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Chronologically, Esther falls in the middle of Ezra, probably between chapters six and seven, around 485 BC during the early years of the reign of King Ahasuerus (Creelman 1917, 291). Since Ezra returned to Jerusalem in about 475 BC, the book probably spans a period of ten years (Hughes 2001). The Jews that remained in Persia for this period of time were being disobedient, as they were supposed t