Talmai — Addition A 17: Haman, honored by the king, seeks revenge on Mordecai for the eunuchs' downfall. 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-01.01-17/ Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.prologue GREEK: καὶ ἦν Ἀμὰν Ἀμαδάθου Βουγαῖος ἔνδοξος ἐνώπιον τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ ἐζήτησεν κακοποιῆσαι τὸν Μαρδοχαῖον καὶ τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ τῶν δύο εὐνούχων τοῦ βασιλέως. ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): Now Haman son of Hammedatha the Bougaean was honored before the king, and he sought to harm Mordecai and his people on account of the king's two eunuchs. PARALLELS: - [Verbatim] Tosefet le-Esther, בגתן ותרש (Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'והמן האגגי היה נשא... להשטין למרדכי ולעמו בעבור אלו שני הסריסים' reproduces Addition A's distinctive etiology of Haman's enmity from the eunuch affair, absent from MT. - [Flagged] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1059:1 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. Harbonah charges that Haman 'היה עם בגתן ותרש באותה עצה' and hated Mordecai from the moment he exposed them — the plus's distinctive claim that Haman's enmity toward Mordecai stemmed specifically from the two eunuchs; not MT material. - [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 6:12 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Harbonah reveals that Haman was party to the Bigthan-and-Teresh eunuch plot and had already prepared the gallows the moment Mordecai exposed it -- the exact otherwise-unattested link Addition A supplies, that Haman sought Mordecai's harm specifically 'on account of the king's two eunuchs.' - [Flagged] Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 50:7 (Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 49-50) — conduit: oral. PDRE ties Haman's sons, as the king's scribes, directly to concealing the very record of Mordecai's exposure of the eunuchs -- a specific narrative link between Haman's household and the eunuch affair matching Addition A's stated cause of Haman's enmity. - [Flagged] Aramaic Targum to Esther 2:21 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. The targum causally ties the eunuchs' plot to Mordecai's rise ('the queen wants to install Mordecai'), the same rare move the plus makes in linking the eunuchs' downfall to Haman's enmity toward Mordecai -- a connection MT does not draw at all. - [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Abba Guryon 6:2 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Abba Guryon) — conduit: lost intermediary. MT gives no reason for Haman's enmity toward Mordecai; here Haman's son Shimshai has a specific interest in suppressing the record of the eunuchs' plot, matching Addition A's non-MT causal claim that Haman sought to harm Mordecai 'on account of' the two eunuchs.