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"well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "arch-destruction-70", "claim": "The Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 CE is multiply attested (Josephus; archaeological burn/destruction layers; Roman triumph iconography such as the Arch of Titus spoils relief).", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "arch-galilee-boat", "claim": "The “Jesus Boat” (first-century Galilee boat, discovered 1986) illustrates fishing technology on the lake in the Early Roman period.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave4.ts" }, { "id": "arch-gamla", "claim": "Gamla (Golan) destruction in the First Jewish Revolt is archaeologically and literarily documented (Josephus), illustrating Galilee/Golan war archaeology.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": 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"arch-masada", "claim": "Masada’s archaeology confirms a First Jewish Revolt–period fortress with Roman siege works; Josephus’s mass-suicide narrative is only partly controllable by material remains.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "arch-nazareth", "claim": "Nazareth existed as a small Jewish settlement in the Early Roman period; monumental first-century remains are limited.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "arch-ossuaries-practice", "claim": "Secondary burial in limestone ossuaries is archaeologically well attested in late Second Temple Jerusalem and environs (roughly late 1st c. 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"proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "arch-talpiot", "claim": "Talpiot “Jesus family tomb” statistical and onomastic claims are speculative and rejected by most specialists as identification of the New Testament Jesus.", "tier": "speculative", "proofVsConcept": "tradition", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "arch-tiberias", "claim": "Tiberias, founded by Antipas on the Sea of Galilee, is archaeologically and literarily documented as a Herodian urban center.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave11.ts" }, { "id": "arch-titus", "claim": "1 Clement (usually dated late 1st c.) attests early Roman Christian leadership correspondence and cites Jesus traditions and Pauline letters as authoritative.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "arch-yehohanan", "claim": "The crucified remains of Yehohanan son of Hagkol (Giv‘at ha-Mivtar) provide osteological evidence of Roman crucifixion practice in Judea (nail through heel bone).", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "arch-yodefat", "claim": "Yodefat (Jotapata) siege archaeology correlates with Josephus’s First Revolt narrative and illustrates Galilean war destruction layers.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave13.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-acoustic-scale", "claim": "The angular scale of the CMB acoustic peaks (θ_*) tightly constrains the angular diameter distance to recombination in flat ΛCDM.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave20.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-age", "claim": "Under Planck 2018 ΛCDM parameters, the universe age is approximately 13.8 billion years.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-bao", "claim": "Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measured in large-scale galaxy surveys provide an independent standard-ruler constraint on the expansion history within ΛCDM.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-bbn", "claim": "Primordial abundances of light elements (⁴He, D, ³He, ⁷Li) are broadly consistent with Big Bang nucleosynthesis predictions.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-big-bang-nucleosynthesis-d", "claim": "Primordial deuterium abundance measurements tightly constrain the baryon density in standard BBN, aligning with CMB-inferred Ω_b.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave17.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-cmb", "claim": "The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a near-isotropic blackbody at T ≈ 2.725 K, consistent with a hot early universe.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-cmb-polarization", "claim": "CMB polarization (E-modes; B-mode searches) provides independent cosmological information beyond temperature anisotropies alone.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave13.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-cmb-power", "claim": "The CMB angular power spectrum exhibits acoustic peaks whose positions and amplitudes constrain baryon density, dark matter density, and curvature in ΛCDM fits.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-dark-energy", "claim": "Type Ia supernova surveys (1990s–present) established late-time accelerated expansion, modeled in ΛCDM as a cosmological-constant / dark-energy component.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": 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physical parameters appear finely constrained for complex chemistry; teleological interpretation is philosophical, not a scientific conclusion of this Record.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-flatness", "claim": "Spatial curvature is consistent with flat geometry (Ω_k ≈ 0) within ΛCDM fits to CMB and BAO data.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave18.