RT Article
T1 The Samuel intertexts in the versions of Esther
JF Journal of septuagint and cognate studies
VO 53
SP 87
OP 100
A1 Thambyrajah, Jonathan
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1751314448
AB One of the prominent features of the Masoretic version of Esther is the connection between its protagonists (Esther, Mordecai, and Haman) with the narratives of Samuel. This feature, while typical of the Masoretic Text, is much less prominent, or even absent, in most early translations of Esther. This paper studies the intertext from the perspective of textual criticism and concludes that some version of the intertext was original to the Greek translations as well as the Hebrew. However, the instability of this intertext in the textual witnesses is evidence of the variety of early interpretations of the intertext.
DO 10.2143/JSCS.53.0.3289026