The Prologue to Esther

The author of Esther is doing what I have been doing for the last two episodes. And that is pointing out the stupidity of this strategy. So to be clear, great king, we are going to deal with the embarrassment of what your wife did to you behind closed doors in front of a relatively small group of people. We are going to protect against the damage that that example could cause empire wide by putting it in the language of each people in each person's tongue in every known script. All three of those things. That's the plan to avoid the damage that could be done if people found out about what happened here. Okay. Now we're going to wrap it up and then tomorrow we