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-hubble-tension", "claim": "The Hubble tension denotes a statistically significant discrepancy between early-universe (CMB-inferred) and some late-universe local H₀ measurements.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-inflation-status", "claim": "Cosmic inflation is the leading early-universe paradigm for flatness and horizon problems; direct detection of primordial B-mode 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}, { "id": "cosmo-recombination", "claim": "CMB photons free-stream from the surface of last scattering at recombination (~z ≈ 1090 in standard ΛCDM).", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave5.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-reionization", "claim": "CMB optical depth and high-z galaxy surveys constrain the epoch of reionization when the first stars ionized the intergalactic medium.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave15.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-sound-horizon", "claim": "The sound horizon at recombination sets the BAO standard-ruler scale used in late-universe distance measurements.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave14.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-structure-formation", "claim": "Large-scale structure (galaxy clustering, weak lensing) provides independent ΛCDM tests complementary to the CMB and BAO.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave9.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-supernova-ia", "claim": "Type Ia supernovae as standardizable candles mapped late-time acceleration and remain a core distance-ladder tool alongside BAO and CMB.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave19.ts" }, { "id": "cosmo-weak-lensing", "claim": "Weak gravitational lensing maps the projected mass distribution of the universe and constrains S8/σ8 amplitude parameters in ΛCDM fits.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave16.ts" }, { "id": "ec-1clement", "claim": "1 Clement (usually dated late 1st c.) attests early Roman Christian leadership correspondence and cites Jesus traditions and Pauline letters as authoritative.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "ec-apostolic-fathers", "claim": "The Apostolic Fathers (1 Clement, Didache, Ignatius, Polycarp, etc.) provide early non-NT Christian primary sources.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "ec-aristides", "claim": "The Apology of Aristides (2nd c.) is an early Christian apology preserved in Syriac/Greek traditions describing Christian ethics to a Roman audience.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave14.ts" }, { "id": "ec-athanasius", "claim": "Athanasius, 39th Festal Letter (367 CE), lists the exact 27-book New Testament canon later ratified in the West.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "ec-barnabas", "claim": "The Epistle of Barnabas (late 1st / early 2nd c.) allegorizes Hebrew Bible law and shows early Christian supersessionist interpretation.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave11.ts" }, { "id": "ec-didache", "claim": "The Didache preserves an early Christian “two ways” ethic, baptismal and eucharistic instructions, and itinerant ministry rules — dating commonly late 1st / early 2nd c.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave4.ts" }, { "id": "ec-diognetus", "claim": "The Epistle to Diognetus (2nd/3rd c.?) is an early Christian apology describing Christian life as a civic “soul of the world.”", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave16.ts" }, { "id": "ec-eusebius-he", "claim": "Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History (early 4th c.) is a foundational but tendentious narrative source for earlier Christian writers, martyrdoms, and canon discussions.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave7.ts" }, { "id": "ec-gospel-harmony", "claim": "Tatian’s Diatessaron (late 2nd c.) harmonized the four Gospels into a single narrative widely used in Syriac Christianity — evidence of early fourfold Gospel prestige and of textual fluidity in use.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "ec-gospel-thomas", "claim": "The Gospel of Thomas (Nag Hammadi) is a sayings gospel whose dating and dependence on canonical Gospels are contested.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "ec-ignatius", "claim": "Ignatius of Antioch’s letters (early 2nd c., authenticity of middle recension majority) show monepiscopacy advocacy and high Christological language in transit to martyrdom.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave4.ts" }, { "id": "ec-ignatius-letters", "claim": "Ignatius of Antioch’s letters (early 2nd c., middle recension) document episcopal structure and early christological confessions en route to martyrdom.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave19.ts" }, { "id": "ec-irenaeus", "claim": "Irenaeus (c. 180 CE) argues for a fourfold Gospel (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) against alternative gospel usages.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "ec-justin-apology", "claim": "Justin Martyr’s First Apology (mid-2nd c.) describes Christian worship, “memoirs of the apostles,” and defends Christians before a Roman audience.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "ec-justin-dialogue", "claim": "Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho engages Jewish-Christian scriptural argument in the mid-2nd century.