Editing Mordecai (section)

=== Genealogy ===
[[File:سنگ نوشته نسب قوم یهود.jpg|right|thumb|The tablet of Mordechai's ancestry in the tomb traditionally ascribed to him and Esther]]
The [[Targum Sheni]] gives his genealogy in more detail, as follows:{{Efn|Textual variants indicated in appendices}} "Mordecai, son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Shemida,{{efn|Shamyadah}} son of Ba'anah, son of Elah, son of Micah, son of [[Mephibosheth]], son of [[Jonathan (Samuel)|Jonathan]], son of Saul, son of [[Kish (Bible)|Kish]], son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of [[Bechorath]], son of Aphiah,{{efn|Aphrach}} son of Shecharim,{{efn|Shacharit}} son of Uzziah, son of Sason,{{efn|Shishak}} son of Michael, son of Eliel, son of Amihud, son of Shephatiah, son of Penuel,{{efn|Petuel}} son of Petah,{{efn|Piton}} son of Melokh, son of Yerubaal,{{efn|Yekhobaal}} son of Yeruham, son of Hananiah, son of Zabdi, son of Elpa'al, son of Shimri, son of Zebadiah, son of Rimoth,{{efn|Merimoth}} son of Khashum,{{efn|Khoshim}} son of Shekhorah, son of Gazza, son of 'Uzza, son of Gera, son of Bela, son of [[Benjamin]], son of [[Jacob]] the firstborn, whose name is called [[Israel_(name)|Israel]]."<ref>An Explanatory Commentary on Esther with Four Appendices consisting of The Second Targum Translated From the Aramaic With Notes, Mithra, The Winged Bulls of Persepolis, And Zoroaster  by Professor Paulus Cassel, D.D., Berlin, Translated by Rev. Aaron Bernstein, B.D., T&T Clark, 38 George Street, Edinburgh, 1888, pp 298-299, retrieved Oct 25, 2017</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon |url=http://cal.huc.edu/showtargum.php?bookname=36&chapter=02&verse=5&Peshitta=1&Sam=1 |access-date=2021-03-01 |website=cal.huc.edu}}</ref> The same genealogy is inscribed on a massive metal tablet in the [[Tomb of Esther and Mordechai]] (pictured). 

This traditional genealogy implicates Kish as the name of an ancient ancestor and not simply Mordecai's great-grandfather, meaning that Esther 2:5—6 was interpreted as ''Mordecai'' being the one who was exiled to Babylon. The chronological inconsistencies of this assumption are detailed above.