Addition A · Mordecai's dream and the eunuchs' plot · Greek before 1:1 · unit 4
The dream begins: cosmic tumult.
Rahlfs 1:1d · Swete, Esther, prologue · .txt · .json
καὶ τοῦτο αὐτοῦ τὸ ἐνύπνιον· καὶ ἰδοὺ φωναὶ καὶ θόρυβος, βρονταὶ καὶ σεισμός, τάραχος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.
And this was his dream: behold, voices and tumult, thunders and earthquake, confusion upon the earth.draft English
What the rabbinic bench shows
2 verbatim · 0 motif · 8 candidates examined and rejected. Every parallel here comes through a medieval retranslation of the Additions, not ancient reception.
- Medieval retranslation: the Additions re-entered Hebrew from Latin (Sefer Yosippon, c. 953; ben Makhir), so this is not ancient reception
Verbatim
'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.
Text not reproduced: licence not stated — research only, never published verbatim. Consult Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061) at the reference above.
'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.
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Hebrew retroversions
Machine-assisted reconstructions of a Hebrew the Greek might render, made under Tov's principles and used only as search queries. They are hypotheses, not evidence. 2 further candidate(s) seeded from the CATSS database are withheld under its licence.
וזה חלומו והנה קולות ושאון רעם ורעש ומהומה רבה בארץ