Addition A · Mordecai's dream and the eunuchs' plot · Greek before 1:1 · unit 2
Mordecai introduced: a Jew in Susa, serving at court.
Rahlfs 1:1b · Swete, Esther, prologue · .txt · .json
ἄνθρωπος Ἰουδαῖος οἰκῶν ἐν Σούσοις τῇ πόλει, ἄνθρωπος μέγας, θεραπεύων ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ τοῦ βασιλέως·
a Jewish man living in the city of Susa, a great man, serving at the king's court;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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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.
Text not reproduced: licence not stated — research only, never published verbatim. Consult Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061) at the reference above.
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.
Text not reproduced: licence not stated — research only, never published verbatim. Consult Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061) at the reference above.