[
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-01",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1722",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Witness dates Mordecai's dream to 'בשנה השנית למלך אחשורוש' (the second year of Ahasuerus), matching the plus's dating of the dream to Artaxerxes' second year — a detail with no MT basis at all (MT has no dream).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-01",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "ER dates Mordecai's dream 'in the second year of King Ahasuerus,' the same regnal-year datum as Addition A's date; MT never narrates this dream at all, so the shared year is a specific non-MT detail (genealogy/tribe is not supplied).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-02",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1657",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "R. Shimon answers exactly the plus's implicit question — why this one man is singled out as 'a Jewish man' — with his royal descent and lifelong abstention, a specific reason not supplied by MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-02",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1686",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther is made to ask the king to seat a righteous Jew at the gate as earlier kings seated Daniel, and Mordecai is installed there on that basis — a specific origin-story for his court service that MT does not supply.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-04",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1722",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'רעש ורעד חזק מאד וקול בהלה... ופחד ורעד' is a matching cluster of terms (tremor, tumult, terror) across the wording of the plus's 'voices and tumult, thunders and earthquake, confusion,' material found nowhere in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-04",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'וירא והנה רעש גדול וחזק ובהלה על הארץ...ופחד ורעד' renders multiple elements of the Greek verbatim — earthquake (σεισμός/רעש), confusion (τάραχος/בהלה), and the exact phrase 'on the earth' (ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς = על הארץ) — none of it MT's, all of it the dream's opening.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-05",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1722",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'שני תנינים גדולים זה לקראת זה למלחמה' is the specific image of two great dragons advancing to fight, matching the plus precisely; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-05",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'והנה שני תנינים גדולים ויריעו זה לקראת זה ויערכו מלחמה' directly renders 'δύο δράκοντες μεγάλοι...παλαίειν' — two great dragons drawn up for battle — a specific image with no MT source, matched across the number, size, and combative posture.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-05",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The witness's dream has a great serpent (nachash gadol) rising from among the gathered nations and closing on the small nation to harm it -- the same dream-antagonist slot as the Greek's two dragons, a detail wholly absent from MT (which has no dream).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-06",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Many nations gathered... a small and despised nation stood apart' matches the plus's 'every nation prepared for war...against a righteous nation' -- the massed-nations-vs-singled-out-nation configuration, unique to the dream tradition.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-06",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0392",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The night-midrash's 'the kings of the nations did not devise against us such a design... to wipe us off the face of the earth' shares the specific image of all nations mustering to destroy Israel, absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-06",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'לקולם כל גויי הארץ...כל הגוים על הגוי הקטן' renders 'τῇ φωνῇ αὐτῶν...πᾶν ἔθνος...δικαίων ἔθνος' — nations mustering at the dragons' voice against the small/righteous nation — matched in both the triggering voice and the target.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-06",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1722",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'וירוצו לקולם כל הארץ... ויקומו כל הגוים על גוי קטן' reproduces across two clauses the plus's 'every nation prepared for war... against a righteous nation,' with no MT counterpart.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-08",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1898",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The full witness text has Mordecai divide sages, students, nursing infants and hair-loosed women who 'weep and eulogize over Mordecai and over their own souls' -- the specific detail of a righteous assembly, fearing for its own life, that MT nowhere supplies, matching the plus's 'righteous nation troubled, fearing its own evils, prepared to perish'.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-09",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ויזעקו אל ה'...מעין מים אחד קטן...ויהי לנחל שוטף' directly renders 'ἐβόησαν πρὸς τὸν θεόν...ἀπὸ μικρᾶς πηγῆς ποταμὸς μέγας' — cry to God, then a small spring becoming a great flooding river — an exact narrative sequence absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-09",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1722",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ויצעק אל ה'... ויגדל המעין ויהי לנחל שוטף' matches across two clauses the plus's distinctive 'they cried out to God... a great river, much water,' an image absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-10",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'The cloud and gloom lifted from that nation and the sun and light shone on it as at first' matches the plus's light-and-sunrise resolution of the dream at the same narrative position.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-10",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1722",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ויזרח השמש ויאר... ויתרומם הגוי הקטן' matches across two clauses the plus's 'the sun rose... the lowly were exalted,' an image absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-11",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Mordecai awoke from his sleep and wrote that dream... and kept the matter and sealed this secret' matches the plus's Mordecai waking, keeping the dream in his heart, and seeking to understand it.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-11",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'וינצר מרדכי את החלום אשר חלם' shares the specific act of Mordecai guarding/keeping the dream after waking, a detail with no MT basis, though shorter than the surrounding verbatim clauses.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-15",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2109",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ונכתב בספר הזכרונות... ויתן לו מתן רב' renders Addition A's doubled record and royal reward, content absent from MT's bare notice.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-15",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1742",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'ויש אומרים אליהו ז\"ל בא וכתבן' supplies a second, non-royal writer of the memorial alongside the king's scribe — the same doubling the plus makes with 'the king wrote... and Mordecai wrote,' a detail MT lacks.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-16",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2109",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ולמרדכי צוה המלך לעמוד בבית מלכותו ויתן לו מתן רב' directly renders Addition A's appointment to court service and gift, not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-17",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2109",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'והמן האגגי היה נשא... להשטין למרדכי ולעמו בעבור אלו שני הסריסים' reproduces Addition A's distinctive etiology of Haman's enmity from the eunuch affair, absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-01",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The midrash quotes Haman's anti-Jewish letter as a full document with an epistolary opening ('Peace to you...we inform you'), the same device Addition B uses to quote the royal edict verbatim -- a narration MT never supplies (MT only summarizes the letters).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-03",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2077",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'הואיל וכך נמלך בחכמים ובחרטמים' (the king takes counsel with sages/magicians) matches Addition B's 'πυθομένου δέ μου τῶν συμβούλων' (I inquired of my counselors) — a shared non-MT council scene inserted before the decree.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-03",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2112",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'היה שם אחד מעולה מכלם בחכמתו ואמונתו משנה למלך ושמו המן' renders Addition B's specific characterization of Haman as second in honor for wisdom and loyalty, beyond MT 3:1.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-05",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The letter's dossier of historical grievances (Pharaoh repaid with plunder, Joshua's slaughter of kings, David's pitiless conquests) supplies exactly the edict's rationale that this nation alone stands in constant opposition to every man -- an elaborate justification MT never gives.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-05",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1578",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's speech that the nation is unlike all others, with no righteous among them and greatly different from every people, matches the edict's charge that this nation alone stands opposed to all mankind -- elaboration beyond MT's bare 'laws differ.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-07",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2112",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'הנבלים כלם ירדו ביום אחד שאולה' renders Addition B's closing purpose clause (enemies to Hades in one day), absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-01",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1740",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Ahasuerus objects that Israel cannot be destroyed because 'אין אנו יכולים שאין אלקיהם עוזבם כל עיקר' — the enemy conceding the plus's claim that none can oppose God when he wills to save Israel; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-02",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1740",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The sages' warning that destroying Israel would unmake 'חקות שמים וארץ' grounds God's unopposable dominion in his making heaven and earth, matching the plus; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2091",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'כי לא מגבהות לב ומרום עין עשיתי אשר לא השתחויתי להמן' precisely matches Addition C's disclaimer — not from insolence/pride/love of glory did I refuse to bow to Haman — across multiple corresponding clauses, and is absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1578",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The passage explains Mordecai's refusal to bow as avoidance of idolatry (Haman's garment bore an idol's image), the same apologetic move as the prayer's denial that insolence or pride motivated the refusal.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-megillah-1599",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Why did Mordecai not bow to him? For two reasons: because he was his slave, and because he was clothed in garments bearing an idol's image' -- an explicit non-pride rationale for the refusal, matching the prayer's exculpation.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1918",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The witness supplies Mordecai's own justification for non-bowing -- refusal of idolatry (Haman's idol embroidered on his heart) and preserving the Shekhinah -- the same specific 'not insolence but obligation' apologia Addition C puts in Mordecai's prayer.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2091",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'כי לוחך הייתי מנעל רגליו' (I would have licked the sole of his shoe) matches 'ηὐδόκουν φιλεῖν πέλματα ποδῶν αὐτοῦ' (I would gladly have kissed the soles of his feet) — a unique, specific image tied to the same 'for Israel's sake' logic, not MT's.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1578",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The idolatrous-garment rationale for refusing to bow matches the plus's 'I did this so that I might not set the glory of a man above the glory of God.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-05",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's own prayer in the passage -- 'You swore to the fathers to multiply their seed like the stars of heaven... remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob' -- matches Addition C's petition invoking the God of Abraham to spare his people, a prayer MT does not narrate at all.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-05",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1975",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Both texts frame the enemy's aim as total, ancient destruction rather than plunder -- Nebuchadnezzar then Haman decreeing 'not a half or a third but the whole vine' -- matching Addition C's non-MT 'they have desired to destroy your inheritance from the beginning.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-08",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2091",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ותפרע שער ראשה' (she let her hair down) is part of the same densely-matching sentence as the robes/sackcloth/ashes clause, corresponding to Addition C's 'ἔπλησε στρεπτῶν τριχῶν αὐτῆς' (filled with her disheveled hair).",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-09",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2091",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'נשארתי יתומה בלי אב ואם' / 'משולה לעניה שואלת מבית לבית' (left an orphan; like a beggar going house to house) shares the theme of Esther's utter aloneness with Addition C's 'help me, alone as I am, having no helper but you' — a specific, non-MT elaboration of her isolation.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-10",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1740",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The nations are called 'נכרים' while Israel is God's 'עם קרובו' whom none may touch — matching the plus's 'you took Israel out of all the nations... for an everlasting inheritance'; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1975",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Both supply a cause MT withholds: the decree is punishment for Israel's own sin (the 18,900 who feasted with the gentiles), matching Addition C's confession 'we have sinned before you... you are righteous, Lord.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2077",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "ER's Torah emerging in widow's garments weeping, and the sages arguing the world exists only for Torah, matches Addition C's specific complex — enemies seeking to abolish 'the decree of your mouth,' destroy the inheritance, and quench the altar's glory — a shared non-MT framing of the crisis as endangering God's own cult/covenant.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Satan's request and God's objection 'what will become of the Torah?', with the Torah appearing in widow's garb and the angels crying 'if Israel ceases, why are we?', casts Israel's destruction as an attack on God's own word and praise -- the specific frame of the plus's charge that the enemies aim to abolish God's decree and silence his praise.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2075",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The angelic princes' pleas (e.g., 'if Israel ceases, who offers the sacrifice?') match the same Addition C complex — enemies aiming to silence praise and quench the altar — a specific non-MT theological framing of the threat as cultic.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-16",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2091",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'והשפילהו לפני כי אתה משפיל גאים' (humble him before me) matches Addition C's request that God put a persuasive word in her mouth and turn the king's heart — a shared, non-MT prayer asking God to directly alter the king's disposition before the audience.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2077",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'לא תלכו לאכול בסעודתו של אחשורוש' (Mordecai's warning not to attend the king's feast) shares the specific, non-MT theme of banquet-abstention as a piety marker with Addition C's 'I have not eaten at Haman's table nor honored the king's banquet.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1975",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's non-MT proclamation that Israel should not attend the king's banquet ('since it is voluntary, do not go') makes abstention the pious act -- exactly what Addition C has Esther plead she has done.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-20",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2091",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'משולה לעניה שואלת מבית לבית' describes Esther's queenship itself as unrelieved wretchedness, matching Addition C's specific claim that she has had 'no joy' since becoming queen except in God — a shared non-MT characterization of her marriage as affliction.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-21",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2091",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'והצילה את צאן מרעיתך מן האויבים האלו אשר קמו עלינו' is the closing deliverance plea of the same non-MT prayer scene that supplies Addition C's closing petition to be delivered from the wicked.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-01",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1887",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Both texts specify the THIRD DAY as the moment Esther is divinely reclothed in royal splendor after ashes/sackcloth -- a specific shared narrative beat (day-number plus divine reclothing) that MT nowhere supplies.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-04",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1829",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The witness's extended ekphrasis of Solomon's jewelled, gold-and-gem throne (with terrifying mechanisms) matches the plus's distinctive image of the king 'entirely in gold and precious stones, and very fearsome' at the audience scene -- a specific shared elaboration MT lacks.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-01",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1733",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "One angel 'הגביה את צוארה' while another stretches the sceptre to reach her — both locate the royal contact specifically at her neck, matching the plus's king touching the golden rod to her neck; not MT (MT has only the sceptre extended, no neck).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-02",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'אנשים רבים התנהגו הנהגה רעה מהחסד וכבוד המלכים... יתנכלו לאדון' renders Addition E's reflection that the over-honored grow arrogant and plot against their benefactors, absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-02",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1972",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The letter's governing theorem -- beneficiaries repay benefactors with harm, worked through Pharaoh who fed Israel and was repaid with the despoiling -- is Addition E's own opening theorem, applied in the same genre (a royal letter about the Jews) to the opposite party.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-03",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'יחשבו אשר כח בהם מיעודי השם הרואה הכל' renders Addition E's charge that the ungrateful suppose they escape the all-seeing God's justice, not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-04",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2077",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'מיד קבלו דבריו והסכימה דעתם לכלות את ישראל וכתבו אגרות וחתמו' (the sages are persuaded and become signatories) matches Addition E's specific claim that persuasion by trusted advisors 'made many partners in innocent blood' — the same non-MT scene of counselors implicated.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-04",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'מסיתים אזנים השומעות הפשוטות מהמלכים בתרמית' renders Addition E's complaint of trusted officials implicating rulers in innocent blood, not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-05",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2077",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's lie that Israel's God 'has grown old and can do nothing' overturning the sages' initial refusal matches Addition E's abstract description of malice deceiving 'the sincere good faith of those who hold power' — the same non-MT scene of deceptive persuasion.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-06",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'דבר מפורסם בספורים ראשונים ישנים ונראה בכל יום' renders Addition E's rhetorical appeal to old histories versus what is close at hand, not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-07",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'להביט בשלום כל המדינות... כפי צורך העת והזמן' renders Addition E's resolve to judge circumstances more equitably, not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2077",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's letter calling himself 'not from our place... of the seed of Amalek' frames him as an outsider within the Persian court, matching Addition E's characterization of Haman as 'a stranger to the blood of the Persians... a Macedonian' — both independently supply a foreigner-status for Haman absent from MT's bare 'Agagite,' though the specific ethnicity differs.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'המן... מלב מקדניא... נקרא אבינו' renders Addition E's distinctive Macedonian-outsider-made-'father' characterization of Haman, contrary to MT's silence on his origin.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'A man came to us, not from our place and not from our nation... Haman' frames Haman as an arriving outsider elevated by royal favor, the same narrative beat as Addition E's 'a Macedonian, a stranger to the blood of the Persians... proclaimed our father' -- though the witness's ethnonym (Amalek, drawn from MT's 'Agagite') differs from the Greek's Macedonian.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'חשב להמית מרדכי היהודי... ואסתר ריעת המלך עם כל עמה' names both Mordecai and Esther as the plot's target exactly as Addition E does, beyond MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1747",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "At Haman's crown request the king's face changes: 'זהו שראיתי בחלום שהיה מבקש להרגני' — the specific charge that Haman sought the king's own life, matching the plus; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-10",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ומלכות הפרסיים תסוב לאנשי מקדון' renders Addition E's distinctive charge that Haman aimed to transfer the empire to the Macedonians, absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-10",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1747",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's request for the crown is read as a direct bid for the kingship itself, matching the plus's charge that he aimed to transfer the dominion; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The assembled sages refuse Haman's request and vindicate Israel as God's 'near ones' whom the world cannot stand without, matching the counter-edict's finding that the Jews are not evildoers but sons of the living God -- the same vindication-within-the-letter-scene.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'שנראה אותם מחזיקים בדת יושר. ובני עליון ואלהים חיים' renders Addition E's apologetic 'sons of the Most High, the living God' language, foreign to MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1969",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "MT never has the Persian king speak of God; both here and in Addition E's letter the king himself concedes the Jews' God is great and protects them -- a shared non-MT theological move in the same speaker's mouth.