Addition A · Mordecai's dream and the eunuchs' plot · Greek before 1:1 · unit 16
The king appoints Mordecai to court service and rewards him.
Rahlfs 1:1q · Swete, Esther, prologue · .txt · .json
καὶ ἐπέταξεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Μαρδοχαίῳ θεραπεύειν ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ δόματα περὶ τούτων.
and the king appointed Mordecai to serve at the court, and gave him gifts for this.draft English
What the rabbinic bench shows
1 verbatim · 2 motif · 2 flagged · 5 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
- Oral: shared narrative tradition, thematic rather than literary contact
- Lost intermediary: an earlier written aggadic source, no longer extant, stands between
Verbatim
'ולמרדכי צוה המלך לעמוד בבית מלכותו ויתן לו מתן רב' directly renders Addition A's appointment to court service and gift, not in MT.
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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.
Mordecai becoming an officer between the two census counts is the same court appointment Addition A reports.
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'העביר שני קלסנטרין ומושיב הברברי הזה' states from the enemies' side the same replacement-appointment of Mordecai to the eunuchs' post that the plus describes; not MT material.
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Flagged for further study (2)
The king removes Bigthan and Teresh and installs Mordecai in their place as court guard — a specific replacement-appointment matching the plus; MT only records that Mordecai's report was written down, not that he was appointed to their post.
Text not reproduced: licence not stated — research only, never published verbatim. Consult Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061) at the reference above.
'He abandoned Torah and entered office' matches the same specific event -- Mordecai's court appointment -- Addition A reports as the king's reward.
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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.
ויצו המלך את מרדכי לשרת בחצר ויתן לו מתנות על אלה
ויפקד המלך על מרדכי לשרת בחצר המלך ויתן לו משאת בעבור זאת