F:11 [11:1] Anno quarto regnantibus Ptolemaeo, et Cleopatra,
attulerunt Dosithaeus, qui se Sacerdotem, et Levitici generis ferebat,
et Ptolemaeus filius eius hanc epistolam phurim, quam dixerunt
interpretatum esse Lysimachum Ptolemaei filium in Ierusalem.
About This Electronic Edition:
The editor has assembled this etext to approximate the arrangement of
the Greek Septuagint version of Esther. The Vulgate contains sections
both from the Hebrew and Greek versions, but the verses exclusive to
the Greek were transplanted to the end. These verses are specific to
different events in the story of Esther. Placed out of the context of
the body of book, as in the Vulgate, these verses can make for
difficult reading. The guide for this arrangement of the text is "The
New American Bible". [NAB] Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nashville 1987.
The chaper:verse numbers follow this edition with a few exceptions.
Verse 15:1 is a restatement of verse 4:8b and may have been added to
the Vulgate to put the following verses in context; it is not in the
NAB. After much thought the editor has decided to label it verse
B:7.5 even though it is an awkward designation. Verse 4:17 is left
unnumbered in the NAB; in this text it is verse C:0. In a few
instances verses were divided into "a" and "b" sections. None of verses
included in the source text has been removed from this edition. The
editor has removed the footnotes & appendices and modified the section
headers. A few new section headers have been added, based on the text
of the source's marginal notes.