Additions to Esther
c. 2nd–1st century BC · Apocrypha / Deuterocanonical Books
About this text
Six additional passages that add explicit references to God (absent from the Hebrew Esther), prayers by Mordecai and Esther, and royal decrees.
Significance
The Greek version "solves" the curious absence of God's name in the Hebrew book of Esther.
Key excerpts
Excerpts forthcoming. The full text is available in the public-domain library.
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This text is one of 10 in the Apocrypha / Deuterocanonical Books category, and one of 62 across the entire library.