Ophir Yarden is a senior lecturer at Brigham Young University’s Jerusalem Center. He earned M.A. degrees at the University of Chicago and the Schechter Institute – J.T.S. Ophir is author of Judaism: A First Encounter (forthcoming) and is the ADAShA Program Director at the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue.
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March 9, 2022
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Although Judea is one of the provinces of the multicultural empire of Persia, the book of Esther never mentions it. Rather, it grapples with the precarious position of Jews scattered throughout Persia, outside their ancestral homeland, and who stand out among the non-Jews in their insistence on keeping to their cultural rules and norms.
Although Judea is one of the provinces of the multicultural empire of Persia, the book of Esther never mentions it. Rather, it grapples with the precarious position of Jews scattered throughout Persia, outside their ancestral homeland, and who stand out among the non-Jews in their insistence on keeping to their cultural rules and norms.