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1915",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The witness extends Haman's ruin explicitly to his household (friends and Zeresh his wife, 'ke-gelalo la-netzach'), matching the plus's 'crucified... together with his whole household' -- an extension beyond MT, which names only the ten sons.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "otzar-drash-purim-1592",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "God breaks the seal, tears the letter, frustrates Haman's plan, and Haman is hanged -- matching the counter-edict's annulment of Haman's letters and the swift judgment rendered on him, a supernatural undoing of the decree MT does not narrate this way.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'הנה הוא תלוי על העץ אל עיר שושן' renders Addition E's distinctive detail that Haman was already executed at the gates of Susa, a location MT does not give.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1581",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "God takes and tears the letters, annulling the decree, while Haman is destroyed on his own gallows and his household falls (his daughter dies) -- matching the counter-edict's revocation of Haman's letters and judgment on him 'together with his whole household.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-13",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'יעזבו היהודים להחזיק בדת הראויה להם' renders Addition E's distinctive clause letting Jews live by their own law, not present in MT's parallel decree.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-14",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'זה היום יום בכי ומספד יהפך מיגון לשמחה' directly renders Addition E's day turned from destruction to joy.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-15",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'זה היום תשימו במועדיכם... לבעבור אשר יהי נכרים לפני עובדי פרסיים' renders Addition E's distinctive clause that the Persians too keep the day as festival, a detail absent from MT's Jews-only Purim.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-16",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'תאבד ותדלק באש ובחרב... אף מקניהם וכל בהמתם' renders Addition E's threat of destruction extended to cattle and beasts, not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-01",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2111",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ויאמר מרדכי על יד האל נעשו אלה הדברים' directly renders Addition F's opening line; the whole dream-interpretation scene is absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-01",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1801",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'After these things' is read as 'after God created the remedy for Israel's wound... he never strikes without first creating the cure' -- the same providential-arrangement verdict as the plus's 'these things have come from God.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-01",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1906",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "God 'sees the wound and readies the dressing first' -- Noah before the flood, Moses before the bondage, and here 'before Haman arose, God set up their redeemer' -- the identical theological verdict of providential arrangement as the plus's 'these things have come from God.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-02",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1365",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai is specifically named among the prophets active 'in year two of Darius,' matching Addition F's claim that his dream was a true, fully-fulfilled prophecy -- a status MT never assigns him.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-02",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'He knew for certain that a great trouble was passing over Israel and that from it he would be saved' treats the dream as reliable foreknowledge that came entirely true, matching the plus's 'not one word of it has failed to come to pass.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-02",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'הנה החלום אשר ספרתי לך בימי נעוריך' — Mordecai recalling his earlier dream to Esther at the moment of crisis — matches Addition F's 'I remembered the dream I saw...not one word of it has failed' — the same narrative beat (recalling the dream as it comes true), though the specific 'not one word failed' phrasing is not reproduced.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-02",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2111",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'וזוכר אני מהחלום אשר חלמתי... ושאינו דבר בטל' renders Addition F's recollection that not one word of the dream failed, absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-03",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2111",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'המעין היה לנהר גדול... היא אסתר אשר לקחה המלך לאשה' renders Addition F's allegorical identification of the river with Esther, a device foreign to MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-03",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The spring-becomes-river/light/sun imagery recurs in the same retelling, matching Addition F's identification scene, though ER does not supply F's explicit interpretive key (spring = Esther) — the imagery is specific and non-MT even without the naming.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-04",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1638",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'לעשות כרצון מרדכי והמן... לרומם אחד ולצלוב אחד' names Mordecai and Haman as the two irreconcilable figures resolved only by raising one and hanging the other — the specific identification Addition F makes of the two dragons; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-04",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2111",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'והשני אריות אני והמן' renders Addition F's identification of the two combatants as Mordecai and Haman (here lions rather than dragons), absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-04",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1826",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The witness explicitly pairs Mordecai and Haman as opposed principals sent down as rival envoys (one to build the Temple, one to stop it) -- matching Addition F's identification of the two dragons as specifically Mordecai and Haman as persons, not empires.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-05",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Many nations gathered in that place' as the dream's hostile party matches the plus's identification of the nations as 'those gathered together to destroy the name of the Jews.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-05",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2111",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'עמים רבים הנאספים הם אשר החזיקו... להשכיח שם מהיהודים' renders Addition F's identification of the gathered nations, not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-05",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0392",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Same clause as above ('kings devised no such design... to wipe us from the face of the earth') matches Addition F's own gloss identifying the nations as those gathered to destroy the Jews.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-06",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1579",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The small, despised nation delivered by God's storm after Mordecai's weeping and prayer matches the plus's identification of 'my nation' as Israel, who cried out to God and were saved.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-06",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2111",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ועם הישרים הוא ישראל' directly renders Addition F's 'my nation, this is Israel,' the dream-decoding device absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-06",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1979",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Both relocate the cause of rescue from Esther's diplomacy to the outcry of the people/children, matching Addition F's interpretive key 'my nation, this is Israel, who cried out to God and were saved,' against MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-06",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ויזעקו אל ה'' directly renders 'ἐβόησαν πρὸς τὸν θεόν' (cried out to God) — the same clause independently supports Addition F's later recap that 'my nation... cried out to God and were saved.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-06",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1898",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The full witness text (assembly weeping and eulogizing, 'and God heard their prayer and Mordecai's prayer') matches the plus's 'my nation is Israel, who cried out to God and were saved' precisely -- crying out and being saved.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-07",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2077",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'אומה שבשבילה הרביתי אותותי ומופתי לכל הקמים עליהם לרעה' (a nation for whose sake I multiplied signs and wonders against those who rose against them) matches Addition F's claim that God 'did signs and great wonders such as have not happened among the nations' — both apply classic Exodus 'signs and wonders' language to the Esther crisis specifically, a move MT itself never makes (MT never mentions God explicitly).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-07",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2111",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ה' הושיעם מכל צרה ועשה אותות ומופתים לעיני העמים' renders Addition F's signs and wonders before the nations, not MT's language.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-08",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2111",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'שיהיו שני גורלות האחד מעם האל והאחד מכל הגוים' renders Addition F's allegorical two lots (God's people vs. the nations), a device absent from MT's bare pur.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-08",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2075",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "ER's dual scheme — Haman's own lot ('גורלך עולה להצלב') set against the 'lot of the righteous' (Ps 125:3) — matches Addition F's specific interpretive claim that God made 'two lots, one for the people of God and one for all the nations,' an allegorical gloss beyond MT's bare mention of the pur.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-08",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1870",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The king and Haman cast a genuine two-outcome lot between themselves (one lot for the people, one for the silver) -- a structurally two-sided lot-ordeal matching Addition F's 'he made two lots, one for the people of God and one for all the nations,' unlike other witnesses' single serial lot-casting.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-08",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1712",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman and Ahasuerus cast lots over whether the people or the silver falls to each, and the Spirit cries 'ועל עמי ידו גורל' — a lot specifically 'for my people,' matching Addition F's two lots, one for God's people; not the same content as MT's pur (which is only about timing).",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-09",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2075",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "ER's day-by-month search for the lot's target, resolved only through the angelic princes' pleading and Israel's vindication, matches Addition F's 'these two lots came to the hour and appointed time...and God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance' — the same non-MT elaboration of the lot-casting process.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-09",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2111",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'עד בוא יום הנועד מאת ה' על העמים... זכר עמו ורחם על נחלתו' renders Addition F's appointed day of judgment and vindication, not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-13",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1305",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rashi supplies the specific detail of how Mordecai understood the plot -- the conspirators spoke Tarsian -- filling exactly the gap Addition A covers with 'overheard their reasonings.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-01",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1310",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'God created the remedy before the blow that was to come' is the same providence-precedes-crisis claim Addition F makes: 'these things have come from God ... not one word of it failed.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-02",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1373",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Haman rose higher than Ahasuerus, saying what never entered the king's mind' is the specific favorite-outgrows-benefactor arrogance Addition E describes.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-03",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1412",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The angels' night-long cry 'ingrate, repay the one who did you a kindness' is Addition E's specific charge of doing away with gratitude toward a benefactor.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1427",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "A gentile voice conceding 'if he is of the seed of the Jews you will not prevail' matches the king's concession that the Jews are 'sons of the living God.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1446",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's ten sons dying together ('their souls fell as one') matches Addition E's notice that he was crucified 'together with his whole household.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-14",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1416",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'He prepared it for himself' -- the gallows recoiling on its builder -- is the specific reversal Addition C's petition anticipates: 'turn their own plan back upon them.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-14",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1409",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Punishment coming to the wicked 'out of their own banquet' is the same reversal-at-their-own-hand Addition C's petition requests.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-09",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1313",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The providence explanation for why the lot fell in Adar (Moses' death offset by his birth) is the same claim of God overruling the pagan lot that Addition F makes about the 'appointed day.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1271",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Whoever denies idolatry is called a Jew' is the specific anti-idolatry rationale Addition C gives for the refusal: not exalting a man's glory above God's.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1229",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Israel's bowing to Nebuchadnezzar's image as the ground of liability matches Addition C's specific confession, 'we have sinned ... because we glorified their gods.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1180",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Ahasuerus's specific attempt to halt Zerubbabel's Temple foundation is the concrete 'destroy your house and altar' aim Addition C attributes to the enemies.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1181",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Sitnah -- appointed as an adversary so they would not build it' continues the same specific campaign against God's house Addition C names.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1402",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The Temple's exclusion from 'even to half the kingdom' is the concrete referent of the 'house' Addition C says the enemies mean to quench.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1442",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Light -- this is Torah, for Haman decreed against studying it' matches Addition C's charge that the enemies set out to abolish God's own decree.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1444",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman's decree against circumcision specifically targets a divine commandment, matching 'abolish the decree of your own mouth.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1286",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther secretly keeping the Sabbath via her seven maids is a specific act of court piety matching Addition C's insistence on observance at court.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1287",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Whether Esther ate forbidden food in the palace is exactly the scandal Addition C forecloses by having her deny eating at Haman's table or the king's feast.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1288",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Daniel's steward removing the king's food and wine is applied here as the specific model for Esther's own abstention, matching 'nor drunk the wine of libations.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1406",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther's stated revulsion at 'drawing near Israel's enemy ... flatter this wicked man' is the same disgust at proximity to Haman Addition C voices.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1303",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther's immersion so as not to be repulsive to 'the righteous man' after lying with the gentile king matches Addition C's abhorrence of 'the bed of the uncircumcised.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1379",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Until now I was taken by force' is Esther's own account of coercion in the union Addition C disavows.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1380",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'From now on, of my own will' -- marking the point the union becomes culpable -- belongs to the same account of the marriage Addition C disowns.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1381",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'I am lost to you and forbidden to you' states the specific defilement of the union Addition C denies ever embracing.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1397",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Even though I go to him of my own accord, it is coercion' is the same plea of unwillingness in the gentile king's bed Addition C makes.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-01",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1371",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rashi asks precisely what Mordecai said in his bitter cry (MT 4:1) -- the exact narrative gap Addition C's prayer fills.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-01",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1374",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The euphemistic content given to Mordecai's cry -- 'the upper King has been overcome' -- matches Addition C's insistence God alone is king, unopposed.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-09",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1396",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Identifying Esther's cry with Psalm 22 ('My God, my God, why have you forsaken me') is the specific prayer of the endangered woman Addition C supplies at this exact point.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-21",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1398",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Deliver my soul from the sword,' from the same psalm, is Addition C's closing petition to be delivered from the hand of the wicked.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-03",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1279",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'She was sallow' -- denying Esther natural beauty -- sets up the specific divinely supplied radiance Addition D describes at this same moment.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-03",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1280",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'A thread of grace was drawn over her ... she appeared beautiful to the nations and to Ahasuerus' is Addition D's account of her God-given radiance before the king.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-06",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1451",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'An angel came' and turned the king's opening anger into 'what is your request' is the specific wrath-to-gentleness transformation Addition D attributes to God.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-16",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1430",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther's gesture pointing at Ahasuerus himself as a danger is the specific assumption behind Addition C's plea for a word to sway 'the lion.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-01",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1411",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'The sleep of the King of the world' reads the king's sleeplessness as God's own action -- Addition F's claim that 'these things have come from God.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-07",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1169",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'The thing was revealed to all the nations since the letters went through the whole world' is the specific global-reach detail matching Addition F's 'signs and wonders such as have not happened among the nations.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-15",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1333",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'The other lands too became fit to sing over the miracle' extends festival observance beyond Judea, matching Addition E's order that the Persians keep the day.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-02",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1335",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's inclusion among the forty-eight prophets is the specific prophetic standing Addition F claims for his dream, not one word of which failed.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-04",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1243",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai and Haman set side by side as the banquet's two stewards of drink is the same matched-pair framing Addition F gives the two dragons, 'I and Haman.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-08",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1722",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'ויצר לגוי הקטן מאד' matches the plus's righteous nation troubled and fearing destruction; an image with no MT counterpart.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-02",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1722",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'ידע... שנתקיים החלום' — the dream recognized as fulfilled — matches Addition F's 'not one word of it failed to come to pass'; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-13",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1686",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Mordecai overhears the two eunuchs speaking Tarsian (which he understands from the Chamber of Hewn Stone) and learns of their poison plot — a specific mechanism of discovery matching 'overheard their reasonings and searched out their designs'; not MT (MT gives no mechanism).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-16",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1686",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The king removes Bigthan and Teresh and installs Mordecai in their place as court guard — a specific replacement-appointment matching the plus; MT only records that Mordecai's report was written down, not that he was appointed to their post.