This article is about Esther in rabbinic literature. Esther was a Jewish prophet and queen of the Persian Empire in the Hebrew Bible, the queen of Ahasuerus, and heroine of the Book of Esther.
Allusions in rabbinic literature to the Biblical story of Esther contain various expansions, elaborations and inferences beyond the text presented in the book of the Bible.
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