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.
John Collins's Introduction (p.598) asserts that #Esther is entirely fictional, ahistorical, & that scholars who "try to salvage a historical core from this fantastic story are only slightly less gullible than their precritical ancestors"! He makes 5 arguments against its historicity:
1. Mordechai was exiled by Nebuchadnezzar (597) but was active in reign of Xerxes (r. 486-465)
2. Esther says 127 satrapies, but only 20-23 existed.
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