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-17",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1755",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Harbonah charges that Haman 'היה עם בגתן ותרש באותה עצה' and hated Mordecai from the moment he exposed them — the plus's distinctive claim that Haman's enmity toward Mordecai stemmed specifically from the two eunuchs; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1756",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman and his ten sons are hanged together on one measured fifty-cubit beam, a single combined execution — matching the plus's 'crucified... together with his whole household' more specifically than MT's separated battle-then-hanging sequence in chapter 9.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1699",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman carries his idol on his garments so that bowing equals idolatry — the specific reason the witness gives for Mordecai's refusal, matching the plus's claim it was not insolence or pride; not MT material (MT gives no reason).",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1699",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'אם ישתחוה לי נמצא עובד ע\"א' is precisely the plus's reasoning that he would not set a man's glory above God's; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1700",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai says the Shekhinah rests on his shoulders and so he cannot flatter Haman — refusal framed, as in the plus, as a choice between God's glory and a man's; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1702",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'איסגנטריני של הקב\"ה אני וכי איסגנטרין משתחוה להדיוט' — God's herald does not bow to a commoner — the same theological ground the plus gives for refusing prostration; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1710",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman's indictment targets Jewish worship itself — synagogues, reciting Shema, praying 'מכניע זדים' — matching the plus's enemies who aim to stop the mouths of those who praise God; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1710",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Michael's defense that Israel is accused not of idolatry or bloodshed but of keeping God's law matches the plus's royal finding that the Jews are no evildoers but govern themselves by the most just laws, sons of the living God; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-08",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1705",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'אתה הוא גורלן של בני' turns the pur into a lot belonging specifically to God's children as against the nations — Addition F's distinctive two-lots reading; not MT's pur (which is only about timing).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1669",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther is fed Jewish food/seeds rather than the king's fare — a specific dietary abstention matching the plus's claim she never honored the king's banquet; MT says nothing of her diet.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1672",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'לא טעמה כלום אלא משלה ולא משלחנו של מלך' closely matches the plus's 'has not eaten at the table... nor honored the king's banquet'; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-20",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1730",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'כשם שאבדתי מבית אבא כך אני אובדת ממך' reads her queenship as pure loss, matching the plus's 'no joy from the day of my change until now'; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-09",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1733",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "At the threshold Esther prays 'אלי אלי למה עזבתני' facing mortal danger with no helper, at the identical narrative beat where the plus has her cry to God alone, having no helper but him; not MT (MT has no such prayer scene).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-16",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1733",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The witness has Esther call the king 'the lion' ('הושיעני מפי אריה'), the same distinctive epithet the plus uses ('before the lion') for Ahasuerus; not MT (MT never calls the king a lion).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-05",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1733",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The king turns his face away in fury and Esther, lacking strength, collapses — matching the plus's king inflamed with anger and the queen fainting; this whole scene is absent from MT 5:2.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-06",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1733",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Angels force the king's face toward her and his eyes are opened so he extends the sceptre — the same divine reversal the plus ascribes to God changing the king's spirit to gentleness; absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1742",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "All night the king sees Haman over him with drawn sword, stripping his purple and crown, seeking to kill him — a specific vision matching the plus's charge that Haman sought to deprive the king of power and life; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-11",
  "witness_id": "rashi-esther-1020",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rashi's 'master of the dream' telling Mordecai the heavenly court consented to the decree is the same device as Addition A's dream: private, prophetic disclosure of God's resolve, absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-09",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0391",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Zeresh's speech ends with Israel crying out and being answered that same night -- the specific cry-and-immediate-rescue beat that structures the dream's cry to God.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-10",
  "witness_id": "rashi-esther-1044",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Zeresh's maxim that this nation falls to dust and rises to the stars is the same sudden high/low inversion as 'the lowly were exalted and devoured the honored,' independently imaged.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0342",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Targum's 'the cooked food and wine of foreign nations she did not taste' is a specific dietary detail matching Esther's claim not to have eaten at Haman's table or drunk libation wine; not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "rashi-esther-1004",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rashi's 'Haman made himself a god, therefore Mordecai would not bow' supplies the specific theological reason for the refusal that Addition C's disclaimer of insolence and pride presupposes; not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "rashi-esther-1005",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rashi's 'he is a Jew, warned against idolatry' matches the plus's distinction between honoring a man and elevating a man's glory above God's -- a specific idolatry-based refusal not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-20",
  "witness_id": "rashi-esther-1028",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rashi's 'until now under compulsion, now willingly' (4:16) matches the plus's premise that her queenship, from the day of her change, has brought no joy -- both read the marriage as an endured violation.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0378",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther's prayer calls Ahasuerus 'this uncircumcised one (arla)' -- the same specific term applied to the king that the plus uses for the bed she abhors.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-21",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0378",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The same prayer's close, 'spare your people... do not deliver the sons of Jacob into the hand of Haman,' matches the plus's final plea to deliver the people from the hand of the wicked -- same petition tied to the same crisis and named antagonist.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-01",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0378",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The targum gives the identical sequence at the identical verse: third day, Esther dons royal garments, stands and prays -- matching Addition D's day-count and garment exchange.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-02",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0378",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The holy spirit resting on her and her prayer to the 'Master of the world' just before entering matches the plus's calling on 'the God who watches over and saves all' at the same threshold moment.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-05",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0379",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The king seeing her 'standing faint, her two eyes streaming tears' is the specific fainting scene the plus narrates as her collapse and change of color -- a scene absent from MT altogether.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "rashi-esther-1053",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rashi's identification of Mordecai as the one 'who saved the king from the deadly poison' supplies the specific benefactor role the plus assigns him ('our savior and constant benefactor'); the poison detail is not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0446",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The targum's gibbet diagram crucifies Haman together with his ten sons on one beam, matching the plus's claim that he was destroyed 'together with his whole household,' against MT's separate hanging of the sons after battle.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-13",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0431",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The targum's specific list of restored practices (Torah study, sabbaths, festivals, circumcision, tefillin) gives concrete content to the plus's grant that Jews may 'live by their own laws,' beyond MT's bare self-defense permission.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0431",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The same specific list of religious observances supports the plus's claim that the Jews govern themselves by 'the most just laws.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-03",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0467",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "At the very verse Addition F glosses, the targum applies bright-star and dawn imagery to Mordecai, matching the plus's 'light and sun rose' interpretation of the dream.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-07",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1487",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "PDRE cites 'the prayer of Esther and her maidens' as the known cause of Amalek's slaughter -- a fixed tradition of Esther's penitential prayer, material wholly absent from MT and specific to Addition C.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-13",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1500",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'ושמע שני סריסי המלך מדברים בלשון כשדים' -- Mordecai (who knows seventy tongues) overhears the eunuchs' private plot in a foreign tongue, matching the plus's distinctive 'overheard their reasonings and searched out their designs' against MT's passive 'the matter became known.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1500",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "PDRE gives the specific reason Mordecai sat at the gate -- to guard against Esther's defilement by impure food -- corresponding to the plus's distinctive claim that Esther never ate at Haman's table nor drank the libation wine, a dietary detail MT does not supply.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-15",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1501",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "PDRE doubles the record exactly as the plus does: the incident is written in the royal archive AND Mordecai's report is separately 'written on a book,' matching Addition A's distinctive double authorship (king writes, Mordecai writes) against MT's single notice.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-05",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1503",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'זכור לאברהם ליצחק וליעקב אשר נשבעת להם' -- Mordecai's prayer pleads the patriarchal oath specifically to spare the people, the same 'God of Abraham, spare your people' invocation and plea-structure as Addition C, material absent from MT's Esther narrative.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-12",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2109",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "The Bigthan-and-Teresh section presupposes Mordecai posted where he can watch the two eunuchs whispering, rendering Addition A's placement of Mordecai at court with the two guarding eunuchs (Gabatha/Tharra under their MT names).",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-13",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2109",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'וירא אותם מתלחשים והכיר עצתם וחשב שהם חושבים לשלוח יד במלך' renders Addition A's distinctive 'overheard their reasonings and searched out their designs' against MT's passive formulation.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-14",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2109",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'והמלך חקר את הדבר... וידע אותו מהודאת פיהם' renders Addition A's distinctive confession (ὁμολογήσαντες) before hanging, an element MT lacks.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-02",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2112",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'לא להתנהג עמהם עם כחי ועוצם ידי אך שיעמדו בשלום תחתי' renders Addition B's peaceable-rule preamble, rhetoric wholly absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-05",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2112",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'לא נראה עם מורד כזה מתנהג בדעות שונות מכל העמים אשר מבטלים שלום' renders Addition B's distinctive extended judgment that this nation alone stands opposed to all mankind, beyond MT 3:8.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-06",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2112",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'המן אשר הוא פטרון ומשנה למלך ושמנו אותו לאב' renders Addition B's distinctive epithet for Haman as the king's 'second father,' not in MT (though the accompanying wives-and-children clause is MT 3:13).",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-05",
  "witness_id": "tosafot-megillah-2113",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'להפך בחבל כזב' renders Addition E's distinctive charge that malice deceives the sincere good faith of rulers, not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1961",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "MT gives Mordecai no reason for refusing to bow; both here and in Addition C he is given the same non-MT apologia, refusing to honor a man over God ('shall I bow to a commoner?').",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1961",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The refusal is explicitly framed in both as not personal pride but a refusal to set a man's glory beside God's, matching Addition C's 'I did this so that I might not set the glory of a man above the glory of God.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1960",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The bow is reframed as a no-win loyalty test between God and the nations, the same non-MT God-vs-man premise underlying Mordecai's apologia in Addition C, though without the personal-pride denial.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-01",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1972",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "MT Esth 3:12 says letters were written but supplies no text; both this witness and Addition B independently invent a full quoted royal letter to fill that exact gap -- the shared device is the invented speech itself.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-01",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1974",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The Aramaic recension is a second, independent invented full text of the same unquoted MT letter, closing with its own 'copy of the letter' colophon like Addition B's.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-18",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1972",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "A specific, non-stock niddah image links the two: Addition C has Esther loathe the royal diadem 'as a menstrual cloth,' and this letter complains that even the king looks to Jewish eyes 'like a menstruant woman' -- the same image, inverted between petitioner and grievance.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-07",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0196",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The night-litany's pile of synonyms for calamity -- 'distress upon distress, breach upon breach,' universal mourning and wailing -- specifically answers the dream's own pile of synonyms, 'a day of darkness and gloom, affliction and distress, oppression and great confusion,' beyond anything in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0138",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The edict describes Haman as 'a man who came to us, not from our place nor our province,' the same foreigner-admitted-as-guest framing as Addition E's Macedonian stranger to Persian blood.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-16",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0139",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The edict closes with a sanction against non-compliant households (hanging over their own doorway); this is the same structural closing-penalty clause as Addition E's spear-and-fire threat against disobedient cities, absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-05",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0114",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's escalation -- they spit on the ground at the sight of us, treat us as unclean, give and take no daughters in marriage -- is a concrete misanthropy topos beyond MT, matching Addition B's nation 'alone among all... in opposition to every man.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0114",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's charge that Jews 'will not give us their daughters and will not take ours' is the same specific refusal of intermarriage Esther claims as a virtue in Addition C ('I abhor the bed of the uncircumcised'), voiced by the accuser rather than the accused.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-05",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0121",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "On the Fast of Gedaliah they curse the king and pray for his death and the breaking of his rule -- the concrete sedition behind Addition B's charge that the nation works evils against the kingdom's stability.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-05",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0117",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The Passover liturgy Haman reports -- 'as leaven is swept out before unleavened bread, so may this wicked kingdom be swept out' -- is a specific seditious liturgy illustrating Addition B's charge of ill-disposal to the king's affairs.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0104",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's rationale -- who is a man, born of woman, his days few, his end returned to dust, that I should bow to him -- is the specific reasoning behind Addition C's 'not to set the glory of a man above the glory of God.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-02",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0105",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's creation hymn -- suspending the earth, stretching the firmament, making the great sea, commanding sun moon and stars -- is the non-MT creation catalogue matching Addition C's 'you made heaven and earth and every wondrous thing under heaven.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0105",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'I bow to none but the living and enduring God... to him alone it is fitting to bow' is the specific counterpart to Addition C's 'I will bow down to no one except you, my Lord.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0198",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman's robe bears two idol images front and back, so bowing would be idol-worship -- the specific non-MT reason Mordecai's refusal is theological, not pride, matching Addition C's disclaimer of insolence or ambition.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0086",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther secretly passes her palace rations to gentile maids 'because Esther did not taste the food of the king's house' -- the concrete equivalent of Addition C's claim that she has not eaten at Haman's table or honored the king's banquet.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0157",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther's own 30-day prayer that the king not summon her, grounded in Mordecai's rule that a willing Israelite bride of a gentile forfeits her portion, is the specific ground for Addition C's abhorrence of 'the bed of the uncircumcised.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-09",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0141",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's speech -- no king to lean on, no prophet to seek mercy, no place to flee -- is the specific ground of total helplessness matching Addition C's 'help me, alone as I am, having no helper but you.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0172",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The twelve thousand priests' cry -- if the beloved people ceases, who will stand and read the Torah and speak your name -- is the specific silenced-worship argument matching Addition C's charge that the enemy aims to stop the mouths of those who praise God.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-06",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0175",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'If we are destroyed, who will give thanks before you?' is the specific petitionary logic of Addition C's 'do not blot out the mouths of those who praise you.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0175",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'We are exiled and driven from our land, and because of our sin you handed us over' matches Addition C's confession almost point for point: we have sinned before you and you delivered us to our enemies; you are righteous.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-21",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0176",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The closing petition -- hear our voice, bring us from distress to relief, break Haman, let there be no rising from his fall -- is the specific counterpart to Addition C's final plea to hear the despairing and deliver from the wicked.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-01",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0174",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'On the third day, when Esther had fasted three fasts, she rose from the dust and ashes... and put on royal apparel' after finishing her prayer reproduces Addition D's specific sequence -- end of prayer, exchange of mourning for glory -- which MT never narrates (the third-day timing itself is MT-derivable, but this narrative frame is not). One of the parallels the scholarly literature already records (control P05).",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-05",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0174",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The prayer's address, 'You are the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the God of Benjamin my father,' shares Addition C's specific invocation 'Lord God, King, God of Abraham, spare your people.