Their loyal slave Simonides ( Sam Jaffe ) is preparing for an arranged marriage for his daughter, Esther ( Haya Harareet ).

Ben-Hur, Esther, and Malluch sail to Rome, where they decided to build an underground church.

finished its 21 year run in 1994, she presented a talk show, Esther, on BBC Two from 1996-2002.

* Esther, a 1996 television talk show hosted by Esther Rantzen

Ben-Hur tells Esther that he heard Jesus talk of forgiveness while on the cross, and says " I felt His voice take the sword out of my hand.

Jerome gathered all these additions together at the end of the book of Esther.

Esther discovers what has transpired ; she requests that all Jews of Shushan fast and pray for three days together with her, and on the third day she seeks an audience with Ahasuerus, during which she invites him to a feast in the company of Haman.

They go on a date together and Esther sleeps the night at his apartment.

Azucena Villaflor's remains, together with those of two other pioneer Mothers, Esther Careaga and María Eugenia Bianco, were also identified by a forensics team in mid-2005.

Almost thirty years later Kelly told Alice Pitman of The Oldie that she was " very bitter at the time, very, very bitter " and recalled that Braden's producer, Desmond Wilcox, who subsequently married Rantzen, had brought together Kelly, Rantzen and newsreader Angela Rippon for a pilot of an afternoon show, although, in Kelly's view, " it was just a front-he wanted Esther, and Angela and I were sort of left dangling.

A peace brokered by South Africa has made elections possible in Burundi, and Esther Kamatari and her Abahuza party, which means " bringing people together ," will run on the platform of restoration of the monarchy.

Esther took care of her throughout her long illness and they were together at the end.

His father was Frank Rose, a World War I veteran who operated the city's first " Karmel Korn Shop " together with his wife Esther Rose, Eugene's mother.

Five years after the crucifixion, Ben-Hur and Esther have married and had children.

After Esther tells Ben-Hur of the visit, he tries unsuccessfully to find Iras.

Ben-Hur gives Esther her freedom as a wedding present, and the audience is shown that Ben-Hur and Esther are in love even though her marriage to another man is imminent.

The women beg Esther to conceal their condition from Ben-Hur, so she tells him that his mother and sister died.

Esther hears Jesus preach the Sermon on the Mount, and tells Ben-Hur about the message of peace and forgiveness she heard.

Learning that Tirzah is dying, Ben-Hur and Esther take her and Miriam to see Jesus, but the trial of Jesus before Pontius Pilate has begun.

As Jesus died, Ben-Hur and his family, with Balthazar, Messala, and Esther clasped their hands in prayer.

Ben-Hur, now married with Esther, shared with his children his story and faith in Jesus.

" The only other Biblical book bearing the name of a woman is the Book of Esther.

The Book of Esther is a book in the Ketuvim (" writings "), the third section of the Jewish Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) and is part of the Christian Old Testament.

The biblical Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of Persia.

The name Ahasuerus is equivalent to Xerxes, both deriving from the Persian Khshayārsha, thus Ahasuerus is usually identified as Xerxes I ( 486-465 BCE ), though Ahasuerus is identified as Artaxerxes in the later Greek version of Esther ( as well as by Josephus, the Jewish commentary Esther Rabbah, the Ethiopic translation and the Christian theologian Bar-Hebraeus who identified him more precisely as Artaxerxes II ).

One of these is the orphan Esther, whose Jewish name is Hadassah.

Esther does not reveal that she is Jewish.

Scroll of Esther ( Megillah ) Esther is usually dated to the third or fourth century BCE.

* The primary source relating to the origin of Purim is the Megillat Esther ( Book of Esther ), which became the last of the 24 books of the Tanakh to be canonized by the Sages of the Great Assembly.

* The Greek Book of Esther, included in the Septuagint, is a retelling of the events of the Hebrew Book of Esther rather than a translation and records additional traditions, in particular the identification of Ahasuerus with Artaxerxes and details of various letters.

In Esther 2: 5 – 6, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE: " Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

However, according to Coogan, considerable historical inaccuracies remain throughout the text, supporting the view that the book of Esther is to be read as a historical novella which tells a story describing historical events but is not necessarily historical fact.

