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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1996-05-09  |  1.8 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  43 seconds
Transcription: This adventure story concerns one such Jew who stayed behind, a beautiful woman named Esther. The Jews in Persia faced a grave crisis. Their success had attracted so much jealousy that a powerful man was leading a conspiracy to kill every Jew in the land. Although the book of Esther never once mentions the word God, the story highlights the many coincidences that worked together on the Jews' behalf. By the accident of her beauty and the accident of the former queen's dismissal, Esther had arisen from obscurity to become queen of the Persian Empire. She alone, of all the Jews, had access to the ...