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-20",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0174",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Not because I am beautiful before you do I go in... but for the sake of your people Israel' is the specific self-effacing disclaimer matching Addition C's claim that her queenship has brought her no joy, only service.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-03",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0177",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'She said in her heart: perhaps I shall go in before the king and he will not receive me' is the specific inward dread matching Addition D's outwardly composed queen whose heart was constricted with fear.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-14",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0290",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Haman devised an evil scheme against Israel, and his scheme came up on his own head, and they crucified him' is the specific poetic-justice formula matching Addition C's petition to turn their plot back upon them and make an example of the one who began it.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-01",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0264",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Targum Sheni quotes the second edict addressed to 'the dwellers of sea and dry land, the archons of the districts and the chiefs of the armies' -- the same invented decree-address device as Addition E's opening to the satraps and loyal officials.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-02",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0264",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "Targum Sheni 8:13 reproduces Addition E clause by clause in the Greek's order (review §3); verbatim under the written standard.",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-07",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0264",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The same edict's resolve to set peace on all who dwell under the kingdom and trade freely between tongues matches Addition E's stated aim to provide the kingdom untroubled and at peace for all people.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-04",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0264",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "Targum Sheni 8:13 reproduces Addition E clause by clause in the Greek's order (review §3); verbatim under the written standard.",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-05",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0264",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "Targum Sheni 8:13 reproduces Addition E clause by clause in the Greek's order (review §3); verbatim under the written standard.",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0264",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "Targum Sheni 8:13 reproduces Addition E clause by clause in the Greek's order (review §3); verbatim under the written standard.",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-02",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0264",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'He did not know how to bear his honor, nor even how to receive the kingship' matches Addition E's reflection that those honored too much by their benefactors grow arrogant.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0264",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "Targum Sheni 8:13 reproduces Addition E clause by clause in the Greek's order (review §3); verbatim under the written standard.",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-10",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0264",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The edict's charge that Haman sought to kill the king and seize the kingship for himself is the same non-MT usurpation motive as Addition E's plan to transfer the dominion to the Macedonians.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0264",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "Targum Sheni 8:13 reproduces Addition E clause by clause in the Greek's order (review §3); verbatim under the written standard.",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0264",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "Targum Sheni 8:13 reproduces Addition E clause by clause in the Greek's order (review §3); verbatim under the written standard.",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0202",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The angel Michael tells the sleepless king outright, 'Haman seeks to kill you and to reign in your place' -- the specific regicide motive Addition E assigns to Haman, absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0201",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The king's own suspicion, 'Esther and Haman are conspiring to kill me,' is the same specific regicide charge Addition E levels against Haman, voiced here as royal fear.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0210",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Haman wants to kill me and to reign in my place, as I saw in the vision' is the same specific plot-on-the-king's-life motive as Addition E's charge, unattested in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0249",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Harbonah's denunciation -- 'you too, O king, Haman sought to kill and to take the kingdom from you' -- is the same regicide charge Addition E makes, absent from MT's version of Harbonah's speech.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0250",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai takes Haman from the king's gate to crucify him, a specific location matching Addition E's notice of the crucifixion at the gates of Susa.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0279",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman and all ten sons are crucified together, tier by tier, on one fifty-cubit gallows -- the specific whole-household execution matching Addition E's 'crucified together with his whole household.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0635",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther secretly maintaining Jewish dietary practice at the Persian court is the specific extra-MT detail shared with the plus's claim she avoided forbidden food.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0637",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "R. Yohanan's tradition that Esther ate only seeds/pulse (citing Daniel) is the same court-food-avoidance motif the plus asserts in her own voice.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0651",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther immersing after leaving Ahasuerus's lap to sit in Mordecai's treats union with the gentile king as defiling, matching 'I abhor the bed of the uncircumcised and of any foreigner.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0533",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman explicitly 'made himself an object of worship' (idol) -- the specific extra-MT reason the plus's Mordecai gives for not bowing, so as not to exalt a man's glory above God's.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-13",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0533",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The same self-deified-Haman tradition explains the plus's fear that 'a mortal king' would be 'marvelled at forever' in place of God.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0590",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'They bowed to the image' as the generation's sin directly matches the plus's confession 'we glorified their gods.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-18",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0711",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Both independently attach menstrual/niddah imagery to Esther's crisis -- an unusual, specific, extra-MT motif shared between the Talmud's 'she menstruated' and the plus's 'as a menstrual cloth.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0715",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "R. Abba's 'until now under compulsion, now willingly' -- Esther's coerced relations with the king -- matches the plus's revulsion at 'the bed of the uncircumcised and of any foreigner.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-09",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0730",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther's cry 'my God, my God, why have you forsaken me' as the Shekhinah departs at the threshold matches the plus's 'help me, alone as I am, having no helper but you' at the same narrative moment.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-16",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0731",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther's prayer names the king 'the lion' (Ps 22), exactly as the plus's prayer names the king 'the lion' and asks for a word before him -- a specific, non-MT title for Ahasuerus shared by both.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-01",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0732",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The angel who lifts her neck and the angel who stretches the sceptre, combined, match the plus's unique detail of the king raising the golden rod to touch her neck.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-05",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0732",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The angel supporting her sinking neck matches the plus's queen who 'collapsed... and sank down' in a faint. One of the parallels the scholarly literature already records (control P06).",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-06",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0732",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The three-angel intervention causing a favorable audience matches the plus's divine intervention ('God changed the king's spirit to gentleness') at the same scene. One of the parallels the scholarly literature already records (control P06).",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-01",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0733",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The sceptre's miraculous extension so it could reach Esther is the specific problem the plus solves by having the king raise the rod to touch her neck.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0744",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The sleepless king's suspicion that Esther and Haman conspire to kill him matches the plus's specific charge that Haman sought 'to deprive us of our power and even our life.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-02",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0754",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman as a village barber for 22 years, suddenly elevated, matches the plus's reflection that men honored too much by their benefactors grow arrogant.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-07",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0552",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Both apply 'signs and wonders' language specifically to the Esther deliverance -- a striking shared claim precisely because MT Esther famously lacks any overt miracle.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-07",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0546",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'All the ends of the earth saw our God's salvation... in the days of Mordecai and Esther' matches the plus's claim that God's wonders were 'such as have not happened among the nations' -- universal visibility of the deliverance.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-13",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1577",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Mordecai overhears the two eunuchs conspiring in a foreign tongue ('Tarsian'), knowing seventy languages, and reports it -- an explanation of how Mordecai learned of the plot that MT never gives, matching the plus's 'he overheard their reasonings and searched out their designs.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-02",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1580",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Three angels aid Esther at the audience (one raises her neck, one draws a thread of grace over her, one stretches the scepter) -- supernatural assistance during the audience scene that MT does not narrate, matching Addition D's divine intervention as she approaches the king.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-05",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1580",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'One raised her neck' presupposes Esther's collapse before the enthroned king, matching the plus's 'the queen collapsed... and sank down' -- a fainting MT never mentions.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-01",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1580",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The scepter is miraculously stretched from two cubits to twelve so it can reach Esther, matching the plus's 'raising the golden rod, he touched it to her neck' -- a vivid non-MT elaboration of Esther 5:2's bare scepter-touch.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-09",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1580",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther, abandoned by the Shekhinah as she passes the idols, cries 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me' at the moment of approaching the king -- the same narrative position and theme of solitary abandonment as the plus's 'help me, alone as I am, having no helper but you.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "otzar-drash-purim-1591",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'A man came to us, not from our place and not from our nation... of the seed of Amalek, and Haman was his name' -- the same 'arrived as an outsider, then elevated' framing as Addition E's Macedonian stranger, though the specific ethnonym differs.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-04",
  "witness_id": "otzar-drash-purim-1591",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'There is among us one nation, despised and haughty of spirit, and the cursing of the king is in their mouth' escalates beyond MT 3:8's bare charge to active hostility/cursing, matching Addition B's amplified rhetoric of a hostile people defying royal law.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-megillah-1599",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Because Haman's garments bore an idol's image, Mordecai will not give a man divine honor -- matching the plus's 'I did this so that I might not set the glory of a man above the glory of God.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-01",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-megillah-1600",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Same scepter-extension detail (two cubits stretched to twelve) as the parallel recension, matching the plus's golden rod touching Esther's neck.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-05",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-megillah-1600",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'One raised her neck' again presupposes the collapse before the king that the plus narrates.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1802",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's refusal is explained as refusal of idolatry -- Haman had an idol embroidered on his garment over his heart -- grounding the refusal as religious obligation, not personal insolence, matching Addition C's exact apologia.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-03",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1805",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's letter opens with his own self-titulature -- 'the great one of the king and second to him, head of the prefects' -- directly matching Addition B's presentation of Haman as holder of the second place of honor, a specific and distinctive detail MT never supplies.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1806",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "God specifically 'breaks the seals and tears up Haman's written letters, annulling the decree' -- the same concrete act of voiding Haman's letters that Addition E's royal rescript performs, a specific narrative action MT does not supply (MT merely issues a counter-decree, without describing the physical undoing of Haman's letters).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-06",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1807",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Michael directly manipulates Ahasuerus through the night (beating him, driving off sleep) to save the Jews -- the same 'heavenly power directly changing the king's inner state' mechanism as Addition D's 'God changed the king's spirit to gentleness.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1813",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's non-prostration is explicitly grounded in Torah/prophecy (Deut 27:15; Isa 2:22 'cease from man in whose nostrils is breath') as a matter of principle, matching Addition C's disclaimer that the refusal was not personal insolence or pride.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1822",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The crisis is diagnosed as punishment for the specific, named sin of eating at the gentile king's table -- matching Addition C's confession 'we have sinned before you... because we glorified their gods' as a specific sin-and-deserved-punishment frame MT does not supply.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-18",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1825",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther's 'va-titchalchal' is explained as menstruation (piresah niddah) -- the same concrete image of menstrual impurity that Addition C's Esther invokes for her loathing of the royal diadem ('I abhor it as a menstrual cloth').",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-08",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1827",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Israel is figured as a dove trapped at the dovecote between the snake within and hawk without, unable to flee because Haman has written to the four winds -- a concrete trapped-and-fearing-for-its-life image matching the plus's 'righteous nation troubled, fearing its own evils, prepared to perish.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1832",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "When Israel saw the Temple vessels in use at the feast, they refused to recline and made a separate table -- the same specific abstention-from-the-royal-feast motif as Esther's claim in Addition C.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1838",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The women likewise refuse to eat at Vashti's banquet once they see the Temple vessels in use -- the same specific refusal-of-the-gentile-feast motif as Addition C's 'nor have I honored the king's banquet.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-04",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1843",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The seven advisers who counseled Vashti's death are themselves destroyed for that counsel -- the specific mechanism of trusted counselors making the king 'partners in innocent blood' that opens Addition E.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-05",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1845",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Mordecai sought mercy for them, and through him miracles were done' supplies Mordecai with the specific intercessory-prayer role that Addition C gives him at 4:17.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1846",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Mordecai is called 'Yehudi' specifically because, unlike everyone else, he alone did not eat at Ahasuerus's banquet -- the same specific abstention-from-the-royal-table motif Addition C makes Esther's boast.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1850",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther hides herself for four years specifically so as not to be taken to the king's bed while gentile girls offer themselves -- the same specific unwillingness to enter the foreign king's bed that Addition C voices ('I abhor the bed of the uncircumcised').",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-18",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1853",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Hegai specifically asks why Esther alone does not adorn herself like all the other women -- her habitual refusal of the royal ornament/adornment, matching Addition C's explicit loathing of 'the sign of my pride... upon my head.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1854",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther tastes nothing from the king's table, only her own food, explicitly compared to Hananiah/Mishael/Azariah refusing Nebuchadnezzar's rations -- matching Addition C's 'your servant has not eaten at the table of Haman... nor drunk the wine of libations.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-13",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1860",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Mordecai, knowing seventy languages, actively overhears the conspirators' private plan and investigates it before reporting -- the same distinctive detail of active overhearing/investigation ('he overheard their reasonings and searched out their designs') that MT's bare 'the matter became known to Mordecai' lacks.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1863",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai grounds his refusal in a family tradition -- 'because I am a Jew... Benjamin my father did not bow' -- the same non-personal, ancestral-obligation grounding Addition C's Mordecai gives for the refusal.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1870",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Ahasuerus refuses to sell the Jews because they are a deposit (pikadon) entrusted to him and because their God destroyed Pharaoh, Sisera, Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar -- the Persian king's own confession that the Jews' God protects them, matching Addition E's finding that they are 'sons of the living God.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1874",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai 'knew' annihilation was decreed for the specific sin of bowing to Nebuchadnezzar's image -- matching Addition C's confession that they were handed to their enemies 'because we glorified their gods.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1875",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The midrash describes Haman's death with the specific vocabulary of crucifixion (nitzlav), 'tomorrow Haman is crucified,' matching the Greek's distinctive esaurōsthai for Haman's end rather than simple hanging (talah), which MT uses throughout.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-01",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1876",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The witness supplies Mordecai with an actual spoken prayer, with ashes on his head, addressed to the patriarchs and God -- filling exactly the gap MT leaves at 4:1 (a bare 'loud and bitter cry') the same way Addition C supplies Mordecai's prayer content there.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-06",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1883",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's rebuke grounds Esther's obligation explicitly in the Exodus redemption and the defeat of Amalek -- matching Addition C's appeal to 'your portion, which you redeemed for yourself out of the land of Egypt.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1885",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Ha-nimtzaim' is read as those who ate at Ahasuerus's banquet, for whom the fast is imposed as expiation -- the same specific concern with participation in the royal table that Addition C's Esther disclaims.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-06",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1886",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The three-day fast is placed on Passover itself, explicitly cancelling the festival -- a deliberate inversion of feasting into mourning tied to the very fast Addition C's petition asks God to reverse ('turn our mourning into feasting').",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-05",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1887",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The king turns his face away and cries out, blinded, while Esther has no strength to reach the scepter -- the same specific scene of the king's terrifying reaction and the queen's physical incapacity that Addition D stages as his burning gaze and her collapsing faint.