{ "schema_version": 1, "reviewed": "2026-11-09", "scope": "Three pilot document biographies. Claims, dates and permissions are separately sourced; this is not a complete history or a global translation census.", "sources": { "penn": { "id": "penn", "title": "Penn Museum · CBS10673", "url": "https://collections.penn.museum/collections/object/97591", "kind": "Custodian catalogue", "locator": "Details, description, credit line and identifiers", "scope": "Object identity, join, script-based approximate date and acquisition credit; not an excavation diary.", "independence_group": "penn", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "etcsl": { "id": "etcsl", "title": "ETCSL · The Flood story, c.1.7.4", "url": "https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr174.htm", "kind": "Composite translation", "locator": "Composition 1.7.4", "scope": "A work-level English reading route; individual signs and restorations still require witness collation.", "independence_group": "etcsl", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "penn-request": { "id": "penn-request", "title": "Babylon · Penn correspondence", "url": "https://learn.babylonencyclopedia.com/resources/institution-access-desk/#penn-20261105", "kind": "Project correspondence summary", "locator": "Penn inquiry record", "scope": "A request documents a question, not an institutional answer.", "independence_group": "project-outreach", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "loc-enoch": { "id": "loc-enoch", "title": "Library of Congress · 4Q201 exhibition caption", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/scr3.html", "kind": "Historical institutional exhibition", "locator": "The Enoch Scroll · 1993 exhibition", "scope": "Reported copy range and edition reference; retained as a dated assessment, not declared current consensus.", "independence_group": "loc-1993-enoch", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "loc-translation": { "id": "loc-translation", "title": "Library of Congress · Enoch translation excerpt", "url": "https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/trans6.html", "kind": "Selected translation", "locator": "Enᵃ I ii 12–14 and I iii 13–16; attribution at foot", "scope": "Milik transcription amended by Greenfield; Greenfield translation. Selected excerpt, not whole surviving manuscript.", "independence_group": "loc-1993-enoch", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "iaa": { "id": "iaa", "title": "Israel Antiquities Authority · 4Q201 record", "url": "https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/manuscript/4Q201-1?locale=en_US", "kind": "Custodian catalogue route", "locator": "Manuscript 4Q201", "scope": "Stable witness route from the existing register. Full image-to-edition collation has not been completed.", "independence_group": "iaa", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "dating2025": { "id": "dating2025", "title": "Popović et al. · manuscript dating study (2025)", "url": "https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323185", "kind": "Primary research article", "locator": "Section 3, Fig. 1 and supporting sample tables", "scope": "Primary study published 4 June 2025. Its supporting sample, calibration and selection records are transcribed below. The handwriting model uses radiocarbon training data and is not an independent replication of a training-sample date.", "independence_group": "popovic2025-radiocarbon-and-model", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "qumran-context": { "id": "qumran-context", "title": "USC · Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls", "url": "https://dornsife.usc.edu/wsrp/discovering-the-dead-sea-scrolls/", "kind": "University research overview", "locator": "Discussion of discovery and authorship", "scope": "Collection context; does not identify the individual author, scribe or precise find history of 4Q201.", "independence_group": "qumran-context", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "catalogue": { "id": "catalogue", "title": "Hopwood, ed. · Mingana Catalogue IV, revised edition (1985)", "url": "https://calmview.bham.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=XMingana", "kind": "Historical catalogue", "locator": "Catalogue 1902 (560), printed p. 353; introduction", "scope": "Selected description consulted in a privately supplied copy. Public link is the collection and catalogue-request route; PDFs are not redistributed.", "independence_group": "catalogue", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "ismi-codex": { "id": "ismi-codex", "title": "ISMI · Islamic Arabic 560", "url": "https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/codex/198991", "kind": "Scientific manuscript catalogue", "locator": "Codex 198991; witnesses 99404 and 110393", "scope": "One codex with separately identified base work and supplement. Bibliographic dependence on older catalogues requires checking.", "independence_group": "ismi-catalogue-tradition", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "ismi-base": { "id": "ismi-base", "title": "ISMI · Kitab al-alah al-shamilah", "url": "https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/text/106303", "kind": "Scientific manuscript catalogue", "locator": "Work 106303", "scope": "Four listed comparison witnesses; no independent photographic collation by Babylon.", "independence_group": "ismi-catalogue-tradition", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "ismi-supplement": { "id": "ismi-supplement", "title": "ISMI · Hibatallah supplement", "url": "https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/text/99184", "kind": "Scientific manuscript catalogue", "locator": "Work 99184", "scope": "Separate work and named attributed author; one witness listed on this record.", "independence_group": "ismi-catalogue-tradition", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "hogendijk": { "id": "hogendijk", "title": "Jan P. Hogendijk · al-Khujandi bibliography", "url": "https://www.jphogendijk.nl/khujandi.html", "kind": "Specialist research guide", "locator": "Extant works, item 1; biographical introduction", "scope": "Reports unpublished edition work and warns that exact birth/death dates are unknown. Current edition status requires confirmation.", "independence_group": "hogendijk", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "imaging": { "id": "imaging", "title": "Cadbury · imaging and publication conditions", "url": "https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/cadbury/imaging-services", "kind": "Public institutional policy", "locator": "Study/publication forms, imaging charges, cancellation conditions", "scope": "Study copying and public sharing are separate requests. Any order requires a separately approved exact scope and cost.", "independence_group": "imaging", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "oxford-request": { "id": "oxford-request", "title": "Babylon · Huntington 566 inquiry", "url": "https://learn.babylonencyclopedia.com/resources/institution-access-desk/#oxf-huntington-20261106", "kind": "Project correspondence summary", "locator": "Bodleian inquiry, sent 6 November 2026", "scope": "Automatic acknowledgement received; no substantive answer recorded.", "independence_group": "project-outreach", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "giants-publisher": { "id": "giants-publisher", "title": "Mohr Siebeck · The Book of Giants from Qumran", "url": "https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/the-book-of-giants-from-qumran-9783161587887/", "kind": "Publisher catalogue", "locator": "ISBN 9783161587887", "scope": "Publisher identifies an unrevised 2020 eBook of the 1997 work. A product listing is not a licence to redistribute.", "independence_group": "giants-publisher", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "giants-lmu": { "id": "giants-lmu", "title": "Open Access LMU · Stuckenbruck bibliographic record", "url": "https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30970/", "kind": "University repository metadata", "locator": "Item 30970", "scope": "Record explicitly reports no full text available from this repository. Metadata presence does not establish open full-text access.", "independence_group": "giants-lmu", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "routledge": { "id": "routledge", "title": "Routledge · MUL.APIN", "url": "https://www.routledge.com/The-Babylonian-Astronomical-Compendium-MULAPIN/Hunger-Steele/p/book/9780367666187", "kind": "Publisher catalogue route", "locator": "Hunger and Steele, 2019", "scope": "Source link retained; automated page retrieval failed during this review. Product price not verified.", "independence_group": "routledge", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "cambridge-a": { "id": "cambridge-a", "title": "Cambridge Digital Library · T-S 10K6", "url": "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-00010-K-00006/1", "kind": "Digital catalogue and image route", "locator": "T-S 10K6", "scope": "Image/metadata route referred by Cambridge. Reuse conditions must be checked at the record, not inferred from visibility.", "independence_group": "cambridge-a", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "cambridge-b": { "id": "cambridge-b", "title": "Cambridge Digital Library · T-S 16.311", "url": "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-00016-00311/1", "kind": "Digital catalogue and image route", "locator": "T-S 16.311", "scope": "Second separately identified Genizah copy; not another fragment of the same physical Qumran manuscript.", "independence_group": "cambridge-b", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "cadbury-response": { "id": "cadbury-response", "title": "Babylon · Cadbury correspondence and catalogue receipt", "url": "https://learn.babylonencyclopedia.com/resources/institution-access-desk/#birm-20261105", "kind": "Project correspondence summary", "locator": "Catalogue receipt and 6 November