inspired many hoaxes, nearly all of them quite harmless jokes, such as the anal analogue suggested by this jester. The textual emendation of bMegillah 12b on which this poem is based was inspired by ...

The story of Esther would have taken place in the third year of Xerxes’ reign in 483 BCE, noted Dr. Yigal Bloch, curator of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem. Of all the characters mentioned in the ...

Darius the Great is the father of King Ahasuerus, also known as the biblical Achashverosh from the story of Purim • Discovery was made by the international media adviser to President Isaac Herzog An ...

With Purim around the corner, it occurs to me that many people see Donald Trump as Haman, the genocidal villain of the Purim story. That’s not quite right: He’s Ahasuerus, a different kind of danger, ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced that an inscription bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great is not authentic. Following the publication, the expert who participated in the ...