Works: Conversations with Biblical Women
Book by Penina Adelman; Jewish Publication Society, 2005
Subjects: Bible--O.T--Proverbs Xxxi--Commentaries, Midrash Ha-Gadol, Women In The Bible
...half of the kingdom. Esther then asks Ahasuerus and Haman to attend a banquet she has...soon begin to turn. That night, when Ahasuerus has trouble sleeping, his servants read...Esther, she dra- matically confronts Ahasuerus and Haman with her true identity and...
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journal articles on: Ahasuerus  - 61 results

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Poussin's Esther before Ahasuerus: Beauty, Majesty, Bondage
Journal article by Jonathan Unglaub; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003
Subjects: Art history, Painting, Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665), Visual artists
Poussins Esther before Ahasuerus: Beauty, Majesty, Bondage by Jonathan Unglaub While Esther before Ahasuerus (Fig. 1) is among Nicolas Poussins...reason for the neglect of father before Ahasuerus, I suspect, is its seemingly conventional...
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A Blackened Sea: Religion and Crisis in the Work of Par Lagerkvist
Journal article by Jeff Polet; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 54, 2001
Subjects: Lagerkvist, Par--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Religion and literature--Analysis, Swedish literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...with Barabbas: The Sibyl, The Death of Ahasuerus, Pilgrim at Sea, and The Holy Land...This death is found in The Death of Ahasuerus, but it is a troubled and complicated...the worlds evil. When, in The Sibyl, Ahasuerus considers the vanity of life and a world...
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'The Scarlet Letter' and the Book of Esther: Scriptural Letter and Narrative Life
Journal article by Matthew Gartner; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 23, 1995
Subjects: Bible. O.T. Esther (Sacred text)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hawthorne, Nathaniel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Scarlet Letter (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Governor is comparable with Esther before Ahasuerus," but elaborates no further.(5...to the Book of Esther (in which King Ahasuerus wields a gold sceptre), is indicated...cabalistic figures and diagrams. (1:103) Ahasuerus has lent his authority to Hamans plot...
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Inspecting the Tragedy of Empire: Shelley's 'Hellas' and Aeschylus' 'Persians
Journal article by Michael Erkelenz; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 76, 1997
Subjects: Aeschylus--Influence, Civilization, Greek--Influence, Imperialism in literature--Analysis, Shelley, Percy Bysshe--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Mahmud to consult the Pythagorean sage Ahasuerus whose "Deep contemplation, and unwearied...know not" (159-61). Like Dareios, Ahasuerus is something of an underworldly, chthonic...disaster in Greece, Mahmud looks to Ahasuerus to restore his forgotten dream and alleviate...
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Hadassah Bat Abihail: the Evolution from Object to Subject in the Character of Esther
Journal article by Joshua A. Berman; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 120, 2001
Subjects: Esther, Literary criticism, Religion
...2. In the wake of Vashtis banishment Ahasuerus sought a new wife who would be beautiful...identity as the consummate Other vis-vis Ahasuerus and her subjective identity as a Jew...act of annihilation? Is she wife of Ahasuerus or adopted daughter of Mordecai? Is...
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magazine articles on: Ahasuerus  - 17 results