reply", "scope": "Private catalogue receipt; separate manuscript image and publication permissions remain ungranted.", "independence_group": "project-outreach", "checked": "2026-11-07" }, "enoch-lab-s2": { "id": "enoch-lab-s2", "title": "2025 dating study · S2 laboratory report", "url": "https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323185.s002&type=supplementary", "kind": "Primary study supplement", "locator": "Table S1, PDF p. 6; §§S2.2 and S2.7, PDF pp. 2–4, 9–10, 13, 15–17", "scope": "Sample P904-Fr009, four laboratory codes, combined radiocarbon result, cleaning protocol and chemical-analysis limitations. Same research dataset as S3, S4 and S10.", "independence_group": "popovic2025-radiocarbon-and-model", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "enoch-lab-s3": { "id": "enoch-lab-s3", "title": "2025 dating study · S3 calibrated probability plot", "url": "https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323185.s003&type=supplementary", "kind": "Primary study supplement", "locator": "PDF p. 3 · plot headed 4Q201/4Q338", "scope": "R_Date(2077,18); two separate components at the reported 95.4% probability level. OxCal 4.4.4, atmospheric calibration from Reimer et al. (2020). Not an ink or authorship date.", "independence_group": "popovic2025-radiocarbon-and-model", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "enoch-lab-s10": { "id": "enoch-lab-s10", "title": "2025 dating study · S10 sample selection record", "url": "https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323185.s010&type=supplementary", "kind": "Primary study supplement", "locator": "Table S20, PDF p. 3 · plate 904", "scope": "P904-Fr009; 4Q201/4Q338; DJD 36, plate I, fragment 2; bottom right; 7–8 mg in two pieces. A sampling reference, not an excavation log.", "independence_group": "popovic2025-radiocarbon-and-model", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "enoch-lab-s4": { "id": "enoch-lab-s4", "title": "2025 dating study · S4 handwriting comparison", "url": "https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323185.s004&type=supplementary", "kind": "Primary study supplement", "locator": "PDF p. 5 · 4Q201 discussion", "scope": "Compares earlier palaeographic estimates with the material date. The thick, worn writing nib complicates script assessment. This comparison belongs to the same study, not a second laboratory.", "independence_group": "popovic2025-radiocarbon-and-model", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "enoch-iaa-image": { "id": "enoch-iaa-image", "title": "IAA · image B-298328, plate 821/Rec", "url": "https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/image/B-298328?locale=en_US", "kind": "Custodian image metadata", "locator": "B-298328 · recto · plate 821/Rec", "scope": "Lists 4Q201 and 4Q338 (Genealogical List?). This plate is not plate 904 of the sample record. “Unknown Date” concerns the modern photograph, not the ancient text.", "independence_group": "iaa", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "enoch-profile": { "id": "enoch-profile", "title": "Daniel Machiela · 4Q201/4Q338 manuscript profile", "url": "https://brill.com/display/book/9789004513815/BP000012.pdf", "kind": "Author’s manuscript study", "locator": "A Handbook of the Aramaic Scrolls from the Qumran Caves, chapter 2, §1, printed p. 24; DOI 10.1163/9789004513815_003", "scope": "Describes recto/verso texts, competing fragment numbering and a 1952 recovery lead for one large fragment. The profile does not identify the sampled fragment’s finder. Open chapter: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.", "independence_group": "machiela-manuscript-profile", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "enoch-iaa-904": { "id": "enoch-iaa-904", "title": "IAA · plate 904 photograph B-298333", "url": "https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/image/B-298333", "kind": "Custodian plate metadata", "locator": "Plate 904 · January 2012 · Shai Halevi · recto", "scope": "Public plate record links its individually numbered fragment images. These are modern photograph dates.", "independence_group": "iaa", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "enoch-iaa-fr9": { "id": "enoch-iaa-fr9", "title": "IAA · plate 904, fragment 9 · B-366868", "url": "https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/image/B-366868", "kind": "Custodian fragment image and metadata", "locator": "Plate 904, fragment 9 · May 2012 · full-spectrum colour · recto", "scope": "Metadata identifies 4Q201 and the plate/fragment number. Visual outline comparison with Langlois p. 389 supplies a strong candidate concordance; an identified sampling cut and item-level recovery record remain unconfirmed.", "independence_group": "iaa", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "enoch-inventory": { "id": "enoch-inventory", "title": "Photographic inventory · Fascicle 10", "url": "https://lyingpen.uia.no/dssinventoryproject/fascicle10/", "kind": "Historical research inventory, republished by a university project", "locator": "4Q201 document list; PAM 43.197–43.198; museum plates 821 and 904", "scope": "Connects M26 / museum plate 904 to PAM 43.198; M25 / plate 821 to PAM 43.197. Preliminary historical inventory, not a current statement of untranslated material or present custody.", "independence_group": "abmc-reed-inventory", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "enoch-langlois": { "id": "enoch-langlois", "title": "Michaël Langlois · 4Q201 fragment study (2008)", "url": "https://michaellanglois.org/medias/langlois-2008-le-premier-manuscrit-du-livre-dhenoch--etude-epigraphique-et-philologique-des-fragments-arameens-de-4q201-a-qumran-version-basse-qualite.pdf", "kind": "Author-hosted primary manuscript study", "locator": "Le premier manuscrit du Livre d’Hénoch: pp. 51, 61, 389–399; French rendering p. 399", "scope": "Selected pages checked, including photographs, reading uncertainties and French translation of fragment 2. Describes fragments 2–8 as published in DJD 36 (2000). Its proposed Book of Giants association is a scholarly hypothesis, not a settled identification. Source PDF remains at the author’s site.", "independence_group": "langlois-2008-fragment-study", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "astro-208": { "id": "astro-208", "title": "IAA · 4Q208, plate 814", "url": "https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/image/B-371434", "kind": "Custodian photograph record", "locator": "November 2013; plate 814", "scope": "Identification and mounting-plate fragments. Plate fragment numbers are not automatically edition numbers.", "independence_group": "iaa-astronomical-images", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "astro-209": { "id": "astro-209", "title": "IAA · 4Q209, plate 847", "url": "https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/image/B-371441", "kind": "Custodian photograph record", "locator": "November 2013; plate 847", "scope": "Identification and plate image. No material age is derived from the photograph.", "independence_group": "iaa-astronomical-images", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "astro-jull": { "id": "astro-jull", "title": "Jull, Donahue, Broshi and Tov · radiocarbon report (1995)", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033822200014740", "kind": "Primary laboratory report", "locator": "Printed pp. 11–14 and 19; Table 2 p. 14", "scope": "4Q208 = DSS-13 / AA-13245, 2095 ± 20 BP, nine determinations; historical calibration 1σ 166–102 BCE, 2σ 186–92 BCE. These results concern material, not the ink or narrated epoch.", "independence_group": "jull1995-arizona", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "astro-jacobus": { "id": "astro-jacobus", "title": "Jacobus · Reconstructing the Calendar of 4Q208–4Q209 (2019)", "url": "https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/158031586/ReconstructingHJ4Q208_4Q209_2_.pdf", "kind": "Primary scholarly argument · accepted manuscript", "locator": "Selected PDF pp. 4–8, 10–12 and 22", "scope": "English excerpts adapt Drawnel 2011. Proposed one-year reconstruction is an argument, not consensus; selected passage readings remain partly restored.", "independence_group": "jacobus-calendar-reconstruction", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "astro-ratzon2017": { "id": "astro-ratzon2017", "title": "Ratzon · The First Jewish Astronomers (2017)", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269889717000114", "kind": "Primary scholarly abstract", "locator": "Science in Context 30(2), 113–139", "scope": "Abstract consulted; full paper not obtained. Detailed three-year proposal is discussed through Jacobus’s response, with that dependency identified.", "independence_group": "ratzon-calendar-reconstruction", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "astro-ratzon2019": { "id": "astro-ratzon2019", "title": "Ratzon · 4Q208: A new reconstruction (2019)", "url": "https://cris.tau.ac.il/en/publications/4q208-a-new-reconstruction-and-its-implications-on-the-evolution-/", "kind": "Author-institution publication record and abstract", "locator": "Revue de Qumran 31(1), 51–110", "scope": "Abstract describes a new reconstruction, textual plurality and changing models; full article not obtained in this review.", "independence_group": "ratzon-calendar-reconstruction", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "astro-join": { "id": "astro-join", "title": "Tigchelaar · proposed 4Q209 fragment join (2022)", "url": "https://zenodo.org/records/6413973", "kind": "Author-deposited preprint metadata", "locator": "5 April 2022, version 1, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6413973", "scope": "Proposes 4Q209 frg. 4 + PAM 43.666 frg. 41 (IAA plate 88, frg. 35). Metadata consulted; full PDF and physical join not independently reviewed.", "independence_group": "tigchelaar2022-join", "checked": "2026-11-09" }, "astro-charles": { "id": "astro-charles", "title": "1 Enoch 