עלמה as a young woman can be found in Pro. 30:19. Ezra 4:9 speaks about the Elamites, עלמיא.
Hadas is myrtle. Hadassah is the feminized version of that word. A common way of creating names in Tanach.
So Vashti (that's a vav, which is assumed to have been pronounced as a w, so Washti) must be Artastuna, because some writers during the 1st century called her by a name that sounds similar to Darius I's wife name?
The Book of Esther isn't even found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, thus the Greek version of Esther is older, comparing the Greek and Hebrew.
Esther 2:7
And he brought up Hadassah, that
is, Esther, his uncle's (דּוֹד = David) daughter
The father of Esther in the Masoretic is 'אֲבִיהַיִל' and if you look at other uses of this name, for example 2 Ch 11:17 ( Abihail, wife of Rehoboam, daughter of Eliab, son of Jesse ) and 1 Ch 2:29 (Wife of Abishur was Abihail )
This suggests 'Abihail' is feminine, thus most likely Esther's mother, her father must be Aminadab.
The Septuagint version of Esther, he father is 'Amminadab' (עַמִּינָדָב)
According to Esther 2:6, 'Mordecai' was carried away with Jeconiah into the captivity of Nebuchadnezzar II .
Jeconiah - 615 BCE - 598 BCE
Nebuchadnezzer II ruled between 605 BCE - 562 BCE
Cyrus - 559 BCE to 530 BCE
Darius I - 522 BCE to 486 BCE
Xerxes I - 486 - 465 BCE
Artaxerxes 1 - 465 - 424 BCE
Esther 1:1
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus ( Masoretic)
In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the great king (Septuagint)
Bad chronology ?
