Scroll of Esther - Abelard Reuchlin

THE

S~OLL

OF

~T~R-~IL~S

Piso created Mordochaios story,

AND

a second

and ~sther

H~ROES

holiday

for the Jews with his story of

and the villain

he wrote this story

(~)~man.

Li~e ~h@-Cha~r~ah

too first in his Jewish

Antiquities

about" the year 90. Then he redid it to make it "biblical" Greek

book of Esther

abo~t the-year

1OO when ne was_just

as the

finishing

his Vita and Contra Apionem. This

story

Belshazzar’s

starts

with

feast in chapter

A~asueros’

feast~

~% reminds

us of

V of Daniel but is longer and much

mort detailed. Like Piso’s this story

story of the Hasmoneans,

(whil~ it too is entirely

triumph

over their enemies--first

Esther,

then by their

enemies

who w~re planning

Piso inserted the Min. parallei

by prayer

bloody retaliation

include

Jewish

and the heroism

against

and

their countles~

their annihilation.

himself

his namesake

60 cubits

of his Family story!

fictional)

of

as the villain,

Aman (Haman),

that

He was playing Aman, second in command to the king, to

to Pharaoh in Egypt. a cross

both his versions

Joseph

having

been named

In his Antiquities

second

in command

he had crucified

tall, because 60 of course was the secret expression

name.

Piso was thus deliberately

mocking

his own Jesus

The words of Alfred Noyes, British poet laurea%e,

The Ghost of Shakespeare, "...Laughing

Aman on

in his

come to mind:

at his work, and che world as I thought,

~o~k~ng his own music, these wraiths~

of his rhymes."

Nor was he apparently this

s~