Haman’s epithet, Agagite, indicates his descent from Agag, King of the Amalekite people. The similarity of his personality suggests this descent may be symbolic. The king had ordered Mordecai to ...

Haman, the king’s advisor, plots to annihilate the Jewish people (Esther 3:5-6). Mordecai, Esther’s cousin, urges her to reveal her heritage (Esther 7:3-6). A single night of the king’s ...

The most well-known Jewish holiday is probably either Passover or Hanukkah. Passover is prescribed in the Bible, while ...

He alerts the palace, and King Ahasuerus has those people put away and has Mordecai's good deed noted in his royal court records. The king appoints a man named Haman to be his second-in-command ...

Briefly, the Purim holiday tells the story of Haman, advisor to the Persian king, who plots to kill all the Jews in the Empire. The secretly-Jewish Queen Esther and her cousin Mordecai foil Haman ...

The king promotes his loyal subject Haman - whose family is notably anti-Jewish - to the post of first minister of the kingdom. When the Jew Mordecai fails to kneel down before Haman like all the ...

An orphan, she was raised by her older cousin Mordecai, who coached her to conceal ... But then everything changed when Haman, the king’s adviser, conceived a plot to eradicate the Jews of ...