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1.
The Wandering Jew and the Second Coming
Magazine article by Martin Gardner; Free Inquiry, Vol. 15, Summer 1995
Subjects: Second Advent--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Germany about a Jewish shoemaker named Ahasuerus who claimed to be the Wanderer. The...quick further comment. The Wanderer is Ahasuerus, a cobbler. His sister Herodias, the...minor characters in a complex plot. Ahasuerus is tall, with a single black eyebrow...
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Picture Galleries outside London: The Barber Institute, Birmingham
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 271, December 1997
Subjects: Art museums--England, Birmingham, England--Galleries and museums
...seldom set as far back as the Persian Empire. In his Wrath of Ahasuerus the Emperor, inordinately plumed and bearded, turbaned and...goblet and a dish of oranges on the carpeted table, from which Ahasuerus has angrily tossed a Delft vase, now smashed, and as a token...
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On the Path of Persian History : The Islamic Republic of Iran May Impose Its Will on a Reluctant Population, but This Does Not Deny Its Glorious Past as One of the Greatest Empires History Has Known
Magazine article by Eva Harnik; World and I, Vol. 16, December 2001
Subjects: Iran--Description and travel
...simple 2,400-year-old tomb held by legend to be that of the biblical Esther and her uncle, Mordecai, who is called Ahasuerus in the Bible. This plucky young slave at the court of Xerxes (r. 486--465 b.c.) warned the king about the impending...
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The Laughter of the Philosophers
Magazine article by David B. Hart; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, January 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The HUmor of Kierkegaard (Book)--Book reviews
...Kierkegaards were never quite as wild or surreal as some of Hamanns--Vettius Epagathus Regiomonticolae, An Apocryphal Sibyl, Ahasuerus Lazarus, Abelard Viterbius, Aristobulus, An Angry Prophet from the Brook Kerith, and so on). Indeed, Kierkegaard even...
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Father & Daughter at the Met
Magazine article by Karen Wilkin; New Criterion, Vol. 20, April 2002
Subjects: Gentileschi, Artemisia--Exhibitions, Gentileschi, Orazio--Exhibitions, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York--Exhibitions, Painters--Exhibitions
...New Yorkers, I suspect, first-hand experience of her work is largely limited to the Metropolitans peculiar Esther Before Ahasuerus (c. 1628-35), an awkward painting as notable for the unconvincing, mannered postures of its protagonists as it is for...
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newspaper articles on: Ahasuerus  - 11 results

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Purim to Be Celebrated with Festival
Newspaper article by Victoria Pierce; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 3, 2007
Subjects: Festivals, Purim--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...who served as prime minister under King Ahasuerus, who ruled over Persia. Haman hated...anger was so great that he convinced Ahasuerus to decree that all Jews should be executed...Hebrew month of Adar. Unbeknownst to Ahasuerus, his beloved wife, Esther, was a Jew...
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Steen's Great Works Bring Smiles
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, April 28, 1996
...Steen would go on to paint even larger, highly dramatic, even bombastic religious scenes, such as the theatrical "Wrath of Ahasuerus" (circa 1671-1673), "Samson and Delilah" (1668) and "The Wedding Feast at Cana" (circa 1670-1672...
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The Pick of a Royal Peek
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 13, 2007
...this exhibitions paintings must be the two great Tintorettos, and especially the darkly glittering and exotic Esther Before Ahasuerus. There is also a stunning Orazio Gentileschi of Joseph And Potiphars Wife, certainly one of the greatest works of this impressive...
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Women to Explore Spiritual Sides in New Studies
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 6, 2001
...being aware of Gods unseen hand, leading and guiding our lives," Entz said. Esther, a queen of Persia married to King Ahasuerus, was the key in saving the Jewish people from destruction by the kings adviser, Haman. Although in fear for her life...
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Vagabonds and Visionaries, Dreamers and Dandies; There May Be Much to Enjoy in the Rebels and Martyrs Exhibition, but We Have a Right to Demand Better Scholarship from the National Gallery
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 30, 2006
Subjects: Rebels
...characteristics of this mythical Jew as the victim of eternal scorn condemned to endless, restless wandering. The Jew, Ahasuerus, I observe in passing, last made himself known in 1868, then to a Mormon named OGrady living in Salt Lake City - what a...
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encyclopedia articles on: Ahasuerus  - 23 results

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Ahasuerus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AHASUERUS ahas yooe r s, Hebrew form of the name Xerxes, as used in the Bible. The Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther is probably Xerxes I...father of Darius the Mede is also given as Ahasuerus...
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Tarshish
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the biblical "ships of Tarshish" held cargo for metal-manufacturing centers on the Mediterranean coast. 2 Counselor of Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther. 3 Benjamite in First Chronicles. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Biztha
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BIZTHA biz th , bizta , in the Bible, chamberlain of Ahasuerus. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Xerxes I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sez, d. 465 b.c., king of ancient Persia (486 465 b.c.). His name in Old Persian is Khshayarsha, in the Bible Ahasuerus . He was the son of Darius I and Atossa, daughter of Cyrus the Great. After bringing (484 BC.) Egypt once more under...
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Vashti
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VASHTI vash ti, in the Bible, queen whom Ahasuerus deposed for disobedience. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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