Talmai — Addition D 3: She blushes with beauty, her face joyful though her heart is gripped by fear.
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Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.4.1b-11b

GREEK: καὶ αὐτὴ ἐρυθριῶσα ἀκμῇ κάλλους αὐτῆς, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῆς ἱλαρὸν ὡς προσφιλές, ἡ δὲ καρδία αὐτῆς ἀπεστενωμένη ἀπὸ τοῦ φόβου.
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): and she herself, blushing in the height of her beauty, her face cheerful, as one beloved, though her heart was constricted with fear.

PARALLELS:
- [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 13a:12:2 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'She was sallow' -- denying Esther natural beauty -- sets up the specific divinely supplied radiance Addition D describes at this same moment.
- [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 13a:12:3 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'A thread of grace was drawn over her ... she appeared beautiful to the nations and to Ahasuerus' is Addition D's account of her God-given radiance before the king.
- [Flagged] Targum Sheni on Esther 5:1:4 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. 'She said in her heart: perhaps I shall go in before the king and he will not receive me' is the specific inward dread matching Addition D's outwardly composed queen whose heart was constricted with fear.
- [Flagged] Rashi on Megillah 15a:10:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'The cavity of her body dissolved' is the physical fear-response matching Addition D's 'her heart was constricted with fear' at this same scene.
- [Flagged] Rashi on Megillah 13a:20:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'Heaven contrived to make her beloved to her husband' matches Addition D's 'as one beloved' at the same moment she stands before the king.
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 2:17 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Esther is described as more beautiful than Vashti's own portrait while simultaneously in continual dread of being killed -- matching Addition D's precise combination of 'blushing in the height of her beauty' with 'her heart constricted with fear.'
- [Verbatim] Esther Rabbah 9:1 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: medieval retranslation. cheerful face (ותצהיל פניה) and the fear hidden in her heart (ותכס הדאגה אשר בלבה), in order.