72–82 · R. H. Charles English edition", "url": "https://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/enoch/ENOCH_3.HTM", "kind": "Primary translated literary text", "locator": "Chapters 72, 74–78 and 82", "scope": "Fuller Ethiopic Enoch tradition in an English edition. Names here are not thereby demonstrated on either selected Aramaic fragment.", "independence_group": "charles-ethiopic-enoch", "checked": "2026-11-09" } }, "biographies": [ { "id": "nippur-cbs10673", "title": "The Sumerian Flood Tablet", "identifier": "CBS10673 + CBS10867 · CDLI P265876", "catalogue_id": "nippur-cbs10673", "summary": "Trace a named clay witness, the basis of its date, its acquisition credit and a modern composite translation.", "work": "Sumerian Flood story · ETCSL 1.7.4", "language": "Sumerian", "repository": "Penn Museum", "people": [ { "role": "Ancient author", "name": "Not identified in this review", "status": "Unknown", "basis": "No personal author is established by the consulted object record.", "source_ids": [ "penn" ] }, { "role": "Scribe", "name": "Not identified in this review", "status": "Unknown", "basis": "Script supports a dating assessment; it does not identify the writer by name.", "source_ids": [ "penn" ] }, { "role": "Finder / excavator", "name": "Exact finder and excavation register not yet checked", "status": "Open", "basis": "Nippur is the recorded provenience. The 1896 expedition/gift credit is not an exact discovery log.", "source_ids": [ "penn" ] } ], "communities": [ { "name": "Nippur, Mesopotamia", "relation": "Recorded findspot", "status": "Catalogue-reported", "note": "Place and Sumerian language do not identify a particular tribe or the author’s ancestry.", "source_ids": [ "penn" ] } ], "events": [ { "id": "nippur-narrative", "kind": "Narrated events", "label": "Flood narrative · historical event date unestablished", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Textual narrative", "reason": "A narrated Flood cannot be dated from the copy alone.", "source_ids": [ "penn" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "nippur-composition", "kind": "Composition", "label": "Composition date · not assigned in this pilot", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Bibliography needed", "reason": "The physical witness and first composition have separate histories.", "source_ids": [ "penn" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "nippur-copy", "kind": "Copy / manufacture", "label": "About 1650 BCE · museum script-based dating", "start": -1650, "end": -1650, "precision": "Approximate point", "status": "Catalogue assessment", "method": "Palaeography / script comparison", "reason": "The museum explicitly attributes the seventeenth-century estimate to script; no lab measurement is claimed.", "source_ids": [ "penn" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "nippur-discovery", "kind": "Discovery", "label": "Exact excavation date, finder and locus · pending", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Excavation documentation needed", "reason": "Do not substitute the credit-line year for a witnessed discovery date.", "source_ids": [ "penn" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "nippur-acquisition", "kind": "Acquisition", "label": "1896 · expedition / gift credit", "start": 1896, "end": 1896, "precision": "Year", "status": "Catalogue-reported", "method": "Museum credit line", "reason": "An acquisition-history anchor, not a dated ancient event.", "source_ids": [ "penn" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" } ], "translations": [ { "language": "English", "scope": "Work-level composite reading", "passage": "ETCSL 1.7.4; selected tablet-to-line concordance pending", "status": "Route located · not fully collated", "edition": "ETCSL; museum links the composition and join", "source_ids": [ "penn", "etcsl" ], "coverage_url": "/resources/translation-coverage/sky-and-flood/#coverage-nippur-cbs10673" } ], "claims": [ { "id": "nippur-copy-date", "text": "This physical witness is approximately seventeenth-century BCE.", "status": "One documented dating assessment; further checks open", "witnesses": [ { "slot": 1, "status": "Supports", "note": "Museum gives the approximate date and identifies script as its basis.", "source_ids": [ "penn" ], "independence_group": "penn" }, { "slot": 2, "status": "Pending", "note": "Locate the underlying dated script comparison and publication.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": null }, { "slot": 3, "status": "Pending", "note": "Check excavation context or another independently justified assessment.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": null } ] }, { "id": "nippur-history", "text": "The museum credit records an 1896 expedition / gift association.", "status": "Credit established; precise find event unresolved", "witnesses": [ { "slot": 1, "status": "Supports", "note": "Public credit line is the consulted evidence.", "source_ids": [ "penn" ], "independence_group": "penn" }, { "slot": 2, "status": "Pending", "note": "Obtain accession or expedition-register reference.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": null }, { "slot": 3, "status": "Pending", "note": "Locate a contemporary field report or diary with the object identifier.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": null } ] } ], "gaps": [ { "id": "nippur-find", "kind": "Discovery / custody", "priority": "High", "question": "Which existing register fixes the finder, season and locus for CBS10673/CBS10867?", "action": "Focused archival-reference question sent; await the museum’s existing records.", "case": "penn-20261105" }, { "id": "nippur-dating", "kind": "Dating method", "priority": "High", "question": "Which publication supplies the script-based date and its comparison material?", "action": "Locate the cited dating argument before turning an approximate estimate into a narrow range.", "case": "penn-20261105" }, { "id": "nippur-translation", "kind": "Passage coverage", "priority": "High", "question": "Which lines belong to each joined fragment and to the composite translation?", "action": "Collate selected photographs, transliteration and translation; preserve damaged text.", "case": "penn-20261105" } ], "source_ids": [ "penn", "etcsl", "penn-request" ], "case": "penn-20261105" }, { "id": "qumran-4q201", "title": "Enoch’s Aramaic Witness", "identifier": "4Q201 · 4Q Enᵃ", "catalogue_id": "qumran-4q201", "summary": "Trace 4Q201’s Aramaic Enoch text, writing on both faces, a measured parchment sample and the questions still open about its author, recovery and translation.", "work": "1 Enoch · selected Aramaic material", "language": "Aramaic", "repository": "Israel Antiquities Authority · catalogue route", "people": [ { "role": "Traditional / literary attribution", "name": "Enoch", "status": "Attribution", "basis": "The work’s Enochic identity does not establish that the surviving parchment is an autograph.", "source_ids": [ "loc-enoch" ] }, { "role": "Ancient author / compiler", "name": "Individual identity not established here", "status": "Unknown", "basis": "Authorship of the work, its literary speaker and the scribe of this copy are distinct questions.", "source_ids": [ "loc-enoch" ] }, { "role": "Scribe", "name": "Anonymous in the reviewed records", "status": "Unknown", "basis": "Handwriting analysis may characterize a hand without providing a personal name.", "source_ids": [ "dating2025" ] }, { "role": "Modern transcription / translation", "name": "J. T. Milik; J. C. Greenfield", "status": "Named responsibility", "basis": "The exhibition credits Milik’s transcription, amended by Greenfield, and Greenfield’s selected English translation.", "source_ids": [ "loc-translation" ] } ], "communities": [ { "name": "Qumran Cave 4", "relation": "Manuscript catalogue / find context", "status": "Reported context", "note": "This is not proof of a named tribe, individual writer or one community’s authorship of every scroll.", "source_ids": [ "loc-enoch", "iaa" ] }, { "name": "Proposed Qumran / Essene connections", "relation": "Scholarly community hypothesis", "status": "Unresolved for this author", "note": "Community hypotheses need manuscript-specific arguments. No tribal identity is assigned.", "source_ids": [ "qumran-context" ] } ], "events": [ { "id": "enoch-narrative", "kind": "Narrated events", "label": "Enochic narrative setting · no historical year assigned", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Literary setting", "method": "Textual attribution", "reason": "A patriarchal narrative setting is not a laboratory age or the copy date.", "source_ids": [ "loc-enoch" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "enoch-composition", "kind": "Composition", "label": "Composition of the surviving sections · separate study needed", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Textual and historical analysis needed", "reason": "Do not apply one date to all sections or substitute the patriarch’s lifetime.", "source_ids": [ "loc-enoch" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "enoch-copy", "kind": "Copy / manufacture", "label": "200–150 BCE · 1993 exhibition copy-date assessment", "start": -200, "end": -150, "precision": "Range", "status": "Historical assessment", "method": "Exhibition dating; underlying method to trace", "reason": "Retained with its source date. It is not presented as a newly established consensus.", "source_ids": [ "loc-enoch" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "enoch-discovery", "kind": "Discovery", "label": "4Q201’s exact recovery date and finder · not yet verified", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Item-level field / acquisition records needed", "reason": "Machiela reports mixed 1952 recovery routes and a large fragment associated with official excavation plate PAM 40.985. A candidate image/edition concordance for the sampled piece is now recorded, but its specific field or accession entry remains unverified. Competing