The History of Esther

Esther is not mentioned extra biblically. And for that matter, neither is Vashti again. We're talking about a time in the world where you've got five or ten different names for everybody and all of these different languages. Persia was trying to do the thing where it was the empire of all the land to send all the languages. But remember, Esther has a secret. She's Hadassah; we don't know the consequences of that secret yet, but it's a vulnerability.