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Historians are pretty sure that the story contained in the Book of Esther is a work of fiction, and likely was always intended to be. So Haman, like most everyone else in the story, appears to be fictional. The only character that appears in it that is historical is Xerxes I (assuming that Artaxerxes is meant to be Xerxes), and his characterization seems ...
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