3. There's no evidence for deposing a Persian queen.
4. The style has hyperbole & stock characters.
5. No king would allow Jews to massacre enemies.
Arg. #1 is based on misreading Est. 2:5-6, which gives Mordechai's genealogy and then says, "who was exiled from Jerusalem... with Jeconiah... whom Nebuchadnezzar... exiled." But grammatically, this could just as easily refer to Mordechai's great-grandfather Kish as to Mordechai himself.









