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To: nihil who wrote (21569)	11/4/1998 1:33:00 PM
From: Alan Markoff	Respond to of 39621

Nihil, <<I do not intend to accuse anyone of anything. I try, as in all things, to respect truth. I impute no motives, but I seek what motives could prompt the behavior of the heroes. >> When taking scriptures out of context to make it look like God or the Jews are bad was my point. Psalm 139 needs to be evaluated and considered for the entire context not one verse. From your observations of Esther I see that you do indeed have a problem with the Bible and Jews and that is where you are but it puts the light on your observations. In the search for truth there is no room for prejudism. There is good in Esther and Mordecai and with a positive search for good it will be found. If the search is to find fault as truth that also can be found as with everything in our lives. Due to the Babylonian captivity many Jews changed their names and identity. As we can see in the Holocaust for protection from barbaric cruelty. The Babylonians were no saints and caused fear for the Jews. Daniel did not choose this for he was taken by force to study with the King. <<This story could have been told about a heroine of any captive tribe, but I suspect that in adapting it to a Jewish collection it was easy to add the Jewish identifiers and assimilate the story to the Jewish canon, but the author did a bad job>> God wants these accounts to be related by all people to inspire faith in His concern for them as well. Actually I see the intervention of death for many people that could not defend themselves as miraculous especially if I had lived there then. <<These people are dead, if they ever lived, I have my doubts of all but Xerxes, and for him I have the evidence of the Greeks>> Like I said you have a problem with the Bible and God for you rely on the historical documentation of men but not the Bible. Later you say there is no historical fact in the book but you say here that Xerxes was a fact. All of it is OK for I am just sharing a positive view of how I have learned of the loyalty of God in thhis and it has inspired my life for the positive. I don't doubt that Esther and Mordecai were faulted but the lessons are to seek the good and not be blinded by the bad. Nancy P.S. When in history has adding Jews to a story been a benefit?