Colophon
Every source, and the terms it comes under.
The Greek
H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint (Cambridge, 1887–94), from the digital text at github.com/nathans/lxx-swete (CC BY-SA 4.0, derived from the Open Greek and Latin Project's First1KGreek). Rahlfs's lettering of the Additions is given as a reference; it has been checked against Rahlfs's 1935 apparatus for Additions A, B, D and F.
The alignment
The Septuagint–Masoretic alignment comes from the CATSS parallel files (Center for Computer Analysis of Texts, University of Pennsylvania), used as an index only. No CATSS text is reproduced: the Greek is Swete's and the Hebrew Miqra's, and retroversions seeded from CATSS are withheld.
The English and the apparatus
Draft English translations of the Additions, unit summaries, retroversions, verdicts, rationales and conduit rulings are the edition's own, made with Claude (Anthropic) and ruled by the editor. CC BY 4.0. The English is marked draft until reviewed.
The Hebrew and Aramaic witnesses
Public domain
- Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon) — sefaria, Mikraot Gedolot; c. 400–800
- Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a — sefaria, Vilna Edition; c. 1040–1105
- Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 49-50 — sefaria, Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer, Sefaria Vocalized Edition; c. 750–850
- Genesis Rabbah 68 — sefaria, Daat Bereshit Rabbah; c. 300–500
- Otzar Midrashim: Mordechai's Dream and Additions to the Book of Esther — sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915; c. 1100–1300
- Otzar Midrashim: The Prayer of Mordechai and Esther (Hebrew and Aramaic) — sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915; c. 950–1300
- Otzar Midrashim: The Story of Daniel (Ma'aseh Daniel) — sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915; c. 1000–1300
- Otzar Midrashim: Midrashim on Megilat Esther, Introduction — sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915; c. 1000–1500
- Otzar Midrashim: Midrash on the Book of Esther — sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915; c. 1200–1300
- Otzar Midrashim: Drash on Purim — sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915; c. 1000–1500
- Otzar Midrashim: Midrash on the Megillah (of Esther) — sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915; c. 600–1000
- Otzar Midrashim: Mordechai & Esther — sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915; c. 1000–1500
- Otzar Midrashim: Panim Acheirim (stub) — sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915; c. 1000–1500
- Otzar Midrashim: Midrash Abba Gorion (stub) — sefaria, Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915; c. 1000–1500
- Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I — sefaria, Vilna, 1886; c. 1000–1300
- Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II — sefaria, Vilna, 1886; c. 1000–1300
- Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Abba Guryon — sefaria, Vilna, 1886; c. 850–1300
- Aramaic Targum to Job 42 — sefaria, Mikraot Gedolot; c. 400–800
CC BY-SA — he.wikisource (via Sefaria or pulled directly) and Swete's Greek
- Targum Sheni on Esther — sefaria, Berlin, 1898; c. 600–1000
- Bavli Megillah 9a-17a — sefaria, Wikisource Talmud Bavli; c. 200–500
- Bavli Sanhedrin 92b-93b — sefaria, Wikisource Talmud Bavli; c. 200–500
- Bavli Bava Batra 14b-16b — sefaria, Wikisource Talmud Bavli; c. 200–500
- Esther Rabbah — wikisource, he.wikisource, Vilna pagination; c. 400–1150
- Panim Aherim (both recensions) — wikisource, he.wikisource; c. 1000–1300
- Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew) — wikisource, he.wikisource; c. 1200–2020
Hebrew/Aramaic from he.wikisource.org (via www.sefaria.org where pulled that way); Greek from H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, via github.com/nathans/lxx-swete (CC BY-SA 4.0, derived from the Open Greek and Latin Project's First1KGreek).
CC BY 4.0 — the edition's own English and apparatus
- Rashi on Esther — sefaria, The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001; c. 1040–1105
Talmai (Wroot Press), 2026. English drafted by Claude (Anthropic) for Talmai; CC BY 4.0.
Licence not stated — research only, never published verbatim
- Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061) — sefaria, Yalkut Shimoni on Nach; c. 1200–1300
The Yosippon page
Sefer Yosippon, ed. J. F. Breithaupt, Josephus Hebraicus (Gotha, 1707; reissued 1710), pp. 74–75, from the Internet Archive's scan of a Google-digitised copy (public domain).
Esther Rabbah 9:7
Hebrew Wikisource lacks Esther Rabbah parashah 9. Section 9:7 is taken from the verbatim copy in the Wikisource anthology Tosafot le-Megillat Esther, which names it as its source, and checked against the Sefaria Midrash Rabbah English (CC BY).