fragment numberings cannot establish that it is the same excavated piece.", "source_ids": [ "iaa", "enoch-profile" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "enoch-edition", "kind": "Edition / translation", "label": "1976 · Milik’s cited Aramaic edition", "start": 1976, "end": 1976, "precision": "Year", "status": "Publication reference located", "method": "Exhibition bibliography", "reason": "The publication year dates an edition, not the ancient copy.", "source_ids": [ "loc-enoch" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "enoch-exhibition", "kind": "Edition / translation", "label": "1993 · institutional caption and selected English excerpt", "start": 1993, "end": 1993, "precision": "Year", "status": "Selected public translation", "method": "Exhibition publication", "reason": "Full manuscript translation coverage is not established by the excerpt.", "source_ids": [ "loc-enoch", "loc-translation" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "enoch-science", "kind": "Dating study", "label": "4 June 2025 · study and sample-specific supporting data published", "start": 2025, "end": 2025, "precision": "Year", "status": "Primary report and supplements checked", "method": "Primary research and supporting sample tables", "reason": "The study’s publication date is separate from the ancient sample date. The AI model is trained with radiocarbon reference data; it is not an independent second laboratory measurement.", "source_ids": [ "dating2025", "enoch-lab-s2", "enoch-lab-s3", "enoch-lab-s10" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "enoch-material", "kind": "Material dating", "label": "P904-Fr009 · 165–40 BCE (93.6%) and 10–1 BCE (1.9%)", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Disjoint calibrated intervals · 95.4% reported level", "status": "Published material measurement transcribed", "method": "AMS radiocarbon, 2077 ± 18 BP; OxCal 4.4.4 / IntCal20", "reason": "Two alternative probability intervals for one parchment sample, not two manufacture events. Neither is an ink, composition or author date. Component percentages are rounded in the published plot.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-lab-s2", "enoch-lab-s3", "enoch-lab-s10" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09", "intervals": [ { "start": -165, "end": -40, "probability": 93.6, "label": "165–40 BCE" }, { "start": -10, "end": -1, "probability": 1.9, "label": "10–1 BCE" } ], "coverage_probability": 95.4 }, { "id": "enoch-photo1957", "kind": "Photograph", "label": "July 1957 · PAM 42.228 photograph, as dated by Langlois", "start": 1957, "end": 1957, "precision": "Month reported; plotted at year scale", "status": "Published photographic-history reference", "method": "Langlois photograph table p. 61 and fragment 2 image p. 389", "reason": "Documents a photograph, not excavation or antiquity. The table and fragment-study numbering must remain identifiable.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-langlois" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "enoch-photo1960", "kind": "Photograph", "label": "January 1960 · PAM 43.198 photograph, as dated by Langlois", "start": 1960, "end": 1960, "precision": "Month reported; plotted at year scale", "status": "Published photographic-history reference", "method": "Langlois photograph table p. 61; historical inventory plate concordance", "reason": "The photographic inventory links this negative to museum plate 904. The modern photograph date is distinct from an ancient writing date or recovery date.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-langlois", "enoch-inventory" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "enoch-djd2000", "kind": "Edition / translation", "label": "2000 · Stuckenbruck edition of fragments 2–8 in DJD 36", "start": 2000, "end": 2000, "precision": "Year", "status": "Edition reference corroborated; pages not inspected", "method": "IAA publication list and Langlois p. 51", "reason": "Establishes that these fragments were subsequently published. The older inventory’s unpublished labels cannot establish their status today; exact English coverage remains unchecked.", "source_ids": [ "iaa", "enoch-langlois" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "enoch-langlois2008", "kind": "Edition / translation", "label": "2008 · Langlois fragment 2 study and French rendering", "start": 2008, "end": 2008, "precision": "Year", "status": "Selected edition pages and rendering inspected", "method": "Author-hosted study pp. 389–399", "reason": "A French rendering exists for this fragmentary unit. Textual placement remains debated and this is not proof that every line survives or that a whole-witness translation audit is complete.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-langlois" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" } ], "translations": [ { "language": "English", "scope": "Selected excerpt", "passage": "Enᵃ I ii 12–14 and I iii 13–16", "status": "Selected translation located · full coverage unchecked", "edition": "Greenfield translation, with Milik transcription amended by Greenfield", "source_ids": [ "loc-translation" ], "coverage_url": "/resources/translation-coverage/enoch-giants-jubilees/#coverage-qumran-4q201" }, { "language": "French", "scope": "Selected fragment · candidate sampled-piece concordance", "passage": "4Q201 fragment 2 · Langlois’s numbered positions 1–7", "status": "French rendering checked · damaged and uncertain lines retained", "edition": "Langlois, Le premier manuscrit du Livre d’Hénoch (2008), pp. 389–399; French text p. 399. This is not a new Babylon translation or a verified English coverage assessment.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-langlois" ], "coverage_url": "/resources/translation-coverage/enoch-giants-jubilees/#coverage-qumran-4q201" } ], "claims": [ { "id": "enoch-dating", "text": "A 1993 exhibition assigned this copy a 200–150 BCE range.", "status": "Historical caption retained; later material result separately documented", "witnesses": [ { "slot": 1, "status": "Supports", "note": "The exhibition explicitly prints this copy range.", "source_ids": [ "loc-enoch" ], "independence_group": "loc-1993-enoch" }, { "slot": 2, "status": "Context", "note": "The 2025 material ranges overlap part of the older copy estimate and also permit later dates. They measure a different thing and do not establish one exact writing year.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-lab-s3", "enoch-lab-s4" ], "independence_group": "popovic2025-radiocarbon-and-model" }, { "slot": 3, "status": "Pending", "note": "Locate the palaeographic argument and a manuscript-specific independent comparison.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": null } ] }, { "id": "enoch-material-claim", "text": "The 2025 report dates parchment sample P904-Fr009 under the label 4Q201/4Q338, with two separate calibrated ranges.", "status": "One published laboratory dataset traced; physical concordance still open", "witnesses": [ { "slot": 1, "status": "Supports", "note": "S2 supplies the combined radiocarbon age and laboratory codes; S3 supplies the probability ranges; S10 supplies the sample locator. All belong to one study.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-lab-s2", "enoch-lab-s3", "enoch-lab-s10" ], "independence_group": "popovic2025-radiocarbon-and-model" }, { "slot": 2, "status": "Context", "note": "The custodian now supplies a plate 904, fragment 9 image candidate (B-366868). Metadata supports a locator comparison, not an independent radiocarbon result or verification of the cut.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-iaa-fr9" ], "independence_group": "iaa" }, { "slot": 3, "status": "Context", "note": "Machiela independently explains the two faces and the numbering problem. This is manuscript scholarship, not a repeat laboratory test or a confirmed match to the sampled piece.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-profile" ], "independence_group": "machiela-manuscript-profile" } ] }, { "id": "enoch-translation", "text": "A named English translation exists for the selected exhibition passages.", "status": "Selected coverage documented; whole-witness coverage unverified", "witnesses": [ { "slot": 1, "status": "Supports", "note": "Greenfield’s excerpt and translation credit are public.", "source_ids": [ "loc-translation" ], "independence_group": "loc-1993-enoch" }, { "slot": 2, "status": "Dependent", "note": "The exhibition caption belongs to the same source package; it is not a second independent translation.", "source_ids": [ "loc-enoch" ], "independence_group": "loc-1993-enoch" }, { "slot": 3, "status": "Pending", "note": "Match the print edition and manuscript photographs to the exact surviving units.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": null } ] }, { "id": "enoch-identity", "text": "The published sample locator has a specific public photograph candidate and a French fragment study to compare.", "status": "Locator and visual concordance documented; sampled-cut confirmation pending", "witnesses": [ { "slot": 1, "status": "Supports", "note": "The laboratory sampling table identifies P904-Fr009 and DJD 36 plate I fragment 2. It supplies the reported sampling address.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-lab-s10" ], "independence_group": "popovic2025-radiocarbon-and-model" }, { "slot": 2, "status": "Context", "note": "IAA B-366868 identifies plate 904, fragment 9. Its metadata does not certify that this is the exact piece from which the laboratory cut was taken.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-iaa-fr9" ], "independence_group": "iaa" }, { "slot": 3, "status": "Context", "note": "Langlois’s fragment 2 photographs give a matching outline and a French reading. The visual comparison is our inference across the two image records; the historical inventory is a supporting plate cross-reference.