[Avodah] Mordechai and Esther

[Saul Guberman]

 Yitzhak Grossman  wrote:

>
> There's a lot of speculation out there that Mordechai and Esther derive
> from Marduk and Ishtar, but a quick googling indicates that it is just
> that - speculation.  There seems to be no actual evidence for the
> hypothesis, and some scholars reject it, e.g.:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=RxYXAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA77,M1
>
> Anyone know anything interesting about this?
>

Per Rabbi Menchem Leibtag:
http://www.tanach.org/purim.htm
  The name Mordechai is probably the most provocative word in the entire
Megilla for it stems from the name of the Babylonian deity -Marduk (see II
Kings 25:27 & Yeshayahu 39:1!).
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