Category:Esther (subject)
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Esther / Hadassah is a literary character, the protagonist of the Book of Esther
Overview
According to the Book of Esther, Hadassah was an orphaned Jewish child raised in Persia by Mordecai, her cousin, who took her as his own daughter. Hadassah was chosen by the Persia, King Ahasuerus as his new wife. She received her name Esther when she entered the royal harem. She was instrumental in saving her fellow Jews from massacre.
If the Book of Esther alludes to some historical events, they have left no trace in ancient sources. Scholarly research focuses exclusively on the study of the Book of Esther as a literary product.
Esther, in literature & the arts
- See Judith (fiction) < literature - music - cinema > / Judith (art)
Esther has enjoyed great popularity both in Judaism and Christianity, generating a flow of works of arts and fiction.
Esther, in scholarship
- See studies in the Book of Esther
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Pages in category "Esther (subject)"
The following 115 pages are in this category, out of 115 total.
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- The Legend of Good Women (1380s Chaucer), poetry (ms.)
- Storie sacre (Sacred Narratives / 1475c Tornabuoni), poetry
- Esther before Ahasuerus (1548 Tintoretto), art
- Scenes from the Life of Esther (1556 Veronese), art
- שמן המור (Oil of Myrrh / 1595 Abayuv), book (Hebrew)
- In sacros divinorvm Bibliorvm libros, Tobiam, Ivdith, Esther, Machabaeos, commentarius (1610 Serarius), book
- La Reina Ester (1615 Cebà), poetry
- Ester (1619 Modena), play
- Esther before Ahasuerus (1624 Vignon), art
- Esther (1628 Della Valle), play
- Esther before Ahasuerus (1628 Gentileschi), art
- Esther before Ahasuerus (1635 Sirani), art
- Esther before Ahasuerus (1639 Guercino), art
- Esther before Assuerus (1640 Poussin), art
- Scenes from the Life of Esther (1640 Victors), art
- Esther before Ahasuerus (1650 Cavallino), art
- Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther (1660 Rembrandt), art
- La Pellegrina ingrandita; ovvero, La Regina Ester (1666 Torre), play
- Gli sponsali d'Ester (The Nuptials of Esther / 1676 Legrenzi / Orsi), oratorio
- Ester liberatrice del popolo ebreo (Esther Liberating the Jewish People / 1677 Stradella / Orsini), oratorio
- Esther and Mordecai (1685 Gelder), art
- Female Excellency; or, The Ladies Glory (1688 Burton), book
- Esther (1689 Racine), play
- L'Esterre (Esther / 1695 Muratori-Scannabecchi / Bergamori), oratorio
- Swooning of Esther (1704 Coypel), art
- La regina Ester (1706 Saratelli), oratorio
- Esther (1708 Jacquet de La Guerre), oratorio
- L'umiltà coronata in Esther (1712 Lotti / Pariati), oratorio
- Der schönen Esther Lebensgeschichte (1713 Lehms), novel
- La regina Ester (1719 Berti / Aceti), oratorio
- L'incoronazione di Ester (1720 Ristori / Ginori), oratorio
- Esther; ovvero, L'umiltà coronata (1722 Clari), oratorio
- L'Ester (1723 Bellinzani / Ercolani), oratorio
- Ester (1723 Caldara / Fozio), oratorio
- L'Ester (1723 Orlandini / Melani), oratorio
- Ester (1724 Sarro), oratorio
- (+) Esther (1732 Haendel), oratorio
- L'Ester (1733 Manzoni Giusti), play
- Esther before Ahasuerus (1734 Ricci), art
- Ester (1740 Pampani / Cordara), oratorio
- Colección de varias historias (1767-1768 Santos Alonso), novel
- Il popolo di Giuda liberato dalla morte per intercessione della regina Ester (1768 Sacchini / G.N.C.), oratorio
- La Liberatrice del Popolo Giudaico nella Persia; o sia, L’Esther (1773 Dittersdorf / Pintus), oratorio
- אסתר (Esther / 1774 Lidarti / Saraval), oratorio
- Ester assunta al trono d'Assuero (1779 Cedronio / Recco), oratorio
- Ester (1791 Schuster), oratorio
- Ester (1795 Avelloni), play
- Ester ed Assuero (1806 Catugno / Piccinni), oratorio
- The Toilet of Esther (1841 Chassériau), art
- Esther (1844 Benouville), art
- Ester (1846 Gordigiani / Barsottini), oratorio