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-langlois", "enoch-inventory" ], "independence_group": "langlois-2008-fragment-study" } ] } ], "gaps": [ { "id": "enoch-lab", "kind": "Sample concordance / conservation", "priority": "High", "question": "Can the IAA confirm the B-366868 / fragment 2 concordance and identify the exact sampling cut?", "action": "Compare the located image, edition photograph and S10 locator; retain the match as provisional until an item-level sampling or conservation record confirms it. Focused IAA follow-up sent 9 November 2026.", "case": "iaa-enoch-20261105" }, { "id": "enoch-recovery", "kind": "Discovery / custody", "priority": "High", "question": "Which record documents the exact fragment recovery and subsequent custody?", "action": "Use the reported PAM 40.985 excavation lead and a numbering concordance to determine which fragment it concerns. Request the specific field/accession record once the unit is matched; do not transfer that recovery history to P904-Fr009 by assumption.", "case": "iaa-enoch-20261105" }, { "id": "enoch-full-translation", "kind": "Passage coverage", "priority": "High", "question": "What is the exact English coverage of fragment 2, and how do the two exhibition excerpts map to photographs?", "action": "French fragment 2 coverage is now documented. Obtain or consult DJD 36 pp. 3–7 and its plate I, retain damaged/uncertain positions, and map the separate exhibition units to images. No whole-witness completion claim is made.", "case": "iaa-enoch-20261105" } ], "source_ids": [ "loc-enoch", "loc-translation", "iaa", "dating2025", "qumran-context", "enoch-lab-s2", "enoch-lab-s3", "enoch-lab-s10", "enoch-lab-s4", "enoch-iaa-image", "enoch-profile", "enoch-iaa-904", "enoch-iaa-fr9", "enoch-inventory", "enoch-langlois" ], "case": "iaa-enoch-20261105", "reviewed": "2026-11-09", "physical_texts": [ { "side": "Recto · 4Q201", "text": "Aramaic Book of Watchers material within the Enoch tradition.", "limit": "The literary attribution to Enoch does not name the person who copied this manuscript.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-profile" ] }, { "side": "Verso · 4Q338", "text": "A separate, poorly identified text, tentatively called Genealogical List?.", "limit": "The question mark matters. It does not establish a named lineage, tribe or author; no separate laboratory date for either face is established here.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-profile", "enoch-iaa-image" ] } ], "laboratory": { "sample_id": "P904-Fr009", "reported_identifier": "4Q201/4Q338 · 4QEnᵃ ar / 4QGenealogical List", "plate": "904", "edition_locator": "DJD 36, plate I, fragment 2", "sample_location": "Bottom right; 7–8 mg in two pieces (S10)", "lab_codes": [ "GrM-13389", "GrM-13390", "GrM-14173", "GrM-14174" ], "radiocarbon_age_bp": 2077, "sigma_bp": 18, "bp_reference_year": 1950, "calibration": "OxCal v4.4.4 · IntCal20 / Reimer et al. (2020)", "coverage_probability": 95.4, "intervals": [ { "start": -165, "end": -40, "probability": 93.6, "label": "165–40 BCE" }, { "start": -10, "end": -1, "probability": 1.9, "label": "10–1 BCE" } ], "measurement_limit": "One identified parchment sample, reported under two manuscript designations. Four laboratory codes are measurement runs, not four independent manuscripts or four independent confirmations. Radiocarbon dates carbon in the writing support, not the application of ink, the composition of the work or the lifetime of Enoch.", "probability_note": "The plot reports a 95.4% total probability level. Its separately rounded component labels are 93.6% and 1.9%; these are preserved as printed. The gap between the two ranges is not filled in.", "pretreatment": "S2 describes solvent extraction in Odense, followed in Groningen by a modified acid-only preparation: 0.5–1% HCl at about 4°C for ten minutes, without the alkaline step, then AMS measurement. Its first ten samples are listed separately; 4Q201/4Q338 is outside that list. The report therefore places it in the remaining twenty-sample, four-step solvent protocol. This batch assignment follows the published list, rather than an individual bench sheet.", "chemistry_limit": "The sample-specific analytical table reports proteinaceous and lipid materials before cleaning. Lipid presence alone does not identify modern castor oil or prove its source. The report evaluates cleaning effectiveness across the dataset; an item-level bench log and conservation history have not been obtained.", "identification_limit": "A candidate image concordance is now located: IAA B-366868 is plate 904, fragment 9, and its outline matches the fragment labelled 4Q201 2 in Langlois, p. 389. The historical inventory connects plate 904 / M26 to PAM 43.198. S10 independently names P904-Fr009 and DJD 36 plate I fragment 2. The numerical and visual alignment is strong, but the exact cut, edition crosswalk and recovery record still require custodian confirmation; plate 821 is a different mounted grouping.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-lab-s2", "enoch-lab-s3", "enoch-lab-s10" ] }, "concordance": { "summary": "Follow the numbers through the laboratory report, custodian photographs and a later fragment study. A matching outline is documented as a project comparison, not substituted for a sampling record.", "status": "Candidate image concordance located · IAA confirmation requested 9 November 2026", "steps": [ { "label": "Laboratory locator", "identity": "P904-Fr009 · plate 904 · DJD 36, plate I, fragment 2", "status": "Published reference checked", "note": "S10 gives a bottom-right sampling location. It does not itself supply a public sampling diagram.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-lab-s10" ] }, { "label": "Current public image", "identity": "B-366868 · plate 904, fragment 9 · recto", "status": "Custodian metadata checked", "note": "The May 2012 full-spectrum colour image is linked from the plate photograph B-298333. The photograph date does not date the manuscript.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-iaa-fr9", "enoch-iaa-904" ] }, { "label": "Edition photograph", "identity": "4Q201 fragment 2 · Langlois pp. 389–390", "status": "Project visual match · provisional", "note": "The outline and surviving text areas correspond to B-366868. Langlois reproduces PAM 42.228 and 43.198; confirmation of the actual sampled cut is still needed.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-langlois", "enoch-iaa-fr9" ] }, { "label": "Historical photograph trail", "identity": "M26 → museum plate 904 → PAM 43.198", "status": "Historical inventory link checked", "note": "This is a plate-level link. A museum mounting plate, photographic negative number and edition fragment number belong to different numbering systems.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-inventory" ] }, { "label": "Recovery and custody", "identity": "Exact finder / field or acquisition entry not yet assigned", "status": "Open · item-level evidence requested", "note": "The reported 1952 excavation lead for a large fragment cannot be transferred to this piece by reusing the number 2. A photograph proves presence at the time of photography, not an excavation date.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-profile", "enoch-langlois" ] } ], "translation_checks": [ { "unit": "Exhibition I ii 12–14", "language": "English", "state": "Selected published translation checked", "reference": "Greenfield · Library of Congress", "limit": "Its precise image and modern verse concordance remain open.", "source_ids": [ "loc-translation" ] }, { "unit": "Exhibition I iii 13–16", "language": "English", "state": "Selected published translation checked", "reference": "Greenfield · Library of Congress", "limit": "Restoration brackets remain part of the reading evidence; this excerpt is not fragment 2.", "source_ids": [ "loc-translation" ] }, { "unit": "4Q201 fragment 2 · numbered positions 1–7", "language": "French", "state": "Selected translation located and checked", "reference": "Langlois 2008, pp. 389–399; rendering p. 399", "limit": "Fragmentary expressions are rendered at positions 1–3; later positions are ellipses. The discussion treats the presence of lines 6–7 as uncertain. Proposed placement in the Book of Giants is provisional.", "source_ids": [ "enoch-langlois" ] }, { "unit": "DJD 36, 4Q201 fragments 2–8", "language": "English coverage to verify", "state": "Edition reference located · pages not inspected", "reference": "Stuckenbruck 2000, pp. 3–7, plate I", "limit": "A published edition is identified. This review has not obtained or audited its English translation line by line; it cannot call the fragment untranslated.", "source_ids": [ "iaa", "enoch-langlois" ] } ] } }, { "id": "mingana-560", "title": "Al-Khujandi’s Instrument and Its Supplement", "identifier": "Mingana Islamic Arabic 560 · catalogue 1902", "catalogue_id": "mingana-560", "summary": "One codex preserves a base treatise and a separate supplement. Follow their authors, damaged passages and comparison manuscripts separately.", "work": "Kitab al-alah al-shamilah; separate Hibatallah supplement", "language": "Arabic", "repository": "Cadbury Research Library · University of Birmingham", "people": [ { "role": "Attributed author · base work", "name": "Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr al-Khujandi", "status": "Catalogue attribution", "basis": "Work attribution is catalogued separately from the surviving Birmingham copy. Exact birth/death years are not established here.", "source_ids": [ "ismi-base", "hogendijk" ] }, { "role": "Attributed author · supplement", "name": "Hibatallah al-Asturlabi", "status": "Catalogue attribution", "basis": "ISMI’s separate supplement record names this author. The appendix must not be treated as an anonymous part of al-Khujandi’s original.", "source_ids": [ "ismi-supplement" ] }, { "role": "Scribe / scribes", "name": "Not established for Birmingham 560", "status": "Unknown", "basis": "No autograph claim or named