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-06",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1887",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Ministering angels hold the king's face and light his blinded eyes, and Michael draws Esther's hand to the scepter, after which the king tells her he sees she risked death -- the same divine-intervention-plus-reassurance sequence as Addition D's 'God changed the king's spirit to gentleness... take courage, you shall not die.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-01",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1887",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The scepter's extension is dramatized into a scene requiring angelic help to touch it -- the same enlarged, dramatized golden-scepter moment Addition D supplies ('raising the golden rod, he touched it to her neck').",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1890",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman specifically chooses crucifixion (tzelivah), reasoning God rescues from fire, sword, and sea but not from the cross -- matching the Greek's distinctive vocabulary of crucifixion (estaurōsthai) for Haman's own end, which MT nowhere uses (MT has only talah, hanging).",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1898",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The king's own dream of Haman standing over him with a drawn sword, seeking to kill him, is treated as truth -- the specific charge that Haman sought to take the king's own power/life, matching Addition E's 'he undertook to deprive us of our power and even our life.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-06",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1899",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai answers Haman by quoting Ps 30:12 nearly verbatim -- 'you turned my mourning into dancing, you loosed my sackcloth' -- the same 'turn mourning into feasting' language as Addition C's petition.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-17",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1905",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Harbonah reveals that Haman was party to the Bigthan-and-Teresh eunuch plot and had already prepared the gallows the moment Mordecai exposed it -- the exact otherwise-unattested link Addition A supplies, that Haman sought Mordecai's harm specifically 'on account of the king's two eunuchs.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1905",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman is made an actual co-conspirator against the king's own life alongside the two eunuchs -- matching Addition E's rescript, which convicts Haman of plotting against the king's power and life, not only against the Jews.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1912",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "All the Jews ate gentile dishes at Ahasuerus's feast and Mordecai alone abstained -- the same specific abstention-from-the-royal-banquet motif as Addition C's 'nor have I honored the king's banquet, nor drunk the wine of libations.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1921",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai raises his hand heavenward, refusing to forsake the living and eternal Lord to bow to the idol on Haman's breast -- matching Addition C's 'I did this so that I might not set the glory of a man above the glory of God.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-13",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1921",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman is dismissed as 'flesh and blood, today here and tomorrow in the grave' set against the eternal God -- matching Addition C's protest against having 'a mortal king marveled at forever.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-07",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ויהי היום ההוא חשך לכל העולם' directly renders 'ἡμέρα σκότους καὶ γνόφου' — day, darkness, and 'whole world/earth' all correspond — within the same dream retelling, not MT's.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-08",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'ויצר לגוי הקטן מאד' (the small nation was greatly distressed) matches 'ἐταράχθη δίκαιον πᾶν ἔθνος...ἡτοιμάσθησαν ἀπολέσθαι' (the righteous nation troubled, prepared to perish), though ER's clause is shorter and omits the 'prepared to perish' element.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-10",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'זרחה השמש...ויתרומם הגוי הקטן והגבוהים השפלו' directly renders 'ὁ ἥλιος ἀνέτειλεν...οἱ ταπεινοὶ ὑψώθησαν' — sun rising and the low/high reversal — a specific matched image sequence, not MT's.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-05",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2089",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'לאבד זכרו מעל הארץ' (to destroy its name/memory from the earth) directly matches Addition F's gloss that the nations gathered 'to destroy the name of the Jews' — a specific, non-MT phrase-level correspondence.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-06",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2091",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'וידע המרגיז הזה כי לא שכחת ההבטחה שהבטחתנו' (let this troubler know you have not forgotten the promise) matches Addition C's 'do not overlook your portion... your inheritance' — a shared specific plea that God remember his ancient promise, non-MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-07",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2091",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'ותפשט בגדי מלכותה ואת תפארתה, ותלבש שק...ותמלא אותו עפר ואפר' matches Addition C across multiple clauses — stripping royal garments, donning sackcloth/mourning, filling the head with ashes — none of it MT's.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-15",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2091",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'ותנה אותי לרחמים לפני האיש הזה כי יראתיו' (grant me favor before this man, for I fear him) matches Addition C's plea for courage before the feared king in this hour of affliction — a shared, non-MT prayer content (the generic 'favor' vocabulary itself is MT's, but the prayer-for-courage framing is not).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2061",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'יש אדון המתגאה על כל גאים היאך אני מניחו ואשתחוה לעבודת כוכבים' explains Mordecai's refusal as anti-idolatry rather than personal pride — the same specific rationale Addition C supplies in Mordecai's own voice ('not from insolence, pride, or love of glory'), a motive MT never states.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2061",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "ER frames Ahasuerus's bow-order as engineered idolatry so that Mordecai's refusal is religiously, not personally, motivated — matching Addition C's insistence that the refusal was not pride but refusal to exalt a man over God, a rationale absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2071",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The embroidered idol on Haman's garment, making prostration to him literal idol-worship, supplies the same religious grounding for Mordecai's refusal that Addition C gives in his own words — a specific, non-MT mechanism explaining why bowing was forbidden.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-06",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2036",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "God directing 'the angel appointed over the flame/wrath' regarding the king's anger shares the specific premise that God personally manages Ahasuerus's emotional states — the same non-MT theological conceit as Addition D's 'God changed the king's spirit to gentleness,' even though ER's episode concerns a different moment (Vashti/Haman's fall) in that same wrath-thread.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-09",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0545",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'You brought us to saturation... in the days of Haman' applies water/flood-abundance imagery specifically to the Purim deliverance, matching the plus's cry-answered-by-a-great-river dream image.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-10",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0760",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'When they descend they descend to the dust, when they rise they rise to the stars,' at the turn of Haman's fortune, matches the plus's 'the lowly were exalted and devoured the honored.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-10",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0755",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai literally treading on Haman as he mounts matches the plus's lowly-exalted-over-the-honored image.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-03",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0611",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Identifying Memucan (Esth 1) as Haman -- an extra-MT identification -- supports the plus's characterization of Haman as the trusted counselor whose advice the king takes.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-03",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0754",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman's own words, 'a man esteemed by the king above all his nobles,' directly match the plus's 'awarded the second place of honor in the kingdom.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-01",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0751",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai wrapping himself and standing to pray is a genuine extra-MT prayer scene for Mordecai, matching the very innovation the plus supplies (MT never shows Mordecai praying).",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0622",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai called 'Yehudi' because he repudiated idolatry is the same substantive claim as the plus's account of his refusal to bow so as not to exalt a man's glory above God's.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-05",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0555",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "God's covenant promise not to destroy Israel, applied specifically 'in the days of Haman... I raised up Mordecai and Esther,' matches Mordecai's plea to spare 'your inheritance from the beginning.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-05",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0621",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's descent from Agag, spared by Saul, frames the enmity as ancient and hereditary, matching the plus's 'they have desired to destroy your inheritance from the beginning.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-06",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0671",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The a fortiori linking Exodus redemption to obligatory praise/song matches the plus's petition to 'hymn your name... and not blot out the mouths of those who praise you.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-10",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0645",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther's merit traced through inherited family modesty (Rachel, then Saul) matches the plus's appeal to what she 'heard from my birth, in the tribe of my family.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0610",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The angels' complaint over missing lambs, doves, altar, priestly garments matches the plus's charge that the enemies aim 'to quench the glory of your house and your altar.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0734",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Not the one thing that would divide the kingdom -- the building of the Temple' matches the plus's charge that the enemies aim to quench the glory of God's house.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-14",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0748",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'He prepared it for himself' (Haman's gallows turned on him) is the precise reversal-of-plot-upon-plotter the plus's prayer requests: 'turn their own plan back upon them.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-15",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0737",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Perhaps the Omnipresent will take notice and work a miracle for us' closely matches the plus's 'make yourself known in this time of our affliction, and give me courage.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-18",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0651",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther showing her menstrual blood to the sages is the same unusual niddah imagery attached to Esther independently of MT, matching the plus's 'menstrual cloth.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0590",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Because they derived benefit from that wicked man's banquet' names precisely the sin the plus's Esther distances herself from: 'nor have I honored the king's banquet.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-02",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0732",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Three attendant angels supporting Esther as she enters the king's presence is the same structural beat as the plus's two maids, one leaned on and one bearing her train.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-04",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0730",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther 'passing through every door' matches the witness's specific elaboration of her physical passage through the palace, including the hall of images, en route to the king.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-02",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0739",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Pride goes before destruction,' applied to Haman at the height of his honor, matches the plus's reflection that men honored too much grow arrogant.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-05",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0660",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'No one knew slander like Haman' directly matches the plus's 'deceiving, by the false reasoning of malice, the sincere good faith of those who hold power.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0754",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman as a low-born barber suddenly raised to second place matches the plus's 'a stranger to the blood of the Persians... having come to us as a guest.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0747",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Nothing was done for him' names the unrewarded benefactor Haman sought to destroy, matching the plus's 'our savior and constant benefactor Mordecai.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0728",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Israel occupied themselves with Torah, the nations did not' matches the plus's finding that the Jews 'govern themselves by the most just laws.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0756",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman's daughter's death alongside his humiliation supports the plus's report that Haman's household was destroyed together with him.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-14",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0656",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'God created the remedy for the wound' before it fell -- divine foresight behind the reversal -- matches the plus's 'God, who rules over all things, has made for them a day of joy instead of destruction.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-01",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0743",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rereading 'the king's sleep was disturbed' as God's own agency is a striking theological reversal matching Mordecai's climactic declaration, 'these things have come from God.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-03",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0545",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Same water-abundance imagery ('brought us to saturation... in the days of Haman') applied specifically to the Esther deliverance, matching the plus's spring-become-river dream image now identified as Esther.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-03",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0536",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'The myrtle shall come up -- this is righteous Esther' performs the same allegorical decoding (natural image = Esther) that the plus's dream interpretation performs with the river.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-04",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0621",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Mordecai and Haman set as a matched antagonistic pair via mirrored genealogies (Shimei/Agag) is the same structural pairing as the plus's 'the two dragons are I and Haman.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-08",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0664",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "God's preemptive weighing of Israel's shekels against Haman's future shekels is a genuine structural parallel to the plus's 'two lots, one for the people of God and one for all the nations.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-10",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0670",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The Megillah's reading as the one perpetual addition beyond Torah matches the plus's establishment of Adar 14-15 'throughout the generations forever.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-03",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1972",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman is introduced by name and rank INSIDE the quoted decree itself as the petitioner -- the same device Addition B uses (the counselor of exceptional judgment, second in honor) -- which MT's unquoted letter cannot license.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-03",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1974",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The Aramaic recension repeats the same in-letter introduction of Haman by name and rank, independently confirming the shared device.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1972",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Both open the rehabilitation letter by making Haman an ethnic alien intruded at court ('a stranger... of the seed of Amalek' / 'a Macedonian, stranger to Persian blood... came as a guest'), the identical formula with only the ethnonym swapped; MT gives only 'Agagite.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1974",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The Aramaic recension repeats the alien-guest-at-court formula for Haman verbatim, confirming it as a traditional shared development rather than a copyist's flourish.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1982",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "MT gives no basis for Haman threatening the king's own life; both here (the king's dream of Haman standing over him with a drawn sword) and in Addition E ('undertook to deprive us of our power and even our life') this specific non-MT charge is independently invented.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1968",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Both mount the identical non-MT defense that the Jews are indicted for no chargeable conduct except keeping the law/Torah -- Michael's brief and Addition E's verdict take the same argument-shape, which MT never adjudicates at all.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-09",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1966",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Both make the pur a matter adjudicated in a heavenly court (each day/month pleading its merit before God), matching Addition F's 'these two lots came... to the day of judgment before God' -- a non-MT device, since MT's pur is simply cast.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-08",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1965",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "God's one-line gloss 'you are Israel's lot' compresses the pur into a two-sided allotment (Israel vs. the nations), matching Addition F's own two-lots allegory -- thin but a genuine, non-MT interpretive move shared by both.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1957",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The Temple is absent from MT Esther entirely; both here (Haman's capital crime is counseling against rebuilding the Temple) and in Addition C ('quench the glory of your house and your altar') the conflict is independently relocated onto the sanctuary.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1929",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The Jews present refuse to recline with the Temple vessels at the banquet and are given a separate table -- the same concrete, non-MT refusal of the king's table that Addition C turns into Esther's plea.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-13",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1961",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "MT never has Haman claim divine honors; both here ('this wicked man set himself up as an object of worship') and in Addition C ('a mortal king marveled at forever') the same non-MT apotheosis charge is independently added.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-17",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1504",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "PDRE ties Haman's sons, as the king's scribes, directly to concealing the very record of Mordecai's exposure of the eunuchs -- a specific narrative link between Haman's household and the eunuch affair matching Addition A's stated cause of Haman's enmity.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-13",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1502",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The idol Haman wears makes homage to him literal idol-worship, matching the plus's charge that the enemies aim to have 'a mortal king marveled at forever' and open the nations' mouths to praise vain things -- a man exalted to divine honors, absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-16",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1507",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "At the banquet the king's wrath is kindled specifically against Haman ('הרשע הזה... הגם לכבוש את המלכה עמי בבית'), the precise narrative fulfillment of the plus's plea to 'turn his heart to hatred of the one making war on us.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1504",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The king's dream of Haman raising a sword against him gives narrative form to the plus's specific charge that Haman 'undertook to deprive us of our power and even our life' -- an assassination-plot detail absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1507",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "At the climax the king concludes Haman meant to seize both his wife and his throne, matching the plus's naming of Esther, 'the blameless partner of our kingdom,' as a specific target of the plot alongside Mordecai.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-10",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1504",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'אדבר דברים שאהיה מלך כמוהו' -- Haman's concealed aim to become king himself matches the plus's charge that he sought to transfer the dominion to himself, a detail beyond MT's bare account of his fall.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-04",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1486",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "PDRE pairs one champion from Agag's seed against one from Saul's seed by name (Haman/Mordecai) under divine foresight -- the nearest rabbinic analogue to Addition F's identification of the two combatants as Mordecai and Haman.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-09",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1371",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Asking precisely what Mordecai said in his bitter cry is the same gap Addition A's 'they cried out to God' leaves open.