Talmai — Addition F 4: The two dragons are Mordecai and Haman. Licence: English and apparatus CC BY 4.0 (Talmai, Wroot Press); Greek from Swete, CC BY-SA. https://talmai.wrootpress.com/rights/ Canonical: https://talmai.wrootpress.com/unit/esth-plus-10.03-04/ Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.10.1-10 GREEK: οἱ δὲ δύο δράκοντες, ἐγώ εἰμι καὶ Ἁμάν· ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): And the two dragons are I and Haman; PARALLELS: - [Motif] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1048:9 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. 'לעשות כרצון מרדכי והמן... לרומם אחד ולצלוב אחד' names Mordecai and Haman as the two irreconcilable figures resolved only by raising one and hanging the other — the specific identification Addition F makes of the two dragons; not MT material. - [Verbatim] Tosefet le-Esther, פתרון החלום (Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'והשני אריות אני והמן' renders Addition F's identification of the two combatants as Mordecai and Haman (here lions rather than dragons), absent from MT. - [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 1:1 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. The witness explicitly pairs Mordecai and Haman as opposed principals sent down as rival envoys (one to build the Temple, one to stop it) -- matching Addition F's identification of the two dragons as specifically Mordecai and Haman as persons, not empires. - [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 12a:18:2 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Mordecai and Haman set side by side as the banquet's two stewards of drink is the same matched-pair framing Addition F gives the two dragons, 'I and Haman.' - [Flagged] Megillah 13a:1 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Mordecai and Haman set as a matched antagonistic pair via mirrored genealogies (Shimei/Agag) is the same structural pairing as the plus's 'the two dragons are I and Haman.' - [Flagged] Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 49:2 (Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 49-50) — conduit: oral. PDRE pairs one champion from Agag's seed against one from Saul's seed by name (Haman/Mordecai) under divine foresight -- the nearest rabbinic analogue to Addition F's identification of the two combatants as Mordecai and Haman. - [Flagged] Aramaic Targum to Esther 3:6 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. The targum frames Mordecai and Haman as the hereditary heirs of Jacob and Esau, matching Addition F's own explicit identification of the two dragons as Mordecai and Haman. - [Motif] Megillah 12a:18 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Rava's pairing of 'a Jewish man' (Mordecai) against 'a man, adversary and enemy' (Haman) is the same antagonistic-pair framing as the plus's explicit identification, 'the two dragons are I and Haman.'