Birmingham copyist has been verified in this review.", "source_ids": [ "catalogue", "ismi-codex" ] } ], "communities": [ { "name": "Islamic scientific manuscript tradition", "relation": "Language and scholarly subject context", "status": "Catalogue context", "note": "Arabic language and an author’s place-name do not establish a tribe, copying location or ethnic lineage.", "source_ids": [ "ismi-base", "ismi-supplement" ] } ], "events": [ { "id": "khujandi-composition", "kind": "Composition", "label": "Base treatise composition · exact year unassigned", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Author/work bibliography", "reason": "An author’s approximate period does not provide an exact year for this treatise.", "source_ids": [ "hogendijk", "ismi-base" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "hibatallah-composition", "kind": "Composition", "label": "Supplement composition · separate date unassigned", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Separate work record", "reason": "The base work and later supplement require distinct composition histories.", "source_ids": [ "ismi-supplement" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "mingana-copy", "kind": "Copy / manufacture", "label": "Thirteenth century CE · historical catalogue estimate", "start": 1201, "end": 1300, "precision": "Century", "status": "Historical assessment", "method": "Catalogue description; underlying basis to confirm", "reason": "Printed p. 353 gives an approximate copying period. No dated colophon or radiocarbon result is claimed.", "source_ids": [ "catalogue" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "mingana-discovery", "kind": "Discovery", "label": "Recovery and early ownership · not yet traced", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Provenance / accession records needed", "reason": "Collection membership alone cannot reconstruct a complete custody chain.", "source_ids": [ "catalogue", "ismi-codex" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "mingana-catalogue", "kind": "Catalogue publication", "label": "1985 · revised catalogue description", "start": 1985, "end": 1985, "precision": "Year", "status": "Bibliographic anchor", "method": "Historical catalogue edition", "reason": "The catalogue publication date is separate from the manuscript estimate.", "source_ids": [ "catalogue" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "mingana-receipt", "kind": "Research access", "label": "2026 · study catalogue received privately", "start": 2026, "end": 2026, "precision": "Year", "status": "Receipt recorded", "method": "Reviewed project record", "reason": "Receiving a catalogue does not mean manuscript images, an edition or a translation have been obtained.", "source_ids": [ "cadbury-response" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" }, { "id": "mingana-inquiry", "kind": "Correspondence", "label": "6 November 2026 · Oxford comparison inquiry", "start": 2026, "end": 2026, "precision": "Day in label; year on overview", "status": "Automatic acknowledgement only", "method": "Reviewed dispatch / response record", "reason": "The acknowledgement supplies no folio, edition or permission answer.", "source_ids": [ "oxford-request" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-07" } ], "translations": [ { "language": "English", "scope": "Base work · whole-work availability research", "passage": "Birmingham main work, folios 2–30; surviving sequence incomplete", "status": "Current edition / translation status unverified", "edition": "Hogendijk reports Lorch’s unpublished edition work; current confirmation pending", "source_ids": [ "catalogue", "hogendijk" ], "coverage_url": "/research/mingana-quran-and-timekeeping/#edition-status" }, { "language": "English", "scope": "Separate Hibatallah supplement", "passage": "Folios 31–35; possible defective ending", "status": "Translation coverage not checked", "edition": "Separate bibliography and parallel-witness check needed", "source_ids": [ "catalogue", "ismi-supplement" ], "coverage_url": "/research/mingana-quran-and-timekeeping/#separate-supplement" } ], "claims": [ { "id": "mingana-two-works", "text": "The codex contains a base work and a separately attributed supplement.", "status": "Catalogue distinction located; manuscript collation pending", "witnesses": [ { "slot": 1, "status": "Supports", "note": "The historical catalogue separates the sections and folios.", "source_ids": [ "catalogue" ], "independence_group": "catalogue" }, { "slot": 2, "status": "Dependent", "note": "ISMI also distinguishes two works, but its dependence on catalogue literature has not been resolved.", "source_ids": [ "ismi-codex", "ismi-supplement" ], "independence_group": "ismi-catalogue-tradition" }, { "slot": 3, "status": "Pending", "note": "Compare photographs and the opening / closing words with another identified witness.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": null } ] }, { "id": "mingana-translation-status", "text": "The present publication status requires a current bibliographical check.", "status": "Specialist report located; absence not established", "witnesses": [ { "slot": 1, "status": "Supports", "note": "A specialist guide reports unpublished edition / translation work.", "source_ids": [ "hogendijk" ], "independence_group": "hogendijk" }, { "slot": 2, "status": "Pending", "note": "Obtain a current published reference or a custodian / specialist referral.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": null }, { "slot": 3, "status": "Pending", "note": "Search edition and research-paper catalogues, distinguishing other works by this author.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": null } ] } ], "gaps": [ { "id": "mingana-oxford", "kind": "Comparison witness", "priority": "High", "question": "Which folios of Huntington 566 preserve the base work, and are existing study images available?", "action": "Await substantive Bodleian response; do not repeat yesterday’s inquiry.", "case": "oxf-huntington-20261106" }, { "id": "mingana-supplement", "kind": "Authorship / text identity", "priority": "High", "question": "Does Marsh 663 preserve the same supplement or a related work?", "action": "Match catalogue identity and opening / closing words before counting another witness.", "case": "oxf-huntington-20261106" }, { "id": "mingana-images", "kind": "Access / rights", "priority": "High", "question": "Which exact folios or existing surrogates would be sufficient for the first comparison?", "action": "Define a small selection; obtain an estimate before placing any non-cancellable imaging order.", "case": "birm-20261105" } ], "source_ids": [ "catalogue", "ismi-codex", "ismi-base", "ismi-supplement", "hogendijk", "imaging", "oxford-request", "cadbury-response" ], "case": "oxf-huntington-20261106" }, { "id": "qumran-4q208", "title": "Astronomical Enoch · 4Q208", "identifier": "4Q208 · 4Q Enastrᵃ · IAA plate 814", "catalogue_id": "qumran-4q208", "summary": "Follow this Aramaic astronomical witness through its identity, selected lunar-calendar passage, dating evidence and open edition questions.", "work": "Aramaic Astronomical Book associated with 1 Enoch’s luminary tradition; not a complete copy of Ethiopic chapters 72–82", "language": "Aramaic", "repository": "Israel Antiquities Authority · Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library", "people": [ { "role": "Literary attribution and narrator", "name": "Enoch", "status": "Literary role; historical authorship not established", "basis": "The fuller Enoch tradition presents celestial instruction through Enoch. This does not identify the anonymous ancient author or the copyist of this fragment.", "source_ids": [ "astro-charles" ] }, { "role": "Author / compiler and scribe", "name": "Not identified in this review", "status": "Unassigned", "basis": "No named author or copyist is established by the selected fragment reading. A manuscript date belongs to this copy or its material.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus" ] }, { "role": "Modern editors and interpreters", "name": "Henryk Drawnel; Eshbal Ratzon; Helen R. Jacobus", "status": "Distinct scholarly contributions", "basis": "The 2011 edition and competing 2017/2019 reconstructions are separate works. English excerpts here depend on an earlier edition.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus", "astro-ratzon2017", "astro-ratzon2019" ] } ], "communities": [ { "name": "Qumran Cave 4", "relation": "Manuscript find-context designation", "status": "Witness designation located", "note": "The cave designation does not by itself identify a tribe, author, finder or exclusive owner-community.", "source_ids": [ "astro-208" ] } ], "events": [ { "id": "qumran-4q208-composition", "kind": "Composition", "label": "Composition of this Astronomical Book recension · not independently dated here", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Distinguish work composition from surviving copy", "reason": "Neither a literary attribution to Enoch nor a date for another copy establishes this composition date.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q208-recovery", "kind": "Discovery", "label": "Cave 4 witness · exact recovery and acquisition trail still to trace", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Item-specific recovery record needed", "reason": "A photograph date is not the discovery date. A regional find history does not identify an individual finder.", "source_ids": [ "astro-208" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q208-copy", "kind": "Copy", "label": "Copying interval · item-specific handwriting assessment still to reconcile", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Palaeography requires a named comparison and assessment date", "reason": "No numeric interval is borrowed from 4Q201 or the other astronomical witness.", "source_ids": [ "astro-ratzon2019" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q208-material", "kind": "Material", "label": "4Q208 parchment · 186–92 BCE, reported 2σ interval in 1995", "start": -186, "end": -92, "precision": "Historical calibrated interval", "status": "Published historical result", "method": "Arizona AMS: DSS-13 / AA-13245, 2095 ± 20 BP; nine determinations. 