Addition A · Mordecai's dream and the eunuchs' plot · Greek before 1:1 · unit 15
Both the king and Mordecai record the incident.
Rahlfs 1:1p · Swete, Esther, prologue · .txt · .json
καὶ ἔγραψεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τοὺς λόγους τούτους εἰς μνημόσυνον, καὶ Μαρδοχαῖος ἔγραψεν περὶ τῶν λόγων τούτων·
and the king wrote these things down for a record, and Mordecai wrote concerning these matters;draft English
What the rabbinic bench shows
1 verbatim · 1 motif · 1 flagged · 14 candidates examined and rejected.
- Medieval retranslation: the Additions re-entered Hebrew from Latin (Sefer Yosippon, c. 953; ben Makhir), so this is not ancient reception
- Lost intermediary: an earlier written aggadic source, no longer extant, stands between
Verbatim
'ונכתב בספר הזכרונות... ויתן לו מתן רב' renders Addition A's doubled record and royal reward, content absent from MT's bare notice.
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Motif — candidate parallels
Unverified at pair level: in a seeded sample of forty motif pairs, 58% failed the study's own test. Read each as a candidate.
'ויש אומרים אליהו ז"ל בא וכתבן' supplies a second, non-royal writer of the memorial alongside the king's scribe — the same doubling the plus makes with 'the king wrote... and Mordecai wrote,' a detail MT lacks.
Text not reproduced: licence not stated — research only, never published verbatim. Consult Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061) at the reference above.
Flagged for further study (1)
PDRE doubles the record exactly as the plus does: the incident is written in the royal archive AND Mordecai's report is separately 'written on a book,' matching Addition A's distinctive double authorship (king writes, Mordecai writes) against MT's single notice.
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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.
ויכתב המלך את הדברים האלה לזכרון ומרדכי כתב על הדברים האלה
ויכתבו הדברים האלה בספר הזכרונות דברי הימים ומרדכי כתב על אדות הדברים האלה