Talmai — Addition D 5: The king's face burns with anger at the sight of her; she collapses in a faint.
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Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.4.1b-11b

GREEK: καὶ ἄρας τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ πεπυρωμένον δόξῃ ἐν ἀκμῇ θυμοῦ ἔβλεψεν· καὶ ἔπεσεν ἡ βασίλισσα καὶ μετέβαλεν τὸ χρῶμα αὐτῆς ἐν ἐκλύσει, καὶ κατεπέκυψεν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν τῆς ἅβρας τῆς προπορευομένης.
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): And lifting his face, inflamed with glory, he looked upon her in the height of anger; and the queen collapsed and changed color in a faint, and sank down upon the head of the maid who went before her.

PARALLELS:
- [Flagged] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1056:15 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. The king turns his face away in fury and Esther, lacking strength, collapses — matching the plus's king inflamed with anger and the queen fainting; this whole scene is absent from MT 5:2.
- [Flagged] Aramaic Targum to Esther 5:2 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. The king seeing her 'standing faint, her two eyes streaming tears' is the specific fainting scene the plus narrates as her collapse and change of color -- a scene absent from MT altogether.
- [Motif] Megillah 15b:9 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. The angel supporting her sinking neck matches the plus's queen who 'collapsed... and sank down' in a faint. One of the parallels the scholarly literature already records (control P06).
- [Flagged] Otzar Midrashim, Midrashim on Megilat Esther, Midrash on the Book of Esther 7 (Otzar Midrashim: Midrash on the Book of Esther) — conduit: lost intermediary. 'One raised her neck' presupposes Esther's collapse before the enthroned king, matching the plus's 'the queen collapsed... and sank down' -- a fainting MT never mentions.
- [Motif] Otzar Midrashim, Midrashim on Megilat Esther, Midrash on the Megillah (of Esther) 7 (Otzar Midrashim: Midrash on the Megillah (of Esther)) — conduit: oral. 'One raised her neck' again presupposes the collapse before the king that the plus narrates.
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 5:1 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. The king turns his face away and cries out, blinded, while Esther has no strength to reach the scepter -- the same specific scene of the king's terrifying reaction and the queen's physical incapacity that Addition D stages as his burning gaze and her collapsing faint.
- [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 5:2:1 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. 'Haman the king's executioner sought to kill Esther' before the scepter is extended is a specific non-MT mortal-danger beat inserted at the same narrative seam as Addition D's wrathful royal glance and Esther's collapse.
- [Flagged] Rashi on Megillah 15a:10:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'The cavity of her body dissolved' is the specific physical collapse matching Addition D's scene of the queen fainting and sinking onto her maid.
- [Verbatim] Esther Rabbah 9:1 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: medieval retranslation. his eyes blazing with anger; she faints (ותפג רוחה) and lays her head on the maid supporting her.