Chapter 20 IS PURIM PRE-EXILIAN OR POST-EXILIAN

In any case Purim has not been successfully connected with Zakmuk. Mr. Frazer, however, says that 'an examination of that' (the Jewish) 'tradition, and of the manner of celebrating the feast, renders it probable that Purim is nothing but a more or less disguised form of the Babylonian feast of the Sac?a or Zakmuk.'[21] We have seen that stern dates