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imitation of the beginnings of the older histories, designed to suggest that Est. belongs to this class of literature.—[𝔊 L + After these events]. This addition is made with reference to the section A:1–17 that has just been inserted by 𝔊 L.—In the days of], the usual expression for the period of a king’s reign, cf. Gn. 14:1, 1 S. 17:12, 2 S. 21:1, 1 K. 10:21, 21:29 and often.—Xerxes] Heb. ˒Ǎḥashwērôsh (Ahasuerus). On the identity of this monarch with Xerxes I, see Introduction, § 22. Xerxes
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