Esther

[BeenThinkin]

Esther, Just curious, but you're not contemplating appearing before "a King" are you? Just wondering'

Been Thinkin

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by BeenThinkin

Esther, Just curious, but you're not contemplating appearing before "a King" are you? Just wondering'

Been Thinkin

So that is why she is asking about the crown and the veil? She thought she might could make use of that veil?

[Pressing-On]

Esther,
I found this in Rabbinical Literature, which I'm sure isn't all that accurate.

Vashti was justly punished for enslaving young Jewish women and compelling them to work nude on the Sabbath (ib.).E. C. J.

Read more: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/vi...#ixzz1FIrN6QcG

Vashti: (4th century BCE) Great-granddaughter of Nebuchadnezzar, wife of Ahasuerus. Took pleasure in tormenting Jewish girls. Was executed for refusing to obey her husband's command to appear at his party.

http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword...ish/Vashti.htm

Wondering if that is where the concept of her being requested to be naked came in? I don't know. Just a thought.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Esther

I am not that familiar with the Targum and wondered how acturate it is???

The Targums or Targumim were used after the Hebrew language became unfamiliar to the Jews. The Scriptures would be read in Hebrew and then would be paraphrased in Aramaic. The word Targum means translation or interpretation. The paraphrase had to be memorized, it could not be written down. Later, the Targumim were allowed to be written down and there are a couple of them available (translated into English) online.

Since they were a paraphrase they were not a translation but an interpretation of the Hebrew and in time more and more traditions, opinions, legends, etc. found their way into them.

As an example, you can read the first 6 chapters of Genesis in the two main targumim at http://targum.info/pj/pjgen1-6.htm
Just compare what is there to current translations (NKJV or NASB or JPS) and you can see that there is some extra stuff in there and how accurate they are.

[Esther]

Originally Posted by BeenThinkin

Esther, Just curious, but you're not contemplating appearing before "a King" are you? Just wondering'

Been Thinkin

Might

[Esther]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Esther,
I found this in Rabbinical Literature, which I'm sure isn't all that accurate.





Wondering if that is where the concept of her being requested to be naked came in? I don't know. Just a thought.

I agree with you I doubt this is accurate at all.

[houston]

que cochineras

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Esther

Might

[Esther]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I'm working on a crown now.