Talmai — Addition E 9: Unable to bear this, he plotted to destroy Mordecai, Esther, and their nation.
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Canonical: https://talmai.wrootpress.com/unit/esth-plus-08.12-09/
Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.8.1a-24a

GREEK: οὐκ ἐνέγκας δὲ τὴν ὑπερηφανίαν ἐπετήδευσεν τῆς ἀρχῆς στερῆσαι ἡμᾶς καὶ τοῦ πνεύματος, τόν τε ἡμέτερον σωτῆρα καὶ διὰ παντὸς εὐεργέτην Μαρδοχαῖον καὶ τὴν ἄμεμπτον τῆς βασιλείας κοινωνὸν Ἐσθὴρ σὺν παντὶ τῷ τούτων ἔθνει πολυπλόκοις μεθόδων παραλογισμοῖς αἰτησάμενος εἰς ἀπωλίαν·
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): but, unable to bear his own arrogance, he undertook to deprive us of our power and even our life, having by intricate and deceptive schemes demanded the destruction of our savior and constant benefactor Mordecai, and of Esther, the blameless partner of our kingdom, together with their whole nation;

PARALLELS:
- [Verbatim] Tosefet le-Esther, צו המלך השני (Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'חשב להמית מרדכי היהודי... ואסתר ריעת המלך עם כל עמה' names both Mordecai and Esther as the plot's target exactly as Addition E does, beyond MT.
- [Flagged] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1058:3 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. At Haman's crown request the king's face changes: 'זהו שראיתי בחלום שהיה מבקש להרגני' — the specific charge that Haman sought the king's own life, matching the plus; not MT material.
- [Motif] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1057:3 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. All night the king sees Haman over him with drawn sword, stripping his purple and crown, seeking to kill him — a specific vision matching the plus's charge that Haman sought to deprive the king of power and life; not MT material.
- [Motif] Rashi on Esther 7:9:1 (Rashi on Esther) — conduit: lost intermediary. Rashi's identification of Mordecai as the one 'who saved the king from the deadly poison' supplies the specific benefactor role the plus assigns him ('our savior and constant benefactor'); the poison detail is not in MT.
- [Verbatim] Targum Sheni on Esther 8:13:1 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. Targum Sheni 8:13 reproduces Addition E clause by clause in the Greek's order (review §3); verbatim under the written standard.
- [Flagged] Targum Sheni on Esther 6:1:7 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. The angel Michael tells the sleepless king outright, 'Haman seeks to kill you and to reign in your place' -- the specific regicide motive Addition E assigns to Haman, absent from MT.
- [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 6:1:6 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. The king's own suspicion, 'Esther and Haman are conspiring to kill me,' is the same specific regicide charge Addition E levels against Haman, voiced here as royal fear.
- [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 6:9:1 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. 'Haman wants to kill me and to reign in my place, as I saw in the vision' is the same specific plot-on-the-king's-life motive as Addition E's charge, unattested in MT.
- [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 7:9:1 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. Harbonah's denunciation -- 'you too, O king, Haman sought to kill and to take the kingdom from you' -- is the same regicide charge Addition E makes, absent from MT's version of Harbonah's speech.
- [Motif] Megillah 15b:21 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. The sleepless king's suspicion that Esther and Haman conspire to kill him matches the plus's specific charge that Haman sought 'to deprive us of our power and even our life.'
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 6:5 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. The king's own dream of Haman standing over him with a drawn sword, seeking to kill him, is treated as truth -- the specific charge that Haman sought to take the king's own power/life, matching Addition E's 'he undertook to deprive us of our power and even our life.'
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 6:12 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Haman is made an actual co-conspirator against the king's own life alongside the two eunuchs -- matching Addition E's rescript, which convicts Haman of plotting against the king's power and life, not only against the Jews.
- [Flagged] Megillah 16a:2 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'Nothing was done for him' names the unrewarded benefactor Haman sought to destroy, matching the plus's 'our savior and constant benefactor Mordecai.'
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Abba Guryon 6:3 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Abba Guryon) — conduit: lost intermediary. MT gives no basis for Haman threatening the king's own life; both here (the king's dream of Haman standing over him with a drawn sword) and in Addition E ('undertook to deprive us of our power and even our life') this specific non-MT charge is independently invented.
- [Flagged] Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 50:7 (Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 49-50) — conduit: oral. The king's dream of Haman raising a sword against him gives narrative form to the plus's specific charge that Haman 'undertook to deprive us of our power and even our life' -- an assassination-plot detail absent from MT.
- [Flagged] Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 50:10 (Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 49-50) — conduit: oral. At the climax the king concludes Haman meant to seize both his wife and his throne, matching the plus's naming of Esther, 'the blameless partner of our kingdom,' as a specific target of the plot alongside Mordecai.
- [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 16a:23:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'One [of the two gallows] was for Esther, for Ahasuerus was angry at what Haman did to her' matches Addition E's grievance that Haman demanded Esther's destruction, 'the blameless partner of our kingdom.'
- [Flagged] Aramaic Targum to Esther 6:1 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. The night-vision angel's warning that Haman wants to kill the king and also kill 'the man who saved you,' i.e. Mordecai, matches the plus's charge that Haman plotted against the king's power and life and demanded the destruction of his savior and benefactor Mordecai -- a regicide plot absent from MT.
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 6:11 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. The king reads the throne-room scene as Haman conspiring against his own life together with Esther ('he has paired with Esther to kill me... will he even force the queen while I am in the house?') -- matching Addition E's charge that Haman sought to deprive the king of power and life, and to destroy Esther along with the nation.
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 6:4 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Gabriel calls the king an ingrate and sends him to repay 'Mordecai' as his benefactor -- matching Addition E's specific epithet for Mordecai, 'our savior and constant benefactor,' a title MT never gives him.
- [Motif] Megillah 16a:17 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Esther's charge that Haman, having had Vashti killed out of jealousy, now seeks the queen's life matches the plus's charge that Haman sought 'to deprive us of our power and even our life.'
- [Motif] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1058:7 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. Esther's stated reason for haste — Haman's sons are commanders worldwide poised to revolt at his letters — matches the plus's charge that Haman moved to deprive the king of his power and his life; not MT material.