IS MORDECAI IN ESTHER HISTORICALLY ACCURATE?
“The book is a free composition, not a historical document”—Catholic Commentary
“The only character known to history is Ashasuerus”—Catholic Commentary
“Now there was at the citadel in Susa a Jew whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, who had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with captives who had been exiled with Jeconiah king of Judah, when Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had exiled”—Esther 2:5,6 NASB