Talmai — Addition F 5: The nations are those gathered to destroy the Jews. 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-10.03-05/ Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.10.1-10 GREEK: τὰ δὲ ἔθνη, τὰ ἐπισυναχθέντα ἀπολέσαι τὸ ὄνομα τῶν Ἰουδαίων· ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): and the nations are those gathered together to destroy the name of the Jews; PARALLELS: - [Flagged] Otzar Midrashim, Midrashim on Megilat Esther, Midrash on the Book of Esther 6 (Otzar Midrashim: Midrash on the Book of Esther) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'Many nations gathered in that place' as the dream's hostile party matches the plus's identification of the nations as 'those gathered together to destroy the name of the Jews.' - [Verbatim] Tosefet le-Esther, פתרון החלום (Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'עמים רבים הנאספים הם אשר החזיקו... להשכיח שם מהיהודים' renders Addition F's identification of the gathered nations, not in MT. - [Flagged] Aramaic Targum to Esther 6:1 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. Same clause as above ('kings devised no such design... to wipe us from the face of the earth') matches Addition F's own gloss identifying the nations as those gathered to destroy the Jews. - [Verbatim] Esther Rabbah 8:5 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'לאבד זכרו מעל הארץ' (to destroy its name/memory from the earth) directly matches Addition F's gloss that the nations gathered 'to destroy the name of the Jews' — a specific, non-MT phrase-level correspondence. - [Flagged] Rashi on Megillah 11a:10:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Haman's decree barring anyone from buying a Jew as a slave is the specific coordinated action of the nations against the Jews matching 'gathered together to destroy the name of the Jews.' - [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I 1:10 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I) — conduit: lost intermediary. The circular's stated aim is 'to uproot her memory from the world, so that they have neither memory nor name nor seed' -- matching Addition F's specific clause that 'the nations are those gathered together to destroy the NAME of the Jews,' a shared, distinctive 'destroy the name' detail. - [Flagged] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1056:4 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'ויקומו כל הגוים על גוי קטן לאבד זכרו מן הארץ' shares the specific phrase 'destroy his name/memory,' matching the plus's 'gathered together to destroy the name of the Jews'; not MT material. - [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 9:16:1 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. The witness names the enemies precisely as those who said 'in a few days we will kill you and dash your children to the ground,' the specific counterpart to Addition F's 'nations gathered to destroy the name of the Jews.'