Hanging of Haman
Haman was hanged on the second day of the Passover feast (Esth. R. and Meg. l.c.). The Talmudists did not agree as to the number of Haman's sons; according to Rab there were thirty: ten had died, ten were hanged, and ten became beggars.
According to the ancient rabbis, the beggars were seventy in number; according to Rami bar Abi, there were altogether two hundred and eight (Meg. 15b). Pietro Perreau published in Steinschneider's "Hebr. Bibl." (vii. 46-47) a supposed text of Haman's circular regarding the massacre of the Jews (comp. "Midrash Panim Aḥerim," first text, ed. Buber). The manuscript, which is found in the Parma Library (No. 924), dates from the thirteenth century.
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