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave20.ts" }, { "id": "ec-marcion", "claim": "Marcion of Sinope (mid-2nd century) promulgated a reduced Gospel+Paul collection, prompting proto-orthodox canon and theological responses.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "ec-martyrdom-polycarp", "claim": "The Martyrdom of Polycarp (mid-2nd c. traditions) is an early Christian martyr narrative shaping later hagiography.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave15.ts" }, { "id": "ec-melito-passover", "claim": "Melito of Sardis’s Peri Pascha (2nd c.) is an early Christian paschal homily with high christology and anti-Jewish rhetoric — reception history, not HJ primary data.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave9.ts" }, { "id": "ec-melito-passover-pascha", "claim": "Melito’s Peri Pascha links Passover typology to Jesus’ passion in a high christology — second-century reception, not first-century reportage.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave17.ts" }, { "id": "ec-muratorian", "claim": "The Muratorian Fragment is an early (often 2nd-century, date contested) Latin canon list showing a nearly formed but not identical NT collection.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "ec-nicaea", "claim": "The Council of Nicaea (325 CE) addressed Christological doctrine (homoousios) under Constantine; it did not create the NT canon list.", "tier": "literary_theological", "proofVsConcept": "tradition", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "ec-origen-hexapla", "claim": "Origen’s Hexapla (3rd c.) arranged Hebrew and Greek OT columns for comparative textual work — early Christian engagement with pluriform scriptural text.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave7.ts" }, { "id": "ec-papias", "claim": "Papias of Hierapolis (early 2nd c.), preserved in fragments via Eusebius, offers early traditions about Mark and Matthew’s composition — valuable and debated.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave12.ts" }, { "id": "ec-polycarp", "claim": "Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians (mid-2nd c.) cites or alludes to multiple NT writings and shows early reception of Pauline and Gospel traditions.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave8.ts" }, { "id": "ec-quadratus", "claim": "Quadratus’s apology (early 2nd c.), preserved in fragment via Eusebius, claims some healed/raised by Jesus lived into later times — early apologetic tradition, not contemporary medical record.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave13.ts" }, { "id": "ec-shepherd-hermas", "claim": "The Shepherd of Hermas (2nd c.) was widely read and sometimes treated as scripture in some churches, illustrating fluid early canons.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave10.ts" }, { "id": "ec-shepherd-hermas-canon", "claim": "The Shepherd of Hermas appears in some early canon lists and Codex Sinaiticus, illustrating fluid boundaries of authoritative Christian reading.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave18.ts" }, { "id": "ec-update-triggers", "claim": "This Record’s perpetual update triggers include: new major papyri/majuscule publications, INTF Liste changes, peer-reviewed dig reports, and material consensus shifts in historical Jesus research.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "hj-apocalyptic", "claim": "Whether Jesus is best reconstructed as primarily apocalyptic prophet (Schweitzer trajectory) or sapiential/ethical teacher remains a major scholarly divide.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave5.ts" }, { "id": "hj-appearances", "claim": "Early Christian proclamation included claims of post-crucifixion appearances to individuals and groups (1 Cor 15:3–8); the nature of those experiences is not scientifically settled.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "hj-baptism", "claim": "Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist is widely judged historical under the criterion of embarrassment and multiple attestation.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "hj-bethlehem", "claim": "Bethlehem birth is narrated in Matthew and Luke with divergent infancy stories; historical verification is contested, while Nazareth association is stronger.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "hj-caiaphas", "claim": "An ossuary inscribed “Yehosef bar Qayafa” (discovered 1990) is widely identified with the high-priestly family of Caiaphas.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "hj-criteria-limits", "claim": "Classical authenticity criteria (multiple attestation, embarrassment, dissimilarity) are heuristic tools with known biases; they do not yield laboratory-grade “proof” of individual sayings.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "hj-criterion-coherence", "claim": "Coherence criteria ask whether a proposed saying/deed fits a reconstructed core portrait of Jesus; the method is circular if the core is itself unstable.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave7.ts" }, { "id": "hj-crucifixion", "claim": "Crucifixion of Jesus under Pontius Pilate (prefect of Judea c. 26–36 CE) is multiply attested and coheres with Roman practice.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "hj-crucifixion-year", "claim": "Crucifixion year is commonly constrained to c. 30–33 CE by Pilate’s tenure (26–36), Passover weekday arguments, and astronomical full-moon tables — exact year remains debated.