Addition C · The prayers of Mordecai and Esther · Greek after 4:17 · unit 2
God as maker of heaven and earth, Lord of all.
Rahlfs 4:17b (lettering not yet checked against Rahlfs) · Swete, Esther 4.1a–30a · .txt · .json
ὅτι σὺ ἐποίησας τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ πᾶν θαυμαζόμενον ἐν τῇ ὑπʼ οὐρανόν, καὶ κύριος εἶ πάντων, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὃς ἀντιτάξεταί σοι τῷ κυρίῳ·
for you made heaven and earth and every wondrous thing under heaven, and you are Lord of all, and there is none who will set himself against you the Lord.draft English
What the rabbinic bench shows
0 verbatim · 2 motif · 10 candidates examined and rejected.
- Lost intermediary: an earlier written aggadic source, no longer extant, stands between
- Aramaic: carried by a targum; how the targum came by it is open
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.
The sages' warning that destroying Israel would unmake 'חקות שמים וארץ' grounds God's unopposable dominion in his making heaven and earth, matching the plus; not MT material.
Text not reproduced: licence not stated — research only, never published verbatim. Consult Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061) at the reference above.
Mordecai's creation hymn -- suspending the earth, stretching the firmament, making the great sea, commanding sun moon and stars -- is the non-MT creation catalogue matching Addition C's 'you made heaven and earth and every wondrous thing under heaven.'
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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.
כי אתה עשית את השמים ואת הארץ ואת כל נפלאות תחת השמים ואתה אדון לכל ואין אשר יתיצב לפניך יהוה
כי אתה עשית שמים וארץ וכל הנפלאות אשר תחת השמים ואתה אדון על כל ואין מי יתיצב לפניך אדני