The Book of Esther

The book of Esther records events that took place in the sixty years that came in between the work of Zerubbabel and that of Ezra. These events, of which we have no account save that supplied by our book, form a story that has nothing to do with Jerusalem or with those that had returned there under Zerubbabel and Joshua but with those that had refused to return of which there were many. Ahasuerus, the well-known Xerxes of profane history, in the third year of his reign entertains at his court...