How the Megillah Ends Esther 6—10

Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot.” So says one of America’s popular comic-book superheroes. He could have added, “And they’re a proud lot, too.” Most villains are proud and arrogant to a fault. Such was the case with Haman, the villain in the book of Esther. A bureaucrat in the court of Persian King Ahasuerus in the fifth century B.C., Haman not only enjoyed Ahasuerus’s t