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-10",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1442",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Light -- this is Torah' expounds deliverance as dawning light, the specific light-and-sunrise image the dream turns on.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-10",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1259",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'The commoner leaps to the head' -- the least man vaulting over his betters -- matches 'the lowly were exalted and devoured the honored' exactly.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-16",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1456",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'He abandoned Torah and entered office' matches the same specific event -- Mordecai's court appointment -- Addition A reports as the king's reward.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-16",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1457",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai becoming an officer between the two census counts is the same court appointment Addition A reports.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-03",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1315",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The gemara's reconstructed king-counselor dialogue is the specific consultative frame Addition B narrates: 'when I inquired of my counselors, Haman pointed out to us.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-07",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1450",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'No standing, no place to set foot' is the specific elimination-forever language matching Addition B's stated purpose that the enemies never trouble the kingdom again.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-01",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1171",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'The enemy of the Holy One became poor, as one unable to save' is the exact negation of Addition C's opening claim that none can oppose the Lord when he wishes to save Israel.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-05",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1175",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Lev 26:44 cited specifically as Purim's proof-text matches Addition C's plea that God not overlook the portion he redeemed for himself.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-05",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1176",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Saul's sparing of Amalek/Agag as the ground of later punishment is the specific ancient-enmity detail (Haman ha-Agagi) behind 'desired to destroy your inheritance from the beginning.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-06",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1327",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The Exodus song at the sea is the specific redemption-from-Egypt precedent Addition C invokes as grounds for its petition.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-06",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1330",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'We are still Ahasuerus's slaves, redeemed only from death' directly engages the same Egypt-redemption comparison Addition C's petition raises.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-10",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1403",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'She heard the schoolchildren saying it in her father's house' is the same claim -- Israel's election known from birth within the family -- Addition C states.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1230",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Is there favoritism -- how did they merit the miracle?' is the same theodicy question Addition C answers with 'you are righteous, Lord.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-13",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1172",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'A man and not a king -- this is Haman' insists the adversary is merely mortal, the specific point of Addition C's complaint about a 'mortal king marveled at forever.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-14",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1432",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'The Holy One hurls calamity on the wicked without pity,' said of Haman's fall, matches Addition C's plea to 'make an example of the one who began this against us.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-14",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1258",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman glossed as 'ready for punishment -- standing to be hanged' is the specific designation-as-example Addition C's petition requests.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-16",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1405",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'So that he would be at hand for her, that she might trip him up before the king' is the specific strategic aim behind Addition C's plea for a word to sway 'the lion.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1368",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Malachi's intermarriage indictment is applied here specifically to Esther's situation, matching Addition C's abhorrence of 'the bed of the uncircumcised and of any foreigner.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-20",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1294",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The king's banquet and gifts to win her over 'availing nothing' matches Addition C's 'your servant has had no joy ... except in you.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-03",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1375",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'The cavity of her body dissolved' is the physical fear-response matching Addition D's 'her heart was constricted with fear' at this same scene.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-03",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1292",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Heaven contrived to make her beloved to her husband' matches Addition D's 'as one beloved' at the same moment she stands before the king.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-02",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1302",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'If he becomes haughty he is brought to poverty and bound in fetters' is the specific arrogance-to-ruin principle Addition E states about those honored too often.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1434",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'One [of the two gallows] was for Esther, for Ahasuerus was angry at what Haman did to her' matches Addition E's grievance that Haman demanded Esther's destruction, 'the blameless partner of our kingdom.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1447",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'A gallows -- in one row, each below the other' describes the household hanged together, matching Addition E's 'crucified ... together with his whole household.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-14",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1443",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'This is a festival -- they took festival days upon themselves' is the specific institution of joy in place of destruction Addition E describes.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-03",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1278",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Explaining Esther's name via a luminary ('a moon fair as the moon') is the same move Addition F makes reading the dream's light/sun/water as Esther.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-05",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1174",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's decree barring anyone from buying a Jew as a slave is the specific coordinated action of the nations against the Jews matching 'gathered together to destroy the name of the Jews.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-09",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1314",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'On 7 Adar Moses was born, the birth atoning for the death' is the same providential-timing claim behind Addition F's 'these two lots came to the hour and appointed day ... God remembered his people.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-10",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1480",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'It is impossible for the fifteenth to precede the fourteenth' fixes the identical ordered pair of dates -- Adar 14 and 15 -- Addition F establishes.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-10",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1151",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Listing the fifteenth of Adar among the walled-city obligations is specifically the second of Addition F's two established days.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-13",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1576",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Haman the wicked, who made himself into an idol' matches the plus's charge that the enemies' aim was to have a mortal marveled at as if divine, in place of God -- though the witness applies it to Haman rather than the king.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-06",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-book-esth-1580",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'One drew a thread of grace over her,' turning the king's disposition, matches the plus's 'God changed the king's spirit to gentleness.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-05",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-megillah-1599",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's added charges -- useless in war, cannot serve as judge or officer, prays daily for the destruction of the nations -- elaborate beyond MT 3:8, matching the edict's claim of constant opposition and ill-disposition to royal affairs.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-06",
  "witness_id": "otzar-midr-megillah-1600",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'One drew a thread of grace over her' again matches the plus's God turning the king's spirit to gentleness.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-11",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0196",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'The Revealer of secrets revealed to Mordecai this secret, that a decree of death had been decreed against Israel' is a distinct clause supplying Mordecai a mode of privileged foreknowledge matching the dream's revelation of what God resolved to do.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-04",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0121",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "On the Day of Atonement they curse the king and pray outright for his death and the breaking of his rule -- a specific escalation beyond MT's general 'do not keep the king's laws,' matching Addition B's charge that this nation continually disregards royal ordinances.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-01",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0105",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's confession, 'the living and enduring God, who is one in heaven,' is the specific sole-and-unopposed sovereignty Addition C invokes at the head of Mordecai's prayer.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0104",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's answer to the courtiers grounds the refusal in human lowliness (born of woman, few days, ends in dust), matching Addition C's disclaimer that the refusal was not out of insolence or pride.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0109",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "A second, distinct non-pride rationale -- Benjamin was unborn when Jacob bowed to Esau and has never bowed to any man -- again motivates the refusal by something other than personal pride, as Addition C insists.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0198",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman's robe bore two idol images, so bowing would be idolatry -- the specific non-MT reason matching Addition C's 'that I might not set the glory of a man above the glory of God.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-06",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0166",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's appeal recites the Exodus redemption -- plagues, the sea, Pharaoh's chariots drowned -- as the specific ground for the present plea, matching Addition C's own appeal to 'your portion, which you redeemed out of the land of Egypt.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-07",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0174",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther is pictured rising from dust and ashes to dress, presupposing the specific scene Addition C narrates of the queen exchanging her glory for garments of distress with ashes on her head, unattested in MT. One of the parallels the scholarly literature already records (control P05).",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-08",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0174",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "She rises 'bent over and not upright' from the three fasts -- the specific bodily posture matching Addition C's 'she humbled her body greatly.' One of the parallels the scholarly literature already records (control P05).",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0174",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther's own prayer, 'if Israel perish from the world, who will say before you Holy, holy, holy,' independently supplies Addition C's silenced-praise argument, distinct from the priests' version already linked at 0172.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-13",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0198",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The idol images on Haman's robe make homage to him literal worship of a mortal man -- the specific non-MT detail matching Addition C's fear of 'a mortal king marveled at forever.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-14",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0176",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Exact our insult from Haman... break Haman, and let there be no rising from his fall' is the specific direct petition matching Addition C's plea to turn the plot back upon its author.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-15",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0179",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Remember at this hour... let my request not be turned back' shares the specific temporal-crisis framing of Addition C's 'Remember, Lord; make yourself known in this time of our affliction.' One of the parallels the scholarly literature already records (control P05).",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-16",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0177",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Let Jacob's favour be placed in my mouth and Joseph's grace upon my tongue' as she enters is the specific petition for persuasive speech before the king matching Addition C's 'put a well-tuned word in my mouth before the lion.' One of the parallels the scholarly literature already records (control P05).",
  "ruled_by": "adversarial review, adopted by the editor",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-05",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0181",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Haman the king's executioner sought to kill Esther' before the scepter is extended is a specific non-MT mortal-danger beat inserted at the same narrative seam as Addition D's wrathful royal glance and Esther's collapse.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0246",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther identifies her people to the king as 'the nation of the Jews, called the sons of the Master of all' -- matching Addition E's 'sons of the Most High, the greatest, living God.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-16",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0266",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Heralds proclaim that whoever does not give peace to Mordecai and the Jews will be put to death and his house made a dunghill -- a specific penalty-for-noncompliance clause matching Addition E's threat against any disobedient city.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-01",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0279",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's gallows speech -- 'you planned evil against Israel, and the Knower of hidden things brought your design up on your own head' -- credits divine causation for the reversal, matching Addition F's 'these things have come from God.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-07",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0077",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai as the one 'through whom signs and mighty deeds were done for Israel in their four exiles' shares Addition F's specific closing vocabulary of signs and wonders such as have not happened among the nations.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-09",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0202",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The reversal is explicitly triggered when 'the remembrance of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob came up before their Father in heaven' -- the specific causal 'remembering' that matches Addition F's 'God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance' at the appointed hour.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-11",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0361",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's private revelation through Elijah that Israel was sentenced to destruction is the same device as the dream: God's resolve disclosed to him alone, ahead of events.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-11",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0392",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The night-midrash's Revealer of secrets disclosing the death decree to Mordecai, in a paragraph that also notes dreams were revealed that night, closely parallels the dream's disclosure of God's resolve.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-13",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0344",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The targum supplies the mechanism MT lacks -- Mordecai understood the plot because he knew seventy languages -- matching the plus's account of how he overheard and construed their designs.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-13",
  "witness_id": "rashi-esther-1000",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rashi gives the same seventy-languages mechanism (they spoke in Tursi, not knowing Mordecai understood) for how he overheard the plot.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-17",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0343",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The targum causally ties the eunuchs' plot to Mordecai's rise ('the queen wants to install Mordecai'), the same rare move the plus makes in linking the eunuchs' downfall to Haman's enmity toward Mordecai -- a connection MT does not draw at all.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-06",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0430",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The heralds' mocking 'Haman our father, the fool' shares the specific honorific 'father' with the edict's 'a second father to us' -- an epithet not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-09",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0408",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther lifting her eyes to heaven and pleading for deliverance mid-audience is a specific added gesture, not in MT, matching the plus's plea for help from one who is alone with no helper but God.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "rashi-esther-1020",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rashi's specific sins -- bowing to Nebuchadnezzar's image, enjoying Ahasuerus's banquet -- match the plus's confession that Israel sinned by glorifying its enemies' gods; a rabbinic theodicy not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0361",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The decree is sealed 'because they took pleasure in wicked Ahasuerus's banquet' -- the same specific sin-reason theodicy as the plus's confession.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0346",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman going down to Jerusalem specifically to nullify the Temple's rebuilding matches the plus's charge that the enemies aimed to quench the glory of God's house and altar -- a Temple-opposition tradition absent from MT Esther altogether.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "rashi-esther-1068",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rashi ties Haman's ten sons to the Ezra-era accusation that halted Temple rebuilding, the same specific Temple-opposition tradition underlying the plus's charge.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0380",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The king's oath specifically exempting Temple rebuilding from his 'half the kingdom' offer is the same Temple-opposition tradition matching the plus's naming of God's house and altar as the enemies' target.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-16",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0378",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The prayer's close, asking that she be granted mercy in his eyes so he not kill her and grant her request, matches the plus's petition for a persuasive word and a turned royal heart.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-18",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0342",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther keeping sabbaths and festivals privately while serving publicly as queen matches the plus's distinction between the royal ornament worn in public and what she rejects in her days of rest -- a private/public split not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-20",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0330",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther 'led away by force (be'onsa)' to the king's house is a non-MT elaboration matching the plus's dating of her sorrow from 'the day of my change.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-21",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0408",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The doubled petition -- deliver my life, and the redemption of my people -- matches the structure of the plus's closing plea for both 'us' and 'me.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-06",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0378",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther's prayer specifically asks 'that he not kill me,' directly answered by the plus's royal reassurance 'you shall not die' -- petition and fulfillment matched across the two texts.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-04",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0323",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The king's protest that his seven ministers' bad counsel led him to shed innocent blood, for which they are later crucified, is the specific scenario the plus's maxim about officials implicating rulers in innocent bloodshed describes; not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0430",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Haman our father, the fool' again shares the specific 'father' honorific with the plus's 'proclaimed our father... second to the royal throne,' an epithet absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0392",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The night-vision angel's warning that Haman wants to kill the king and also kill 'the man who saved you,' i.e. Mordecai, matches the plus's charge that Haman plotted against the king's power and life and demanded the destruction of his savior and benefactor Mordecai -- a regicide plot absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-16",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0430",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The heralds' proclaimed sanction (whoever does not greet Mordecai and the Jews shall have his house made a dunghill) shares the specific universal-destruction-for-noncompliance structure with the plus's decree against any disobedient city.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-02",
