The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

Ahasuerus realized the loneliness of the bachelor lifestyle and worked with Haman and his other deputies to devise a beauty contest that would ultimately choose his new wife. A Jewess, Esther ...

From Ahasuerus to Ahmadinejad Both uplifting and saddening, a lavish new exhibition at Beit Hatfutsot called ‘Lights and Shadows’ chronicles 2,700 years of Jewish life in Iran.

Of course, that’s not what happens. While Haman is indeed done away with, Esther remains queen. She and Ahasuerus, by tradition, will produce a child, Darius II, who will renew Cyrus’s ...

Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Rev. Trey Graham. In the famous biblical story of Esther, the focus of the Purim holiday, a Persian ruler named King Ahasuerus faced a life-or-death ...

When Ahasuerus demands that his queen dance before the courtiers unclothed so that they may also see her beauty, Vashti refuses out of personal pride, arousing his ire.

THE DEATH OF AHASUERUS (118 pp.)—Pär Lagerkvist—Random House ($3.75). Lugging his heavy cross, a convict was toiling up the steep street of Jerusalem that led to the hill of execution.

But for how long? The book ends with disaster averted and Mordecai and Esther enjoying royal favor. Yet Ahasuerus — as vainglorious, amoral, and mercurial as ever — remains firmly on the throne.

I n the famous biblical story of Esther, the focus of the Purim holiday, a Persian ruler named King Ahasuerus faced a life-or-death crisis, one that would seem clear cut to all those with basic ...

Ahasuerus issued a new decree allowing the Jewish people to defend themselves against anyone who tried to kill them, and thus the Jewish people killed 75,000 attackers, including Haman’s 10 sons ...

Esther, the story goes, was such a looker she wound up marrying King Ahasuerus, who ruled an empire that stretched from India to Ethiopia, between 486-465 B.C.