Addition A · Mordecai's dream and the eunuchs' plot · Greek before 1:1 · unit 1
The date, and Mordecai's genealogy and tribe.
Rahlfs 1:1a · Swete, Esther, prologue · .txt · .json
Ἔτους δευτέρου βασιλεύοντος Ἀρταξέρξου τοῦ μεγάλου βασιλέως τῇ μιᾷ τοῦ Νεισὰ ἐνύπνιον ἴδεν Μαρδοχαῖος ὁ τοῦ Ἰαείρου τοῦ Σεμεείου τοῦ Κεισαίου ἐκ φυλῆς Βενιαμείν,
In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the great king, on the first day of Nisan, Mordecai son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, saw a dream.draft English
What the rabbinic bench shows
No witness No rabbinic or medieval Jewish text on this bench carries this plus at verbatim or motif grade. This is a finding, not an omission; see negative results for what the bench does and does not contain.
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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).
Text not reproduced: licence not stated — research only, never published verbatim. Consult Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061) at the reference above.
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).