Talmai — Addition E 12: The king voids Haman's letters; Haman has already been crucified with his household.
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Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.8.1a-24a

GREEK: καλῶς οὖν ποιήσετε μὴ προσχρησάμενοι τοῖς ὑπὸ Ἀμὰν Ἀμαδάθου ἀποσταλεῖσι γράμμασιν, διὰ τὸ αὐτὸν τὸν ταῦτα ἐξεργασάμενον πρὸς ταῖς Σούσων πύλαις ἐσταυρῶσθαι σὺν τῇ πανοικίᾳ, τὴν καταξίαν τοῦ τὰ πάντα ἐπικρατοῦντος θεοῦ διὰ τάχους ἀποδόντος αὐτῷ κρίσιν·
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): You will therefore do well not to act on the letters sent by Haman son of Hammedatha, since he who devised these things has been crucified at the gates of Susa together with his whole household, God who rules over all things having swiftly rendered him the judgment he deserved;

PARALLELS:
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 6:22 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. The witness extends Haman's ruin explicitly to his household (friends and Zeresh his wife, 'ke-gelalo la-netzach'), matching the plus's 'crucified... together with his whole household' -- an extension beyond MT, which names only the ten sons.
- [Flagged] Otzar Midrashim, Midrashim on Megilat Esther, Drash on Purim 9 (Otzar Midrashim: Drash on Purim) — conduit: lost intermediary. God breaks the seal, tears the letter, frustrates Haman's plan, and Haman is hanged -- matching the counter-edict's annulment of Haman's letters and the swift judgment rendered on him, a supernatural undoing of the decree MT does not narrate this way.
- [Verbatim] Tosefet le-Esther, צו המלך השני (Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'הנה הוא תלוי על העץ אל עיר שושן' renders Addition E's distinctive detail that Haman was already executed at the gates of Susa, a location MT does not give.
- [Flagged] Otzar Midrashim, Midrashim on Megilat Esther, Midrash on the Book of Esther 8 (Otzar Midrashim: Midrash on the Book of Esther) — conduit: lost intermediary. God takes and tears the letters, annulling the decree, while Haman is destroyed on his own gallows and his household falls (his daughter dies) -- matching the counter-edict's revocation of Haman's letters and judgment on him 'together with his whole household.'
- [Flagged] Rashi on Megillah 16b:10:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Haman's ten sons dying together ('their souls fell as one') matches Addition E's notice that he was crucified 'together with his whole household.'
- [Motif] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1059:2 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. Haman and his ten sons are hanged together on one measured fifty-cubit beam, a single combined execution — matching the plus's 'crucified... together with his whole household' more specifically than MT's separated battle-then-hanging sequence in chapter 9.
- [Motif] Aramaic Targum to Esther 9:14 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. The targum's gibbet diagram crucifies Haman together with his ten sons on one beam, matching the plus's claim that he was destroyed 'together with his whole household,' against MT's separate hanging of the sons after battle.
- [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.
- [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 7:9:2 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. Mordecai takes Haman from the king's gate to crucify him, a specific location matching Addition E's notice of the crucifixion at the gates of Susa.
- [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 9:14:1 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. Haman and all ten sons are crucified together, tier by tier, on one fifty-cubit gallows -- the specific whole-household execution matching Addition E's 'crucified together with his whole household.'
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I 1:11 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I) — conduit: lost intermediary. God specifically 'breaks the seals and tears up Haman's written letters, annulling the decree' -- the same concrete act of voiding Haman's letters that Addition E's royal rescript performs, a specific narrative action MT does not supply (MT merely issues a counter-decree, without describing the physical undoing of Haman's letters).
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 4:2 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. The midrash describes Haman's death with the specific vocabulary of crucifixion (nitzlav), 'tomorrow Haman is crucified,' matching the Greek's distinctive esaurōsthai for Haman's end rather than simple hanging (talah), which MT uses throughout.
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 5:4 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Haman specifically chooses crucifixion (tzelivah), reasoning God rescues from fire, sword, and sea but not from the cross -- matching the Greek's distinctive vocabulary of crucifixion (estaurōsthai) for Haman's own end, which MT nowhere uses (MT has only talah, hanging).
- [Motif] Megillah 16a:11 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Haman's daughter's death alongside his humiliation supports the plus's report that Haman's household was destroyed together with him.
- [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 16b:10:2 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'A gallows -- in one row, each below the other' describes the household hanged together, matching Addition E's 'crucified ... together with his whole household.'
- [Flagged] Esther Rabbah 7:22 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: lost intermediary. 'ותלו אותו ואת בניו על העץ' (they hanged him and his sons on the tree, as one act) diverges from MT's own separated chronology (Haman hanged in ch.7, sons slain/hanged later in ch.9) and instead matches Addition E's compressed claim that Haman 'has been crucified...together with his whole household.'
- [Flagged] Esther Rabbah 7:11 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: lost intermediary. ER consistently renders Haman's punishment with צלב (crucify) rather than MT's own תלה (hang) — 'גורלך עולה להצלב' — matching Addition E's ἐσταύρωται (has been crucified), a shared departure from MT's own vocabulary reflecting a later, Greco-Roman-inflected reading of the penalty.
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 5:6 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. A bat kol declares 'tomorrow that man will be crucified' (nitzlav), using specifically crucifixion vocabulary for Haman's end rather than MT's simple hanging (talah) -- the same distinctive lexical choice as the Greek's estaurōsthai.
- [Flagged] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1057:2 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. 'שבר את החותמות וקרע את האגרת והפר עצתו' — physically annulling Haman's sealed letters — matches the very device of Addition E's second letter, 'do not act on the letters sent by Haman'; MT's solution is a second decree, not annulment of the first.
- [Motif] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1059:8 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. 'כולהו עשרה בחד זקיפא אזדקיפו' — all ten sons hanged together on a single stake — matches the plus's combined execution of Haman 'together with his whole household' more specifically than MT's separated battle-then-hanging sequence.