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  "id": "esth-plus-01.01-02",
  "section": "Addition A",
  "letter": "A",
  "seq": 2,
  "rahlfs_ref": "1:1b",
  "rahlfs_verified": true,
  "swete_ref": "19.prologue",
  "mt_anchor": "Esth 1:1",
  "greek": {
   "text": "ἄνθρωπος Ἰουδαῖος οἰκῶν ἐν Σούσοις τῇ πόλει, ἄνθρωπος μέγας, θεραπεύων ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ τοῦ βασιλέως·",
   "license": "cc-by-sa",
   "source": "Swete"
  },
  "english": {
   "text": "a Jewish man living in the city of Susa, a great man, serving at the king's court;",
   "license": "cc-by",
   "status": "draft-awaiting-approval"
  },
  "motif": "Mordecai introduced: a Jew in Susa, serving at court.",
  "retroversions": [],
  "retroversions_withheld": 2,
  "summary": {
   "verbatim": 0,
   "motif": 0,
   "soft_yes": 2,
   "rejected": 14,
   "ancient_verbatim": 0,
   "rabbinic_witness": false,
   "retranslation_only": false
  }
 },
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  {
   "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",
   "witness": {
    "id": "yalkut-esther-1657",
    "work": "yalkut-esther",
    "ref": "Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1052:2",
    "ref_source": "Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1052:2",
    "language": "hebrew",
    "stratum": "medieval",
    "part": null,
    "date_range": [
     1200,
     1300
    ],
    "license": "unknown",
    "source": "sefaria",
    "source_ref": "Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1052:2",
    "via": null,
    "text": null,
    "withheld": "Licence not stated — research only, never published verbatim"
   }
  },
  {
   "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",
   "witness": {
    "id": "yalkut-esther-1686",
    "work": "yalkut-esther",
    "ref": "Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1053:29",
    "ref_source": "Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1053:29",
    "language": "hebrew",
    "stratum": "medieval",
    "part": null,
    "date_range": [
     1200,
     1300
    ],
    "license": "unknown",
    "source": "sefaria",
    "source_ref": "Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1053:29",
    "via": null,
    "text": null,
    "withheld": "Licence not stated — research only, never published verbatim"
   }
  }
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