

Herbert Lockyer comments she “was related to a family carried away captive with Jeremiah, about 600 BC and was born of this family preferring to remain in the land of captivity rather than return to Jerusalem” ( All the Women of the Bible, page 52). But four years later she rises to the position of a queen of amazing power, a power which she manages to use wisely” (147). This film received a 2007 CAMIE Award.Įdith Deen, in her book All the Women of the Bible (1955), introduces her as first “one of the humblest of figures, an orphan Jewess. In fact the 2006 movie, One Night with the King, was ninth on the list of highest-grossing motion pictures during the week it was released. Many people are familiar with the beautiful story of Esther-the brave young Jewess who put her life on the line to save her people.
