Book of Esther

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Book of Esther - an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre

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Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible

Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings - the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures

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Jerusalem: Kana, 1996); Matilda Koen-Sarano, Sefaradis de dor en dor (Jerusalem, 1999); Eliezer Papo, La Megila de Saray, (Author's edition, 1999); Salvador Santa Puche, Antolojia de poetas sefaradis kontemporaneos, ed.