Talmai — Addition A 5: Two great dragons come forward, ready to fight. Licence: English and apparatus CC BY 4.0 (Talmai, Wroot Press); Greek from Swete, CC BY-SA. https://talmai.wrootpress.com/rights/ Canonical: https://talmai.wrootpress.com/unit/esth-plus-01.01-05/ Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.prologue GREEK: καὶ ἰδοὺ δύο δράκοντες μεγάλοι ἕτοιμοι προῆλθον ἀμφότεροι παλαίειν· καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτῶν φωνὴ μεγάλη, ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): And behold, two great dragons came forward, both ready to fight, and their voice became great, PARALLELS: - [Flagged] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1056:4 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. '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. - [Verbatim] Esther Rabbah 8:5 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: medieval retranslation. '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. - [Flagged] Otzar Midrashim, Midrashim on Megilat Esther, Midrash on the Book of Esther 6 (Otzar Midrashim: Midrash on the Book of Esther) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 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). - [Flagged] Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 49:2 (Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 49-50) — conduit: oral. 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. - [Motif] Megillah 12a:18 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 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.'