The Babylonian Esther Midrash: To the end of Esther chapter 1

Abba gorion Aggadah aggadic aggadic midrash Ahasuerus Albeck American Translation Aramaic Babylon Babylonian Talmud baraita Bavli Belshazzar biblical Book of Esther Buber Chapters cited commentary context Continued from previous Cyrus Daniel Darius Darkhei ha-'aggadah dictum emendation Esther rabbah Esther-Midrash exegesis exegetical Exodus Ezra feast Genesis rabbah Genizah fragment Ginzberg Haman Hebrew Heinemann hermeneutical HgT¹ HgT2 homiletical homily interpretation Isaiah Israel Jacob Neusner Jacob Neusner Jacob Jehoiakim Jeremiah Jerusalem Jewish Jews Johanan Judah Judaism king Kohut Legends Leviticus rabbah literary Maharsha Memucan midrashim Mishnah Mordecai MSS G Nebuchadnezzar Neusner Jacob Neusner notes Palestinian Panim aḥerim passage pericope Persian petiḥta Pirqei derabbi Printings proem rabbinic literature Rashi Rava reading redactors reference reign Sanhedrin says scriptural Seder olam sources Spanish family Studies Talmud of Babylonia Tanhuma Targum Temple textual Torah Tractate tradition Vashti vayhi verse wicked witnesses word Yose