  "witness_id": "rashi-esther-1020",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rashi is the one witness in the corpus that gives Mordecai a dream at all ('the master of the dream told him'), matching the plus's own recollection of the dream he saw and its fulfillment -- a rare, specific convergence.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-04",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0351",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The targum frames Mordecai and Haman as the hereditary heirs of Jacob and Esau, matching Addition F's own explicit identification of the two dragons as Mordecai and Haman.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-06",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0391",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'They poured out their hearts... he heard the voice of their prayer and granted their request that night' matches Addition F's gloss that Israel is the nation that cried out to God and was saved.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-10",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0459",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Reading the scroll in synagogues is a specific, non-MT rabbinic institution giving concrete content to the plus's 'assembly' attached to the two days.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2044",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The angels' name-by-name cultic pleading ('who offers before you... who builds the altar... who wears the priestly garments') matches the same Addition C complex as — the enemies' aim to quench the altar and silence praise — a specific non-MT theological framing shared across witnesses.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2065",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'אפשר לצדקת זאת שתנשא לערל' (can this righteous woman be married to an uncircumcised man) shares the specific term 'uncircumcised' (ערל) applied to the identical referent — Esther's marriage to Ahasuerus — as Addition C's 'I abhor the bed of the uncircumcised.' Ruled motif rather than verbatim: the agreement is a single word.",
  "ruled_by": "editor",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2081",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'ותלו אותו ואת בניו על העץ' (they hanged him and his sons on the tree, as one act) diverges from MT's own separated chronology (Haman hanged in ch.7, sons slain/hanged later in ch.9) and instead matches Addition E's compressed claim that Haman 'has been crucified...together with his whole household.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2075",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "ER consistently renders Haman's punishment with צלב (crucify) rather than MT's own תלה (hang) — 'גורלך עולה להצלב' — matching Addition E's ἐσταύρωται (has been crucified), a shared departure from MT's own vocabulary reflecting a later, Greco-Roman-inflected reading of the penalty.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-06",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1872",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The circular explicitly summons 'every nation and tongue' to be ready to attack Israel on a fixed day -- the same specific universal-muster-against-one-nation detail as Addition A's 'every nation prepared for war... to make war against a righteous nation.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-01",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1820",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Glosses 'patshegen ha-ketav' with the Greek loanword 'antigrafon d'iggarta,' directly preserving Addition B's own heading phrase (antigraphon tes epistoles) as the midrash's lemma -- though note that LXX Esth 3:14 (non-plus, MT-parallel text) already renders patshegen with a form of antigraphon, so the loanword itself may predate the plus; still, the specific Greek document-heading vocabulary is a genuine, distinctive match.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-07",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1802",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman's stated grievance is explicitly ancestral -- 'the Jews have hated my fathers from of old' -- matching Addition B's distinctive temporal phrase 'those hostile of old and now' (tous palai kai nyn dysmeneis), a specific continuity-of-enmity claim MT does not supply.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-01",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1899",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's own prayer ('Master of the world, you wrote in your Torah... where are your former mercies, Lord, which you swore to David') supplies him with an actual invocation of the Lord recalling his works and promises -- the same act of prayer Addition C stages at exactly this point ('he besought the Lord, remembering all the works of the Lord').",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1918",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'I cannot flatter a wicked man... it is not that I may not bow, but that the Shekhinah resting on me should not be displaced' -- matching Addition C's 'I did this so that I might not set the glory of a man above the glory of God' precisely.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1900",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther's single formulated sentence before the king -- 'an adversary and enemy: adversary to those above and enemy to those below' -- is precisely what raises the king's wrath against Haman, matching Addition C's petition for 'a well-tuned word... that turns his heart to hatred of the one making war on us.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-05",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1880",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Asher karahu' (Deut 25:18) is read specifically as Amalek, 'one of Amalek's seed has risen and seized Israel' -- matching Addition C's petition against enemies who 'have desired to destroy your inheritance from the beginning,' the Amalek-as-ancient-enemy frame.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-07",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1887",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther is 'shaken out of her ashes and stripped of the sackcloth' before being reclothed -- presupposing exactly the ash-and-mourning Esther of Addition C, a detail MT never supplies (MT puts sackcloth only on Mordecai, not Esther).",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-08",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1898",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The mourning assembly includes women with hair loosed and unbound ('nashim se'aran satur') -- the rare, concrete detail of disheveled hair as a mourning gesture that MT never supplies, matching Addition C's Esther filling with disheveled hair 'every place that had adorned her rejoicing.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-08",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1853",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Hegai's recurring question, 'why do you not adorn yourself like all the women,' establishes Esther's habitual disowning of adornment -- matching Addition C's 'she humbled her body greatly' as a specific refusal of beautification.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-10",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1863",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Benjamin my father was in his mother's womb and did not bow, and I am his son's son; as my father did not bow, so I will not' -- the same birth-and-family-tribe grounding as the plus's 'I have heard from my birth, in the tribe of my family.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1807",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "God tells the patriarchs their sons are condemned 'because they did not sanctify my name in Nebuchadnezzar's days' -- a specific named sin, matching Addition C's confession that they were handed to their enemies 'because we glorified their gods... you are righteous, Lord.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1873",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Your sins have now been exacted from you: your children were sold because of eating and drinking' -- the decree read explicitly as deserved punishment for a named sin, matching Addition C's confession 'we have sinned before you... you are righteous, Lord.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1826",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's whole career is dated 'from when he went down to annul the building of the Temple' (citing Ezra 4:6) -- making the enemy's real target God's house, matching Addition C's specific clause 'to quench the glory of your house and your altar.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1862",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Haman's whole career is dated from when he went down to annul the building of the House' -- matching Addition C's 'to quench the glory of your house and your altar' specifically.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1868",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's indictment targets their worship itself -- Sabbath assemblies, the Shema, a prayer humbling the arrogant, Torah curses read against us -- matching Addition C's specific clause 'to stop the mouths of those who praise you.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-13",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1900",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "When Haman proclaims 'thus shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor,' Israel answers aloud 'not the king who is on earth, but the King who is in heaven' -- directly matching Addition C's refusal to let 'a mortal king be marveled at forever.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-13",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1802",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman embroiders an idol on his garment over his heart so that everyone who bows to him bows to an idol -- matching Addition C's charge that the plan is 'to open the mouths of the nations to praise vain things' and elevate a mortal to divine honor.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-15",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1871",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'The people to do with them as you please' is read as meaning the king deals not with them but with God ('in all their affliction he was afflicted... I am with him in trouble') -- matching Addition C's 'make yourself known in this time of our affliction' at the identical narrative moment.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-16",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1904",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther's single sentence before the king -- 'an adversary and enemy: adversary to those above and enemy to those below' -- is precisely what raises the king's wrath against Haman, matching Addition C's petition for 'a well-tuned word... that turns his heart to hatred of the one making war on us.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-18",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1889",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther sets her crown down beside Haman's purely to breed jealousy -- handling the royal ornament as a political tool rather than as honor, the same instrumental, non-honoring attitude toward the diadem that Addition C states outright.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-20",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1859",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "From the moment she is made queen, Esther lives in continual fear ('woe is me, perhaps he will kill Esther as he killed Vashti') and still will not disclose her people -- matching Addition C's 'your servant has had no joy from the day of my change until now.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-03",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1859",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther is described as more beautiful than Vashti's own portrait while simultaneously in continual dread of being killed -- matching Addition D's precise combination of 'blushing in the height of her beauty' with 'her heart constricted with fear.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-02",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1887",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Ministering angels hold the king's face and light his blinded eyes so he becomes, in effect, a radiant apparition -- matching Addition D's Esther telling him 'I saw you, my lord, as an angel of God... your face is full of graces.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-01",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1820",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The gloss 'antigrafon d'iggarta' on 'patshegen ha-ketav' is the same Greek document-heading vocabulary Addition E's counter-rescript reuses (antigraphon tes epistoles) -- though note LXX Esth 3:14 (non-plus text) already renders patshegen with a form of antigraphon, so this may reflect the base translation layer rather than the plus specifically; still a genuine, if qualified, lexical echo.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-03",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1805",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's letter grounds the decree explicitly in Jewish ingratitude -- they keep a festival celebrating the death of Pharaoh, who 'did them many kindnesses' -- matching Addition E's opening charge that 'they forget gratitude... and think to escape the justice of the God who sees all,' a specific ingratitude-to-a-benefactor frame absent from MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-03",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1869",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The circular's charge that they keep a festival rejoicing at the death of Pharaoh 'who did them many kindnesses' matches Addition E's opening principle of ingratitude to a benefactor, a specific detail MT 3:8 does not supply.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-04",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1842",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Memucan, one of the seven who see the king's face, gives the very counsel by which Vashti is destroyed -- matching Addition E's specific charge that 'the persuasion of friends entrusted with managing affairs... has made many partners in innocent blood.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-05",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1803",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Ahasuerus's own sound judgment ('we cannot prevail against them, their God never abandons them... desist from this evil') is overborne by Haman's persuasion -- matching Addition E's precise claim that malice deceives 'the sincere good faith of those who hold power.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-05",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1870",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The king refuses to sell the Jews and Haman argues him out of it with a false premise ('that was true while God favored them, but now his house is destroyed and he is angry with them') -- matching Addition E's 'malice deceiving... the sincere good faith of those who hold power' precisely.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1805",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's own titulature -- 'the great one of the king and second to him, head of the prefects, choicest of the nobles' -- matches Addition E's description of him as 'paid homage by all, second to the royal throne,' a specific and distinctive shared detail.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1904",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The king reads the throne-room scene as Haman conspiring against his own life together with Esther ('he has paired with Esther to kill me... will he even force the queen while I am in the house?') -- matching Addition E's charge that Haman sought to deprive the king of power and life, and to destroy Esther along with the nation.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1897",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Gabriel calls the king an ingrate and sends him to repay 'Mordecai' as his benefactor -- matching Addition E's specific epithet for Mordecai, 'our savior and constant benefactor,' a title MT never gives him.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-10",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1903",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Esther argues for haste because Haman is a duke whose sons, governors throughout the world, will write letters and revolt against the king -- matching Addition E's charge that Haman's hidden aim was 'to transfer the dominion of the Persians to the Macedonians.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1803",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Ahasuerus refuses to sell the Jews because their God destroyed Pharaoh, Sisera, Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar -- the Persian king's own confession that the Jews' God protects and empowers them, matching Addition E's finding that they are 'sons of the living God' who 'directs the kingdom.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-11",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1871",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Ahasuerus tells Haman 'you have no business with them but with the Holy One' -- the king's own acknowledgment that the Jews answer to God alone, matching Addition E's finding that they are 'sons of the Most High, the living God who directs the kingdom for us.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1892",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "A bat kol declares 'tomorrow that man will be crucified' (nitzlav), using specifically crucifixion vocabulary for Haman's end rather than MT's simple hanging (talah) -- the same distinctive lexical choice as the Greek's estaurōsthai.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-16",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1893",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The midrash imports Darius's sanction clause (Ezra 6:11 -- whoever alters the decree, a beam is pulled from his house and he is impaled on it) directly into the Esther narrative as a penalty-for-noncompliance formula -- structurally matching Addition E's closing sanction clause for any city that disobeys, a specific device MT nowhere supplies for either decree.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-03",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1849",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Hadassah is glossed via Zech 1:8 ('standing among the myrtles in the deep [metzulah]') and Isa 44:27 ('who says to the deep, be dry') -- Esther figured specifically by deep water, matching Addition F's identification of Esther as the river that grew from the small spring.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-05",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1805",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The circular's stated aim is 'to uproot her memory from the world, so that they have neither memory nor name nor seed' -- matching Addition F's specific clause that 'the nations are those gathered together to destroy the NAME of the Jews,' a shared, distinctive 'destroy the name' detail.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-09",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1807",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "That night God rises from the throne of judgment to sit on the throne of mercy after the heavenly household pleads Israel's case -- matching Addition F's specific claim that the two lots 'came to... the day of judgment before God... and God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance,' the same judgment-to-mercy turning point tied to the identical night.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-10",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-1-1812",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The midrash insists this deliverance, unlike the first redemption from Egypt, 'will have no cessation forever' -- matching Addition F's specific claim that the Adar days stand 'throughout the generations, forever,' a shared distinctive permanence claim about Purim specifically (not the Exodus generally).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-05",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1718",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "R. Levi's chain of persecutors — Esau, Pharaoh, Haman, Gog, each improving on the last's scheme of total destruction — matches the plus's 'desired to destroy your inheritance from the beginning'; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-06",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1729",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai's message to Esther grounds hope specifically in the Exodus redemption ('כששמט נפשות בכוריהן וטבע שונאיהם בים'), matching the plus's appeal not to overlook the portion redeemed out of Egypt; not MT material (this exchange is absent from MT).",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1630",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "R. Shimon b. Yohai's answer — the generation was liable to destruction 'מפני שהשתחוו לצלם' — is exactly the plus's confession that they were handed to their enemies because they glorified other gods; not MT material (MT gives no theological cause).",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1723",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "At the very point Addition C's prayer stands, Mordecai himself says destruction was decreed 'מיום שכרו לצלמו של נבוכדנאצר' — the same idolatry-as-cause confession, in the same speaker's mouth; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-13",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1699",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman's idol worn on his garments makes homage to him worship of a man — matching the plus's fear that a mortal king be 'marveled at forever' in God's place; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-17",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1725",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'במוך היתה משמשת' — Esther used a barrier device to avoid real union with the gentile king — a concrete practice expressing exactly the plus's abhorrence of the bed of the uncircumcised; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-21",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1741",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The doomed children's weeping 'נשמעה בכיתן במרום' immediately precedes God tearing up the decree, matching the plus's 'hear the voice of the despairing, and deliver us from the hand of the wicked'; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-02",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1697",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The parable of the pig fed generously and then slaughtered explicitly explains Haman's promotion as the cause of his fall ('בתחלה גדל ולבסוף ויתלו את המן'), matching the plus's reflection on those honored too generously growing arrogant; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-03",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1742",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The angel beats the sleeping king crying 'כפוי טובה כפוי טובה' at the very moment of his insomnia, matching the plus's charge of doing away with gratitude; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1747",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman is unmasked as a village barber of twenty-two years, forced to bathe and barber Mordecai — matching the plus's insistence that the man second to the throne was in truth of low, alien standing; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-14",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1709",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "God's own answer to Haman's calendar-counting — 'תרין יומין דאתון להון שמחה במפלתו של אותו האיש' — explicitly makes the appointed days joy at Haman's own downfall, matching the plus's theological claim that God turned this day from destruction into joy; goes beyond MT's mere fixing of dates.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-04",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1652",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The king's belated regret over Vashti's death and blame on his seven princes matches the plus's counselors whose persuasion made the ruler a partner in innocent blood; MT never states Vashti was killed, so the regret motif is a genuine addition.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-05",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1652",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The same passage makes the advisers, not the king, the culprits who are punished for deceiving him — matching the plus's 'deceiving... the sincere good faith of those who hold power'; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-05",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1722",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'ויקומו כל הגוים על גוי קטן לאבד זכרו מן הארץ' shares the specific phrase 'destroy his name/memory,' matching the plus's 'gathered together to destroy the name of the Jews'; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-06",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1741",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The fasting children cry out, are heard, and the decree is torn up — matching the plus's 'my nation is Israel, who cried out to God and were saved'; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "otzar-drash-purim-1592",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Parallel recension of the same scene: 'what of the Torah?' / 'make do with the upper worlds,' with the angels crying 'if Israel ceases, why are we?' -- the enemies' plan reaching God's own Torah and worship, as in the prayer's charge.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-05",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1375",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'The cavity of her body dissolved' is the specific physical collapse matching Addition D's scene of the queen fainting and sinking onto her maid.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1259",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'The commoner leaps to the head, for Scripture lists him last, so he was the least, yet he leapt to the front' matches Addition E's Haman precisely: no claim of Persian blood, a mere guest, raised to second place.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-10",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1373",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'Haman rose higher than Ahasuerus, saying what never entered the king's mind' is the specific usurpation charge behind Addition E's claim he aimed to transfer the empire to the Macedonians.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1445",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The fuller gloss identifying 'your word' with circumcision, 'given by a saying,' makes Haman's decree an attack on a commandment identified with God's own utterance -- matching 'abolish the decree of your own mouth' precisely.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-06",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1443",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'This is a festival -- they took festival days upon themselves' is the concrete institution answering Addition C's petition 'turn our mourning into feasting.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-15",