1986 calibration references in the report.", "reason": "Table 2 also gives 1σ 166–102 BCE and historical palaeographic estimate about 200 BCE. No fresh calibration was performed. Material dating does not date the author, ink, calendar epoch or a Flood.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jull" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q208-sampling", "kind": "Sampling", "label": "DSS-13 sampling belongs to the 21–22 March 1994 batch", "start": 1994, "end": 1994, "precision": "Year; two-day batch specified", "status": "Reported sampling batch", "method": "Report p. 11 excludes DSS-50, 52 and 53 from this batch; DSS-13 is not among those exceptions.", "reason": "Exact within-batch sampling day and fragment-image concordance remain unconfirmed.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jull" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q208-labpublication", "kind": "Laboratory publication", "label": "Radiocarbon 37(1) report · 1995", "start": 1995, "end": 1995, "precision": "Publication year", "status": "Located", "method": "Journal issue date", "reason": "Cambridge’s 2016 online date is digital availability, not the original publication year.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jull" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q208-photo", "kind": "Photograph", "label": "IAA colour photograph · November 2013", "start": 2013, "end": 2013, "precision": "Year; month recorded in source", "status": "Located", "method": "Custodian photograph metadata", "reason": "This dates modern imaging, not the ancient writing.", "source_ids": [ "astro-208" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q208-edition", "kind": "Edition", "label": "Drawnel edition used by the selected later English excerpts · 2011", "start": 2011, "end": 2011, "precision": "Publication year", "status": "Bibliographic route", "method": "Jacobus cites and adapts the edition", "reason": "The complete 2011 edition was not obtained; the selected later excerpts were inspected.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q208-study", "kind": "Research", "label": "Jacobus calendar reconstruction and Ratzon comparison · 2019", "start": 2019, "end": 2019, "precision": "Publication year", "status": "Selected pages reviewed", "method": "Competing mathematical reconstructions", "reason": "A modern reconstruction fills gaps with an argument; it is not additional surviving ancient writing.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus", "astro-ratzon2019" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" } ], "translations": [ { "language": "English", "scope": "Selected edited excerpt; not whole-witness coverage", "passage": "Edition fragment 15; compare 4Q208 15 and 4Q209 16", "status": "English excerpt route located; photographic collation pending", "edition": "Jacobus 2019 accepted manuscript, PDF pp. 11–12; adapting Drawnel 2011, pp. 102–104 as cited there. Restored wording must remain marked. A textual parallel is not a physical join.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus" ], "coverage_url": "/resources/translation-coverage/enoch-giants-jubilees/#coverage-qumran-4q208" } ], "claims": [ { "id": "qumran-4q208-identity", "text": "The IAA identifies the pictured witness as 4Q208.", "status": "Custodian identity located; edition-fragment mapping still open", "witnesses": [ { "slot": 1, "status": "Supports", "note": "The plate record names the manuscript and its modern mounting plate.", "source_ids": [ "astro-208" ], "independence_group": "iaa-astronomical-images" }, { "slot": 2, "status": "Context", "note": "The article discusses this manuscript, but it does not independently establish every plate-to-edition fragment match.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus" ], "independence_group": "jacobus-calendar-reconstruction" }, { "slot": 3, "status": "Pending", "note": "A further independent, claim-specific check is still needed. This slot is not a third confirmation.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": "" } ] }, { "id": "qumran-4q208-dating", "text": "A 1995 laboratory report publishes a material measurement for 4Q208.", "status": "Historical result traced; updated calibration and sampling concordance remain open", "witnesses": [ { "slot": 1, "status": "Supports", "note": "Table 2 identifies DSS-13 / AA-13245 and its reported calibrated ranges.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jull" ], "independence_group": "jull1995-arizona" }, { "slot": 2, "status": "Context", "note": "Photographs identify the witness; no exact sample cut was matched in this review.", "source_ids": [ "astro-208" ], "independence_group": "iaa-astronomical-images" }, { "slot": 3, "status": "Pending", "note": "A further independent, claim-specific check is still needed. This slot is not a third confirmation.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": "" } ] } ], "gaps": [ { "id": "qumran-4q208-image-map", "kind": "Fragment concordance", "priority": "High", "question": "Which plate image maps to edition fragment 15 and the selected lines?", "action": "Locate an explicit DJD / Drawnel concordance. Do not turn mounting-plate fragment numbers into edition numbers. Existing IAA correspondence is linked; no new request for these witnesses has been sent.", "case": "iaa-enoch-20261105" }, { "id": "qumran-4q208-calendar-check", "kind": "Calendar reconstruction", "priority": "High", "question": "Which numerals survive, and which day or month assignments are restored?", "action": "Obtain the full competing editions; collate one damaged numeral and both possible lunar-month placements before choosing a reconstruction.", "case": "iaa-enoch-20261105" }, { "id": "qumran-4q208-dating-check", "kind": "Dating and custody", "priority": "High", "question": "Can the 1995 sample be mapped to a photographed piece, and is an updated calibration published?", "action": "Trace the laboratory sample record and published calibration history; retain the 1995 result with its method label.", "case": "iaa-enoch-20261105" } ], "source_ids": [ "astro-208", "astro-jull", "astro-jacobus", "astro-ratzon2017", "astro-ratzon2019", "astro-charles" ], "case": "iaa-enoch-20261105", "reviewed": "2026-11-09", "published": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q209", "title": "Astronomical Enoch · 4Q209", "identifier": "4Q209 · 4Q Enastrᵇ · IAA plate 847", "catalogue_id": "qumran-4q209", "summary": "Follow this Aramaic astronomical witness through its identity, selected lunar-calendar passage, dating evidence and open edition questions.", "work": "Aramaic Astronomical Book associated with 1 Enoch’s luminary tradition; not a complete copy of Ethiopic chapters 72–82", "language": "Aramaic", "repository": "Israel Antiquities Authority · Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library", "people": [ { "role": "Literary attribution and narrator", "name": "Enoch", "status": "Literary role; historical authorship not established", "basis": "The fuller Enoch tradition presents celestial instruction through Enoch. This does not identify the anonymous ancient author or the copyist of this fragment.", "source_ids": [ "astro-charles" ] }, { "role": "Author / compiler and scribe", "name": "Not identified in this review", "status": "Unassigned", "basis": "No named author or copyist is established by the selected fragment reading. A manuscript date belongs to this copy or its material.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus" ] }, { "role": "Modern editors and interpreters", "name": "Henryk Drawnel; Eshbal Ratzon; Helen R. Jacobus", "status": "Distinct scholarly contributions", "basis": "The 2011 edition and competing 2017/2019 reconstructions are separate works. English excerpts here depend on an earlier edition.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus", "astro-ratzon2017", "astro-ratzon2019" ] } ], "communities": [ { "name": "Qumran Cave 4", "relation": "Manuscript find-context designation", "status": "Witness designation located", "note": "The cave designation does not by itself identify a tribe, author, finder or exclusive owner-community.", "source_ids": [ "astro-209" ] } ], "events": [ { "id": "qumran-4q209-composition", "kind": "Composition", "label": "Composition of this Astronomical Book recension · not independently dated here", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Distinguish work composition from surviving copy", "reason": "Neither a literary attribution to Enoch nor a date for another copy establishes this composition date.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q209-recovery", "kind": "Discovery", "label": "Cave 4 witness · exact recovery and acquisition trail still to trace", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Item-specific recovery record needed", "reason": "A photograph date is not the discovery date. A regional find history does not identify an individual finder.", "source_ids": [ "astro-209" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q209-copy", "kind": "Copy", "label": "Copying interval · item-specific handwriting assessment still to reconcile", "start": null, "end": null, "precision": "Unassigned", "status": "Open", "method": "Palaeography requires a named comparison and assessment date", "reason": "No numeric interval is borrowed from 4Q201 or the other astronomical witness.