Talmai — Addition C 19: She has not eaten at Haman's table nor honored the king's feast.
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Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.4.1a-30a

GREEK: καὶ οὐκ ἔφαγεν ἡ δούλη σου τράπεζαν Ἁμάν, καὶ οὐκ ἐδόξασα συμπόσιον βασιλέως, οὐδὲ ἔπιον οἶνον σπονδῶν·
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): And your servant has not eaten at the table of Haman, nor have I honored the king's banquet, nor drunk the wine of libations;

PARALLELS:
- [Flagged] Esther Rabbah 7:13 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: lost intermediary. 'לא תלכו לאכול בסעודתו של אחשורוש' (Mordecai's warning not to attend the king's feast) shares the specific, non-MT theme of banquet-abstention as a piety marker with Addition C's 'I have not eaten at Haman's table nor honored the king's banquet.'
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Abba Guryon 4:1 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Abba Guryon) — conduit: lost intermediary. Mordecai's non-MT proclamation that Israel should not attend the king's banquet ('since it is voluntary, do not go') makes abstention the pious act -- exactly what Addition C has Esther plead she has done.
- [Flagged] Rashi on Megillah 13a:15:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Esther secretly keeping the Sabbath via her seven maids is a specific act of court piety matching Addition C's insistence on observance at court.
- [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 13a:16:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Whether Esther ate forbidden food in the palace is exactly the scandal Addition C forecloses by having her deny eating at Haman's table or the king's feast.
- [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 13a:17:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Daniel's steward removing the king's food and wine is applied here as the specific model for Esther's own abstention, matching 'nor drunk the wine of libations.'
- [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 15b:14:2 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Esther's stated revulsion at 'drawing near Israel's enemy ... flatter this wicked man' is the same disgust at proximity to Haman Addition C voices.
- [Motif] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1053:12 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. Esther is fed Jewish food/seeds rather than the king's fare — a specific dietary abstention matching the plus's claim she never honored the king's banquet; MT says nothing of her diet.
- [Motif] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1053:15 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. 'לא טעמה כלום אלא משלה ולא משלחנו של מלך' closely matches the plus's 'has not eaten at the table... nor honored the king's banquet'; not MT material.
- [Motif] Aramaic Targum to Esther 2:20 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. Targum's 'the cooked food and wine of foreign nations she did not taste' is a specific dietary detail matching Esther's claim not to have eaten at Haman's table or drunk libation wine; not in MT.
- [Flagged] Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 50:3 (Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 49-50) — conduit: oral. PDRE gives the specific reason Mordecai sat at the gate -- to guard against Esther's defilement by impure food -- corresponding to the plus's distinctive claim that Esther never ate at Haman's table nor drank the libation wine, a dietary detail MT does not supply.
- [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 2:9:1 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. Esther secretly passes her palace rations to gentile maids 'because Esther did not taste the food of the king's house' -- the concrete equivalent of Addition C's claim that she has not eaten at Haman's table or honored the king's banquet.
- [Motif] Megillah 13a:15 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Esther secretly maintaining Jewish dietary practice at the Persian court is the specific extra-MT detail shared with the plus's claim she avoided forbidden food.
- [Motif] Megillah 13a:17 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. R. Yohanan's tradition that Esther ate only seeds/pulse (citing Daniel) is the same court-food-avoidance motif the plus asserts in her own voice.
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 1:7 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. When Israel saw the Temple vessels in use at the feast, they refused to recline and made a separate table -- the same specific abstention-from-the-royal-feast motif as Esther's claim in Addition C.
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 1:13 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. The women likewise refuse to eat at Vashti's banquet once they see the Temple vessels in use -- the same specific refusal-of-the-gentile-feast motif as Addition C's 'nor have I honored the king's banquet.'
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 2:4 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Mordecai is called 'Yehudi' specifically because, unlike everyone else, he alone did not eat at Ahasuerus's banquet -- the same specific abstention-from-the-royal-table motif Addition C makes Esther's boast.
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 2:12 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Esther tastes nothing from the king's table, only her own food, explicitly compared to Hananiah/Mishael/Azariah refusing Nebuchadnezzar's rations -- matching Addition C's 'your servant has not eaten at the table of Haman... nor drunk the wine of libations.'
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 4:12 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. 'Ha-nimtzaim' is read as those who ate at Ahasuerus's banquet, for whom the fast is imposed as expiation -- the same specific concern with participation in the royal table that Addition C's Esther disclaims.
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 6:19 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. All the Jews ate gentile dishes at Ahasuerus's feast and Mordecai alone abstained -- the same specific abstention-from-the-royal-banquet motif as Addition C's 'nor have I honored the king's banquet, nor drunk the wine of libations.'
- [Motif] Megillah 12a:9 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'Because they derived benefit from that wicked man's banquet' names precisely the sin the plus's Esther distances herself from: 'nor have I honored the king's banquet.'
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Abba Guryon 1:5 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Abba Guryon) — conduit: lost intermediary. The Jews present refuse to recline with the Temple vessels at the banquet and are given a separate table -- the same concrete, non-MT refusal of the king's table that Addition C turns into Esther's plea.
- [Motif] Megillah 12a:16 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. The heavenly voice's warning that the banquet reuses the Temple vessels for which an earlier generation perished directly grounds the plus's denial that Esther 'drunk the wine of libations' or 'honored the king's banquet.'