Talmaiתלמי

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 equivalence index

The Hebrew⇄Greek equivalence index is built over the same CATSS alignment, for Esther, 1 Kings, Job and Daniel (Old Greek). The Hebrew side is lemmatised by Open Scriptures' Hebrew Bible (morphhb, CC BY 4.0). The Greek side has no free lemmatised Septuagint to draw on, so every one of the four books' distinct Greek surface forms was read and lemmatised by a language model (Claude, Anthropic), in the context of the line it occurs in, and cached once per form. That cache was checked on a blind 500-form sample against CCAT's own lxxmorph morphological analysis — obtained, like the CATSS files, under the User Declaration, and never itself published — reaching 100% adjudicated agreement once dictionary-citation-convention differences are distinguished from genuine errors. As with the alignment, only the aggregate index — lemma-pair counts and reference lists — is published; no CATSS line and no lxxmorph value appears anywhere on this site.

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

CC BY-SA — he.wikisource (via Sefaria or pulled directly) and Swete's Greek

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

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

Hebrew Wikisource lacks Esther Rabbah parashah 9. Section 9:1 is taken from the verbatim copy in the Wikisource anthology Tosafot le-Megillat Esther, which names it as its source. Sections 9:2–9:4 are the Torat Emet digital text (via Sefaria), under the same CC BY-SA grant that covers the Wikisource chapters, collated against Midrash Rabbah (Vilna: Romm, 1884), vol. 2, whose reading "Mordecai sitting in the king's gate" is restored in brackets.