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originates there from Mithraism not the Bible which rebukes that title in fact in the
New Testament. It was one of the 7 grades of initiates in Mithraism in fact. [57] The
Mithraic Pater Patrum was the high priest in Persia as well thus the title was for a Priest.
[58] However, in Ezra’s days, he was a Priest of Yahuah but in service of the King of
Persia before returning to Yerusalem. The king knew him and he found favor with the
king who even refers to him as Priest Ezra. In other words, Pater Ezra (EZA) makes
perfect sense. Pater Esther is nonsense. She was no father nor a priest but a concubine
whose story doesn’t even have a Biblical foundation in any sense as her God is never
even identified. A secular story that somehow was included in canons which follow the
Pharisees not the Biblical historical tradition. One would think this obvious.
“…and amid the officials of the royal apparel...” –4QProto-Esthera, p. 619 [48]
Though Esther says “that Esther put on her royal apparel” (Est. 5:1), and Mordecai
is later paraded in “royal apparel” this fragment says the officials of royal apparel not
Esther nor Mordecai. This, again, sounds like the story in 1st Esdras of the Three
Bodyguards who compete as to whom is wisest. Whoever wins will be given royal
apparel for one, but they also appear before the counsel who would be arrayed in such
as well and that is the context of this fragment as the officials are the one’s arrayed not
Esther nor Zerubbabel. Frankly, this portion tells us again, this is not specific to Esther.
1 Esdras 3:4-7
“Then three young men that were of the guard, that kept the kings body, spoke one to another:
Let every one of us speak a sentence: he that shall overcome, and whose sentence shall seem
wiser than the others, unto him shall the king Darius give great gifts, and great things in token
of victory: As to be clothed in purple, to drink in gold, and to sleep upon gold, and a chariot
with bridles of gold, and an head-tire of fine linen, and a chain about his neck: And he shall
sit next to Darius, because of his wisdom, and shall be called, Darius his cousin.
(Darius agrees to this and more in 1st Esdras 3:13-15)
1st Esdras presents an exact match to these fragments in which Esther fails.
“...to work in the service of the king in accordance with all that you have received...”
–4QProto-Esthera, p. 619 [48]
This applies in both stories perhaps but more so in 1st Esdras than Esther. Neither is a
direct quote verbatim but this is a “proto” fragment not an exact quote. For Zerubbabel
in 1st Esdras, one of the King’s bodyguards in his service, was a contest winner in which
this makes the most sense in context. With his winnings, he would be required to still
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