- Das dritte Buch Esra, die Zusätze zum Buch Esther und Daniel, das Gebet des Manasse, das Buch Baruch und der Brief des Jeremia (1851 Fritzsche), book
- Esther, the Beautiful Queen (1856 Bradbury), oratorio
- The Captive Orphan: Esther, the Queen of Persia (1859 Tyng), novel
- Ester (1862 Soldi / Metti), oratorio
- Esther (1865 Millais), art
- Queen Esther (1878 Long), art
- Kenig Ahashverosh; oder, Kenigin Ester (1887 Goldfaden), opera
- Biblical Idyls (1896 Moulton), book
- Esra, Nehemia und Esther (1901 Siegfried), book
- A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Esther (1908 Paton), book
- The Star of Love (1909 Kingsley), novel
- Esther (The Marriage of Esther / 1910 Feuillade), short film
- Esther: A Biblical Episode (1911 Frenkel), short film
- Esther (1913 Andréani), short film
- Esther (1916 Elvey), feature film
- Das Buch Esther (The Book of Esther / 1919 Krafft, Reicher), feature film
- Queen Esther (1939 Teichert), art
- Esther: die Heldentat der Königin (1947 Boxler), novel
- Queen Esther (1948 Coyle), feature film
- Women in the Old Testament: Twenty Psychological Portraits (1949 Lofts), novel
- Esther (1950 Lofts), novel
- Behold Your Queen! (1951 Malvern), novel
- Esther (1955 Weinreb), novel
- Queen of Persia (1960 Cotton), novel
- Lamp Unto My Feet: Esther (1961 CBS), TV episode
- The Book of Esther (1962 Castelnuovo-Tedesco), oratorio
- Four Strange Books of the Bible: Jonah, Daniel, Koheleth, Esther (1967 Bickerman), book
- Der Engel, die Frauen, das Heil: Tobias, Ester, Judit (1970 Dommershausen), book
- Esther (1971 Moore), book
- The Fourth Gospel and the Jews: A Study in R. Akiba, Esther, and the Gospel of John (1975 Bowman), book
- Greatest Heroes of the Bible: The Story of Esther (1979 Hively), TV episode
- The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (1979 Penn), TV film
- Esther: The Star and the Sceptre (1980 Andrews), novel
- Touch of the Golden Scepter (1981 Henderson), novel
- Studies in the Book of Esther (1981 Moore), book
- Esther, Judith, Tobit, Jonah, Ruth (1982 Craghan), book
- Esther-sŏ yŏnʼgu (1982 Gerleman / Chon), book (Korean ed.)
- The Greatest Adventure: Queen Esther (1985 Lusk, Patterson), animated TV short film
- Esther (1986 Alex / Gironi), children's novel
- Esther (1988 Traylor), novel
- The Feminine Unconventional: Four Subversive Figures in Israel's Tradition (1990 Lacocque), book
- Animated Stories from the Bible: Esther (1993 Rich), animated short film
- Esther (1993 Weisgall / Kondek), opera (music & libretto)
- The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World (1995 Wills), book
- A Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna (1997 Brenner), edited volume
- A História de Ester (Story of Esther / 1998 Piá), TV mini-series
- Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther (1998 Wijk-Bos), book
- Královna Ester: kniha Ester v pohledu synchronním a diachronním (1999 Chalupa), book
- Ester (Esther / 1999 Mertes), TV film
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- VeggieTales: Esther, the Girl Who Became Queen (2000 Nawrocki), animated short film
- Esther (2002 Bechtel), book
- The Gilded Chamber (2004 Kohn), novel
- Hadassah: One Night with the King (2004 Tenney/Olsen), novel
- Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther (2005 Garrett), novel
- One Night with the King (2006 Sajbel), feature film
- Esther: A Star Is Born (2009 Booth), juvenile novel
- A História de Ester (Story of Esther / 2010 Camargo), TV mini-series
- Deuterocanonical Additions of the Old Testament Books (2010 Xeravits, Zsengellér), edited volume
- Tendentious Hagiographies: Jewish Propagandist Fiction BCE (2011 Chyutin), book
- A Reluctant Queen: The Love Story of Esther (2011 Wolf), novel
- The Book of Esther (2013 White), feature film
- Purim: The Lot (2014 Khusid), animated feature film
- Esther (2015 Hunt), novel
- The Book of Conviviality in Exile (2015 Wechsler), book
Media in category "Esther (subject)"
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