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El uso de materiales enrollables como soporte de texto se remonta a la Antigüedad, y uno de los ejemplos más conocidos es el llamado rollo de Ester (‘megillah’ en hebreo), consagrado exclusivamente a la historia de la reina Ester y leído durante la festividad del Purim, una fiesta de desbordante alegría en la que se conmemora la salvación del pueblo judío en el Imperio persa del siglo v antes de Cristo, bajo el reinado de Jerjes I. La palabra
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, which is devoted solely to the story of Queen Esther and is read on the feast of Purim. An uninhibitedly joyful festival, Purim celebrates the salvation of the Jews in the Persian empire of the 5th century under the rule of King Xerxes I. The word Purim is derived from the Hebrew "pur," meaning "lot," and refers to the fact that the Persian minister Haman determined by lot the time that all Jews should be destroyed. This circumstance, related in the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Esther, is publicly read out from the
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