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q209-photo", "kind": "Photograph", "label": "IAA colour photograph · November 2013", "start": 2013, "end": 2013, "precision": "Year; month recorded in source", "status": "Located", "method": "Custodian photograph metadata", "reason": "This dates modern imaging, not the ancient writing.", "source_ids": [ "astro-209" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q209-edition", "kind": "Edition", "label": "Drawnel edition used by the selected later English excerpts · 2011", "start": 2011, "end": 2011, "precision": "Publication year", "status": "Bibliographic route", "method": "Jacobus cites and adapts the edition", "reason": "The complete 2011 edition was not obtained; the selected later excerpts were inspected.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q209-study", "kind": "Research", "label": "Jacobus calendar reconstruction and Ratzon comparison · 2019", "start": 2019, "end": 2019, "precision": "Publication year", "status": "Selected pages reviewed", "method": "Competing mathematical reconstructions", "reason": "A modern reconstruction fills gaps with an argument; it is not additional surviving ancient writing.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus", "astro-ratzon2019" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" }, { "id": "qumran-4q209-joinproposal", "kind": "Research", "label": "Tigchelaar proposed fragment join · 2022", "start": 2022, "end": 2022, "precision": "Publication year", "status": "Metadata located", "method": "Author-deposited preprint", "reason": "Full join argument and current editorial acceptance still require inspection.", "source_ids": [ "astro-join" ], "calendar": "Historical BCE/CE; no year zero", "reviewed": "2026-11-09" } ], "translations": [ { "language": "English", "scope": "Selected edited excerpt; not whole-witness coverage", "passage": "Edition fragment 16; compare 4Q208 15 and 4Q209 16", "status": "English excerpt route located; photographic collation pending", "edition": "Jacobus 2019 accepted manuscript, PDF pp. 11–12; adapting Drawnel 2011, pp. 178–180 as cited there. Restored wording must remain marked. A textual parallel is not a physical join.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus" ], "coverage_url": "/resources/translation-coverage/enoch-giants-jubilees/#coverage-qumran-4q209" } ], "claims": [ { "id": "qumran-4q209-identity", "text": "The IAA identifies the pictured witness as 4Q209.", "status": "Custodian identity located; edition-fragment mapping still open", "witnesses": [ { "slot": 1, "status": "Supports", "note": "The plate record names the manuscript and its modern mounting plate.", "source_ids": [ "astro-209" ], "independence_group": "iaa-astronomical-images" }, { "slot": 2, "status": "Context", "note": "The article discusses this manuscript, but it does not independently establish every plate-to-edition fragment match.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus" ], "independence_group": "jacobus-calendar-reconstruction" }, { "slot": 3, "status": "Pending", "note": "A further independent, claim-specific check is still needed. This slot is not a third confirmation.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": "" } ] }, { "id": "qumran-4q209-calendar", "text": "The selected 4Q209 passage participates in a schematic lunar calendar discussion.", "status": "Selected edited passage located; whole calendar reconstruction remains disputed", "witnesses": [ { "slot": 1, "status": "Supports", "note": "PDF p. 12 discusses fragment 16, partial Gate 3 wording and reconstructed day assignments.", "source_ids": [ "astro-jacobus" ], "independence_group": "jacobus-calendar-reconstruction" }, { "slot": 2, "status": "Context", "note": "Ratzon offers a different reconstruction. Its abstract is consulted; the full 2017 paper remains to obtain.", "source_ids": [ "astro-ratzon2017" ], "independence_group": "ratzon-calendar-reconstruction" }, { "slot": 3, "status": "Pending", "note": "A further independent, claim-specific check is still needed. This slot is not a third confirmation.", "source_ids": [], "independence_group": "" } ] } ], "gaps": [ { "id": "qumran-4q209-image-map", "kind": "Fragment concordance", "priority": "High", "question": "Which plate image maps to edition fragment 16 and the selected lines?", "action": "Locate an explicit DJD / Drawnel concordance. Do not turn mounting-plate fragment numbers into edition numbers. Existing IAA correspondence is linked; no new request for these witnesses has been sent.", "case": "iaa-enoch-20261105" }, { "id": "qumran-4q209-calendar-check", "kind": "Calendar reconstruction", "priority": "High", "question": "Which numerals survive, and which day or month assignments are restored?", "action": "Obtain the full competing editions; collate one damaged numeral and both possible lunar-month placements before choosing a reconstruction.", "case": "iaa-enoch-20261105" }, { "id": "qumran-4q209-dating-check", "kind": "Dating and custody", "priority": "High", "question": "Is there a manuscript-specific material test or dated handwriting study for 4Q209?", "action": "Do not reuse 4Q208’s carbon measurement. Obtain an item-specific primary report or leave material age unassigned.", "case": "iaa-enoch-20261105" } ], "source_ids": [ "astro-209", "astro-join", "astro-jacobus", "astro-ratzon2017", "astro-ratzon2019", "astro-charles" ], "case": "iaa-enoch-20261105", "reviewed": "2026-11-09", "published": "2026-11-09" } ], "access_reviews": [ { "id": "mingana-catalogue", "title": "Mingana Catalogue IV · three supplied PDFs", "case": "birm-20261105", "state": "Private files received", "files": "Three catalogue PDFs retained in private local research storage; online staff-back-office upload is not verified.", "reading": "Personal research use", "public_use": "Original factual summaries and catalogue citations only; no supplied PDF or scan republished.", "cost": "No new charge recorded for these supplied catalogue files.", "next": "Preserve receipt, checksum and conditions; request separate image/publication permission if needed.", "source_ids": [ "catalogue", "imaging" ] }, { "id": "mingana-images", "title": "Mingana 560 / selected manuscript images", "case": "birm-20261105", "state": "Scope and estimate needed", "files": "No new manuscript image order received through this investigation.", "reading": "Study-copy route exists, subject to institutional conditions.", "public_use": "A separate publication/sharing request is required; permission is not recorded.", "cost": "Public imaging tariff exists; an item-specific total is not yet quoted. No order placed.", "next": "Select exact folios and obtain cost and reuse conditions before ordering.", "source_ids": [ "imaging" ] }, { "id": "giants", "title": "Stuckenbruck · The Book of Giants from Qumran", "case": "giants-publisher", "state": "Edition located · access needed", "files": "No full edition acquired through the correspondence.", "reading": "Publisher offered institutional-library access; no individual research/review access offered.", "public_use": "No full-text redistribution right recorded. Reading access is not publication permission.", "cost": "A private institutional-licence quote is recorded in the internal review; it is not an individual purchase recommendation.", "next": "Check a participating library or document-supply route before any purchase.", "source_ids": [ "giants-publisher", "giants-lmu" ] }, { "id": "mulapin", "title": "Hunger and Steele · MUL.APIN", "case": "mulapin-publisher", "state": "Licensed reader route identified", "files": "No standalone PDF/ePub supplied; no full edition acquired through this request.", "reading": "Publisher correspondence identifies a VitalSource Bookshelf retail reading route.", "public_use": "No right to place the complete eBook in a public or private shared database established.", "cost": "No current item-specific price verified; no purchase placed.", "next": "Check library access and confirm format/licence before considering purchase.", "source_ids": [ "routledge" ] }, { "id": "brill", "title": "Genesis Apocryphon / New Damascus Document editions", "case": "brill-publisher", "state": "Routing details unresolved", "files": "No new full edition received.", "reading": "Publisher requested location details to route the original inquiry.", "public_use": "No full-text or image republication permission recorded.", "cost": "No quote received and no order placed.", "next": "Request self-service links or minimum routing details without supplying a private postal address.", "source_ids": [] }, { "id": "cambridge", "title": "Cairo Genizah · T-S 10K6 and T-S 16.311", "case": "cam-20261105", "state": "Public source routes supplied", "files": "Institution-hosted catalogue and image routes; no new private attachment.", "reading": "Consult the public records and linked image/IIIF services.", "public_use": "Check each record’s rights and standard permissions channel before reproducing images.", "cost": "No new charge recorded through the inquiry.", "next": "Use existing records for a narrow passage concordance; route rights questions to the standard service.", "source_ids": [ "cambridge-a", "cambridge-b" ] } ], "revision_log": [ { "date": "2026-11-07", "change": "First structured author, copy, discovery, dating-method, translation and three-slot evidence pilot. Older dating assessments retain their dates; unanswered questions and private/public rights remain explicit." }, { "date": "2026-11-09", "change": "Traced 4Q201/4Q338 sample P904-Fr009, laboratory codes, published disjoint calibration ranges and treatment report. Added recto/verso context, a claim with three evidence roles, and explicit image/edition and recovery limits." }, { "date": "2026-11-09", "change": "Located plate 904 fragment 9 image B-366868; compared it with Langlois fragment 2 photographs and checked the French rendering. Added historical photographic references, later publication history, distinct language coverage and a provisional concordance; focused IAA follow-up sent." }, { "date": "2026-11-09", "note": "Added distinct 4Q208 and 4Q209 histories, selected English calendar excerpts and a historical 4Q208 material result; letter correspondences remain Babylon’s interpretation." } ] }