Alternative attempts have been made to identify her with Esther, although Esther is an orphan whose father was a Jew named Abihail.

Bar-Hebraeus identified Ahasuerus explicitly as Artaxerxes II ; however, the names are not necessarily equivalent: Hebrew has a form of the name Artaxerxes distinct from Ahasuerus, and a direct Greek rendering of Ahasuerus is used by both Josephus and the Septuagint for occurrences of the name outside the Book of Esther.

The Peter family proved wonderful and helpful friends in the following days, Mrs. Peter, little Esther, and Raoul, who generously lent me his sleeping bag for my `` Watch on the Rhine ''.

It tells the story of a Jewish girl named Esther who became queen of Persia and thwarted a plan to commit genocide against her people.

Berlin quotes a series of scholars who suggest that the author of Esther did not mean for the book to be considered as a historical writing, but intentionally wrote it to be a historical novella.

The story told in the book of Esther takes place during the rule of Ahasuerus, who has been identified as the fifth-century Persian king Xerxes ( 486-465 ).

By the time Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the Macedonians of Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther ; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a " bully " ( βουγαῖον ) where the Hebrew text describes him as an Agagite.

Wilson, who identified Ahasuerus with Xerxes I and Vashti with Amestris, suggested that both " Amestris " and " Esther " derived from Akkadian Ammi-Ishtar or Ummi-Ishtar.

Dyson has six children, two of them ( Esther and George ) with his first wife, mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson, and the other four with his second wife, Imme Dyson, a masters runner who married him in 1958.

Purim ( Hebrew: Pûrîm " lots ") is a joyous Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Persian Jews from the plot of the evil Haman, who sought to exterminate them, as recorded in the biblical Book of Esther.

Esther Marson-Smedley, a correspondent with the Daily Express who shared the train ride from Plymouth to London, then introduced him to Marjorie Maxse, who offered him a role in the War Office.

According to the Talmud there were also seven women who are counted as prophets whose message bears relevance for all generations: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Hannah ( mother of the prophet Samuel ), Abigail ( a wife of King David ), Huldah ( from the time of Jeremiah ), and Esther.

There are a number of exceptions to this rule, including the Matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah, Miriam the prophetess, Deborah the Judge, Huldah the prophetess, Abigail who married David, Rahab and Esther.

But it was National AAU champion swimmer, Esther Williams, who popularized synchronized swimming through ( often elaborately staged ) scenes in Hollywood films such as Bathing Beauty ( 1944 ), Million Dollar Mermaid ( 1952 ), and Jupiter's Darling ( 1955 ).

Heckart was born Anna Eileen Herbert in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Esther Stark, who wed Leo Herbert at her own mother's insistence so her child would not be born with the stigma of illegitimacy.

* In the book The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, the character Esther Greenwood meets a girl named Valerie in the asylum who has had a lobotomy.

The Pentecostal minister Finis Dake interprets the Bible verses Esther 2: 5 – 6 (" Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah ") to mean that Mordecai himself was exiled by Nebuchadnezzar.

It is told by a third person narrator who is very close to Esther Zepler's thoughts.

Nobody would guess that Sean, Esther, Zachary, Zelda and Kate-Sean's 19 year-old daughter by his first wife, who died of cancer-are a patchwork family.

There is Sonia Kaufman, who considers Esther as her best friend.

* Members of Sturges's unofficial " stock company " of character actors who appear in Sullivan's Travels include George Anderson, Al Bridge, Chester Conklin, Jimmy Conlin, William Demarest, Robert Dudley, Byron Foulger, Robert Greig, Harry Hayden, Esther Howard, Arthur Hoyt, J. Farrell MacDonald, Torben Meyer, Charles R. Moore, Frank Moran, Jack Norton, Franklin Pangborn, Emory Parnell, Victor Potel, Dewey Robinson, Harry Rosenthal, Julius Tannen and Robert Warwick.

Meanwhile, Mr. Green ( Keenan Wynn ) arrives at the airport to pick up his niece Martha ( Shelley Duvall ), aka " L. A. Joan ", a teenage groupie who has come to Nashville ostensibly to visit her aunt Esther Green who is sick in the hospital.