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 On the additions to the book of Esther in the Alexandrinian version, which Luther, after the example of Jerome, excluded from the book and relegated to the Apocrypha under the title of Stücke in Esther, comp. my ''Lehrb. der Einleitung, 237, and O. F. Fritzsche's kurzgef. exeget. Hdb. zu den Apokryphen des N. T.'' p. 68f. For the exegetic literature, see ''Lehrb. der Einl.'' v. 150. Comp. also E. Ph. L. Calmberg, liber Esterae interpretatione latina brevique commentario illustr., Hamb. 1837, 4, and Bertheau's Commentary, quoted p. 12. =Chap. 1=

The Banquet of King Ahashverosh and the Divorce of Queen Vashti - Esther 1
Ahashverosh,