Book of Esther
Purim (; Hebrew: ; , "lots", from the word , , translated as 'lot' in the Book of Esther, perhaps related to Akkadian , "stone, urn"; also called the Festival of Lots) is a Jewish holiday which commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an Achaemenid Persian Empire official who was planning to kill all the Jews in the empire, as recounted in the Book of Esther (, in Hebrew; usually dated to the 5th century BCE).