{"id":269,"date":"2014-03-13T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/03\/the-book-of-purim.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T09:11:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T14:11:15","slug":"the-book-of-purim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/03\/the-book-of-purim.html","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Purim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Qozz7aIE64\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This is not the Book of Mormon, but rather The Book of Purim, a cute parody of the Book of Mormon<\/p>\n<p>Purim is the Jewish holiday that commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from extermination. You can read \u00a0a summary of the story, which comes from the Old Testament Book of Esther, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/holidays\/purim\/article_cdo\/aid\/645309\/jewish\/What-Is-Purim.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">at the Chabad site<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/Judaism\/holiday9.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The JewishVirtual Library<\/a>\u00a0also has a good summary.<\/p>\n<p>Purim falls on the 14th day of Adar, which is usually March. Adar, according to the Jewish Virtual Library,\u00a0\u201cis the day that Haman chose for the extermination of the Jews.\u201d Haman is the egotistical and arrogant king of Persia and the villain of the story.<br>\n<span style=\"background-color: #ffffcc; text-align: justify;\"><br>\n<\/span>This year Purim falls on the same day as St. Patrick\u2019s Day, March 17th, so maybe as Haaretz (a website with news about Israel and the Middle East) says, we should call it St. Purim\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not the Book of Mormon, but rather The Book of Purim, a cute parody of the Book of Mormon Purim is the Jewish holiday that commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from extermination. 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