Talmai — Addition D 6: God turns the king's anger to gentleness; he catches her and reassures her, 'you shall not die.'
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Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.4.1b-11b

GREEK: καὶ μετέβαλεν ὁ θεὸς τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ βασιλέως εἰς πραΰτητα, καὶ ἀγωνιάσας ἀνεπήδησεν ἀπὸ τοῦ θρόνου αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀνέλαβεν αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τὰς ἀγκάλας αὐτοῦ μέχρις οὗ κατέστη, καὶ παρεκάλει αὐτὴν λόγοις εἰρηνικοῖς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ· Τί ἐστιν, Ἐσθήρ; ἐγὼ ὁ ἀδελφός σου· θάρσει, οὐ μὴ ἀποθάνῃς, ὅτι κοινὸν τὸ πρόσταγμα ἡμῶν ἐστίν· πρόσελθε.
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): But God changed the king's spirit to gentleness; and, alarmed, he sprang up from his throne, and took her up in his arms until she recovered, and he comforted her with peaceable words and said to her: What is it, Esther? I am your brother; take courage, you shall not die, for our order applies only to commoners. Come near.

PARALLELS:
- [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 16b:13:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'An angel came' and turned the king's opening anger into 'what is your request' is the specific wrath-to-gentleness transformation Addition D attributes to God.
- [Flagged] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1056:15 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. Angels force the king's face toward her and his eyes are opened so he extends the sceptre — the same divine reversal the plus ascribes to God changing the king's spirit to gentleness; absent from MT.
- [Motif] Megillah 15b:9 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. The three-angel intervention causing a favorable audience matches the plus's divine intervention ('God changed the king's spirit to gentleness') at the same scene. One of the parallels the scholarly literature already records (control P06).
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I 1:12 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I) — conduit: lost intermediary. Michael directly manipulates Ahasuerus through the night (beating him, driving off sleep) to save the Jews -- the same 'heavenly power directly changing the king's inner state' mechanism as Addition D's 'God changed the king's spirit to gentleness.'
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 5:1 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Ministering angels hold the king's face and light his blinded eyes, and Michael draws Esther's hand to the scepter, after which the king tells her he sees she risked death -- the same divine-intervention-plus-reassurance sequence as Addition D's 'God changed the king's spirit to gentleness... take courage, you shall not die.'
- [Motif] Esther Rabbah 3:15 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: oral. God directing 'the angel appointed over the flame/wrath' regarding the king's anger shares the specific premise that God personally manages Ahasuerus's emotional states — the same non-MT theological conceit as Addition D's 'God changed the king's spirit to gentleness,' even though ER's episode concerns a different moment (Vashti/Haman's fall) in that same wrath-thread.
- [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 drew a thread of grace over her,' turning the king's disposition, matches the plus's 'God changed the king's spirit to gentleness.'
- [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 drew a thread of grace over her' again matches the plus's God turning the king's spirit to gentleness.
- [Flagged] Aramaic Targum to Esther 5:1 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. Esther's prayer specifically asks 'that he not kill me,' directly answered by the plus's royal reassurance 'you shall not die' -- petition and fulfillment matched across the two texts.
- [Verbatim] Esther Rabbah 9:1 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: medieval retranslation. the king springs up in alarm from his throne (ויקם המלך בבהלה מכסאו = ἀγωνιάσας ἀνεπήδησεν ἀπὸ τοῦ θρόνου), embraces her, 'this law is not laid on you'. Control P11.