  "witness_id": "rashi-megillah-1406",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther's stated reason for inviting Haman, 'that the Holy One should take notice,' matches Addition C's plea in this verse, 'make yourself known in this time of our affliction.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-06",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0196",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'Pharaoh and the Egyptians did not counsel against us such counsel, and the kings of the nations did not think such a thought' is a distinct clause of nations conspiring against Israel, matching the dream's 'every nation prepared for war... against a righteous nation.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-14",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0279",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'You devised evil against Israel, and the Knower of secrets raised your device upon your own head' is the same recurring, specific poetic-justice formula matching Addition C's petition to turn their plan back upon them.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-04",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0180",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'She stood at the inner gate facing the king's house, and the king was sitting on his royal throne... facing the king's gate' is the specific structural framing matching Addition D's queen passing through every door to stand before the enthroned king.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-03",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0264",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'By their guile and falsehood they deceived the kingdom and wrote letters improper before Heaven and evil among men' includes the specific escaping-justice charge matching Addition E's ingrates who suppose they will escape the justice of the all-seeing God.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-13",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0262",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'The king granted the Jews in every city to assemble and stand for their lives' is the specific operative clause matching Addition E's order allowing the Jews to defend themselves.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-14",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0287",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'The month turned for them from mourning to gladness and from distress to a good day' closely matches Addition E's 'a day of joy instead of destruction.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-15",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0268",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The day is kept as feasting and a good day in every province, with many gentiles becoming Jews -- the specific gentile-participation detail matching Addition E's summons to the Persians well disposed toward them.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-01",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0251",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'They hanged him on the gallows prepared for Mordecai, and the wrath of the King of kings subsided' explicitly credits divine action for the outcome, matching Addition F's 'these things have come from God.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-05",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0281",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The witness names the enemies precisely as those who said 'in a few days we will kill you and dash your children to the ground,' the specific counterpart to Addition F's 'nations gathered to destroy the name of the Jews.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-09",
  "witness_id": "targ-sheni-esth-0119",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The New Year liturgy's plea that 'our remembrance come in for good and our enemies' for evil' pictures a day of judgment before God with two opposed reckonings, the closest structural counterpart in the work to Addition F's two lots reaching the day of judgment.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-10",
  "witness_id": "panim-acherim-2-1923",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The deliverance is grounded in an inherited family merit passed down from birth -- Shimei's wife hid Zadok and Abiathar, so 'two righteous ones who would redeem Israel, Mordecai and Esther, will come from her' -- matching the plus's 'I have heard from my birth, in the tribe of my family,' the specific birth-lineage-election frame.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-02",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1503",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Haman's own boast 'ha-melekh megadel oti ve-ha-malkah meromemet oti ve-ein gadol mimeni' is a specific narrative instance of Addition E's opening reflection that those over-honored by their benefactors' kindness grow arrogant, immediately before his fall.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-05",
  "witness_id": "pdre-1486",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "PDRE 49:2 sets one champion from Agag's seed against one from Saul's seed as a matched pair under divine foreknowledge -- the nearest rabbinic analogue to Addition A's two great dragons 'ready to fight,' the symmetric partner of the accepted link at esth-plus-10.03-04.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "low"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-05",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0599",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rava's reading of 'the will of each man' as the opposed wills of Mordecai and Haman pairs them as two confronting men, matching the plus's two dragons 'ready to fight.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-02",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0589",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The debate over whether feasting distant provinces first secured their loyalty gives the king a calculated policy toward his subjects, matching Addition B's self-presented policy of gentle, peaceable rule.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-03.13-07",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0781",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman's sons' epitaph, written so they would have 'no rising again after their fall,' ironically echoes the plus's language of the enemies' destruction 'once for all... undisturbed for all time.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0622",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai called Yehudi for repudiating idolatry is the same religious-refusal claim as the plus's denial of insolence, pride, or love of glory in not bowing.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-11",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0713",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther's own inquiry into whether Israel's sin caused the decree matches the plus's confession that they sinned and were delivered into their enemies' hands.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-12",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0544",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'We are slaves... God has not forsaken us... in the time of Haman' specifically frames the Esther-era Jews as enslaved, matching the plus's 'the bitterness of our slavery.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-13",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0550",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'A man, and not a king' -- denying Haman royal status -- matches the plus's fear that a mortal king be 'marvelled at forever' in God's place.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-19",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0597",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The heavenly voice's warning that the banquet reuses the Temple vessels for which an earlier generation perished directly grounds the plus's denial that Esther 'drunk the wine of libations' or 'honored the king's banquet.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-21",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0731",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther's plea to be delivered 'from the power of the dog... from the lion's mouth' matches the plus's closing petition to be delivered 'from the hand of the wicked... from my fear.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-03",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0732",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The angel supporting her sinking neck applies equally to the plus's second collapse, mid-speech.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-02",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0725",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Haman's own words -- his vast wealth 'worth nothing to me' -- directly match the plus's reflection that men 'unable to bear their own satiety' turn on their benefactors.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0752",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'A slave who acquires property -- to whom does the slave belong?' underscores Haman's essential servile status despite his rise, matching the plus's 'stranger to the blood of the Persians... who came to us as a guest.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0762",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther's charge that Haman, having had Vashti killed out of jealousy, now seeks the queen's life matches the plus's charge that Haman sought 'to deprive us of our power and even our life.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-15",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0536",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The same 'everlasting sign... days of Purim' establishment of a perpetual festival matches the plus's instruction to keep this day 'among your own named festivals... now and hereafter.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-04",
  "witness_id": "b-megillah-0599",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Rava's pairing of 'a Jewish man' (Mordecai) against 'a man, adversary and enemy' (Haman) is the same antagonistic-pair framing as the plus's explicit identification, 'the two dragons are I and Haman.'",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "oral",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-16",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1692",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'העביר שני קלסנטרין ומושיב הברברי הזה' states from the enemies' side the same replacement-appointment of Mordecai to the eunuchs' post that the plus describes; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1701",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Mordecai is charged with 'לבטל קלבסים של מלך' and answers 'שאני יהודי' and by Benjamin's precedent — the same accusation of personal insolence that the plus's prayer explicitly denies; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-15",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1731",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'ותלבש אסתר מלכות... שלבשתה רוח הקדש' makes donning the royal robes a reception of the Holy Spirit at the very point the plus asks for courage; not MT (MT only records the clothing, with no such empowerment).",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-02",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1731",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The same clothing-with-ruaḥ-ha-qodesh answers the plus's 'becoming radiant, having called upon God'; goes beyond MT's bare notice of her royal apparel.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-02",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1733",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "Angels literally hold up the king's face and three angels attend the throne — matching what the plus has Esther say figuratively, 'I saw you, my lord, as an angel of God'; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-03",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1733",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'ולא היה כח באסתר ליגע בו' with an angel drawing her hand to the sceptre matches the plus's collapse while she is speaking; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-02",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1696",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "R. Levi's parable of the recruit deliberately raised so his execution will be exemplary matches the plus's reflection on those honored too often by their benefactors; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-04",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1647",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The sages refuse to judge Vashti for fear the king will later regret it and blame them — a specific self-protective calculation by royal counselors matching the plus's advisers who become partners in innocent blood; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-08",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1649",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'מכאן שהדיוט קופץ בראש' applies specifically to Haman's own unworthy rise to prominence, matching the plus's charge that this outsider was elevated to second in the kingdom.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-09",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1751",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Esther's stated reason for haste — Haman's sons are commanders worldwide poised to revolt at his letters — matches the plus's charge that Haman moved to deprive the king of his power and his life; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-10",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1751",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The same sentence makes Haman's sons commanders throughout the world poised to seize power at his word, matching the plus's hidden aim of transferring the dominion; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1741",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'שבר את החותמות וקרע את האגרת והפר עצתו' — physically annulling Haman's sealed letters — matches the very device of Addition E's second letter, 'do not act on the letters sent by Haman'; MT's solution is a second decree, not annulment of the first.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-12",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1762",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "'כולהו עשרה בחד זקיפא אזדקיפו' — all ten sons hanged together on a single stake — matches the plus's combined execution of Haman 'together with his whole household' more specifically than MT's separated battle-then-hanging sequence.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-10.03-06",
  "witness_id": "yalkut-esther-1722",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "'ויצר לגוי הקטן מאד ויצעק אל ה'... ויתרומם הגוי הקטן' matches the plus's 'my nation is Israel, who cried out to God and were saved'; not MT material.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-01.01-17",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1981",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "MT gives no reason for Haman's enmity toward Mordecai; here Haman's son Shimshai has a specific interest in suppressing the record of the eunuchs' plot, matching Addition A's non-MT causal claim that Haman sought to harm Mordecai 'on account of' the two eunuchs.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-04",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1949",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "Both independently exculpate the king and place the blood on his advisers: Addition E's 'the persuasion of friends... made many partners in innocent blood' matches the midrash's named, executed 'seven princes of Persia and Media' blamed for Vashti's death, with no MT basis for either.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-05",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1949",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "The same passage's explicit premise -- the king acted 'not of my own knowledge but on the counsel of the princes' -- is the specific mechanism Addition E names as advisers deceiving the sincere good faith of those in power.",
  "ruled_by": "verification pass",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-08.12-02",
  "witness_id": "abba-guryon-1958",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The mashal of the pig fattened without measure only for the slaughter, applied directly to Haman, illustrates the same non-generic theorem as Addition E's opening clause: those honored too often, 'unable to bear their own satiety,' turn on their benefactors.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "lost-intermediary",
  "conduit_confidence": "medium"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-03",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0392",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "In the night-midrash Mordecai answers his accusers in his own first-person voice, giving idolatry (not pride) as his reason for not bowing -- the same self-defense genre and content as Addition C's disclaimer.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-04.17-04",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0392",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The vivid, specific detail that Haman's robe bore two embroidered idol-images, front and back, so that bowing would be idol worship, matches the plus's reasoning that he would not set a man's glory above God's; not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-04",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0378",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The king sitting on his throne 'looking straight opposite the gate of the house' is a specific staging detail matching the plus's account of Esther passing through every door to stand before the enthroned king; not in MT.",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-02",
  "witness_id": "targ-rishon-esth-0408",
  "verdict": "soft-yes",
  "rationale": "The targum's double address to Ahasuerus as simultaneously an exalted King and 'king of the earth' is the specific device matching the plus's fusing of the human king with 'an angel of God.'",
  "ruled_by": "flagged by the editor for further study",
  "conduit": "aramaic",
  "conduit_confidence": "rule"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-01",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2121",
  "verdict": "motif",
  "rationale": "garments of her beauty and jewels of her glory for 'put on her glory'; one clause, and MT 5:1 supplies the donning of royalty.",
  "ruled_by": "direct reading against the written verbatim standard",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-02",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2121",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "two maids; she leans on one 'by royal custom' (ὡς τρυφερευομένη), the other follows holding up her jewels (κουφίζουσα τὴν ἔνδυσιν).",
  "ruled_by": "direct reading against the written verbatim standard",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-03",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2121",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "cheerful face (ותצהיל פניה) and the fear hidden in her heart (ותכס הדאגה אשר בלבה), in order.",
  "ruled_by": "direct reading against the written verbatim standard",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-04",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2121",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "she stands before him; the king on his royal throne in gold and precious stones (בלבוש זהב ואבן יקרה).",
  "ruled_by": "direct reading against the written verbatim standard",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-05",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2121",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "his eyes blazing with anger; she faints (ותפג רוחה) and lays her head on the maid supporting her.",
  "ruled_by": "direct reading against the written verbatim standard",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.01-06",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2121",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "the king springs up in alarm from his throne (ויקם המלך בבהלה מכסאו = ἀγωνιάσας ἀνεπήδησεν ἀπὸ τοῦ θρόνου), embraces her, 'this law is not laid on you'. Control P11.",
  "ruled_by": "direct reading against the written verbatim standard",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-01",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2121",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "his arm (not the rod) on her neck, and 'why did you not speak to me' (λάλησόν μοι), in order.",
  "ruled_by": "direct reading against the written verbatim standard",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 },
 {
  "plus_id": "esth-plus-05.02-02",
  "witness_id": "esther-rabbah-2121",
  "verdict": "verbatim",
  "rationale": "'when I saw you, my soul was troubled before your glory' for 'I saw you... my heart was troubled at the fear of your glory'.",
  "ruled_by": "direct reading against the written verbatim standard",
  "conduit": "medieval-retranslation",
  "conduit_confidence": "high"
 }
]