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Gershon Kogan

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Open access Oct 2026

Persian Cosmology and the Archetype of Amalek: On the Theological Polemic in the Book of Esther: Dismantling Achaemenid Dualism

The article proposes a new interpretation of Megillat Esther as a philosophical text conducting systematic polemic against the Achaemenid dualistic worldview. Megillat Esther is the only text of the Tanakh in which the name of God is not mentioned even once — a fact traditionally explained by the concept of hester pānī...

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