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "hj-disciples-twelve", "claim": "A circle of close followers including a group remembered as “the Twelve” is multiply attested; exact membership lists vary slightly across Gospels.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave11.ts" }, { "id": "hj-empty-tomb", "claim": "Empty-tomb narratives appear in the canonical Gospels with differences; whether an empty tomb is historical is debated; early creed in 1 Cor 15 emphasizes appearances more than tomb logistics.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "hj-existence", "claim": "The existence of Jesus of Nazareth as a first-century Jewish man is the near-consensus position of critical historians of antiquity.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "hj-exorcism-reputation", "claim": "Exorcism / spirit-expulsion is multiply attested as a public activity associated with Jesus in Synoptic tradition and is treated by many historians as a characteristic reputation.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave13.ts" }, { "id": "hj-family-rejection", "claim": "Traditions of family misunderstanding or tension (Mark 3; John 7) are often cited under the criterion of embarrassment as unlikely free invention by later church idealization.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "hj-gal2-conflict", "claim": "Galatians 2 records a conflict between Paul and Cephas (Peter) at Antioch over table fellowship with gentiles — primary evidence of diversity and dispute in the earliest movement.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "hj-galilee-aramaic", "claim": "Aramaic is widely reconstructed as a primary spoken language of Jesus and Galilean Jewish communities, with Hebrew and Greek also present.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave18.ts" }, { "id": "hj-galilee-context", "claim": "Early Roman Galilee included agricultural villages, fishing economy on the lake, and nearby urban centers such as Sepphoris and Tiberias.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "hj-galilee-economy", "claim": "Galilee under Antipas was an agrarian and fishing economy with urbanization at Sepphoris and Tiberias; Jesus traditions sit in that social landscape.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave9.ts" }, { "id": "hj-healings-reputation", "claim": "Healing activity is multiply attested as part of Jesus’ public reputation in Synoptic tradition; historians often accept a healing reputation while bracketing modern medical ontologies.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave16.ts" }, { "id": "hj-herod-death", "claim": "The death of Herod the Great is conventionally dated to 4 BCE (with minority arguments for 1 BCE / other), anchoring the latest plausible nativity window in Matthew’s framework.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "hj-james-leadership", "claim": "James the brother of Jesus is attested as a Jerusalem leadership figure (Paul; Acts; Josephus Ant. 20.200) until his death c. 62 CE.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "hj-jerusalem-pilgrimage", "claim": "Pilgrimage to Jerusalem for festivals is a well-attested Second Temple practice providing social context for Gospel Jerusalem scenes.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave17.ts" }, { "id": "hj-jewishness-consensus", "claim": "Mainstream historical Jesus research treats Jesus as a first-century Jew operating within Second Temple Judaism, not as a later Gentile construct.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave10.ts" }, { "id": "hj-john-baptist-movement", "claim": "John the Baptist is multiply attested (Josephus Ant. 18; Synoptics; Johannine tradition) as an independent purification/repentance preacher executed by Herod Antipas.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "hj-john-baptizer-independence", "claim": "John the Baptist is treated as an independent prophetic figure in Josephus and the Gospels, not a mere literary foil invented de novo.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave20.ts" }, { "id": "hj-kingdom-proclamation", "claim": "A core historical judgment across diverse scholars is that Jesus proclaimed God’s kingdom / reign as central to his public activity.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave4.ts" }, { "id": "hj-language", "claim": "Jesus likely spoke Aramaic as a primary vernacular; Greek exposure in Galilee is plausible; Hebrew literacy/use is debated for the population stratum.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "hj-literacy", "claim": "Literacy rates in Early Roman Judea/Galilee were limited relative to modern norms; most people encountered texts orally and through specialists.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "hj-magi-star", "claim": "Magi and star narratives in Matthew 2 are literary-theological traditions; astronomical “explanations” are speculative correlations, not historical proof.", "tier": "literary_theological", "proofVsConcept": "tradition", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "hj-meal-practice", "claim": "Shared meals / table fellowship appear as a distinctive social practice in Synoptic traditions and are widely treated as historically characteristic of Jesus’ movement.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave8.ts" }, { "id": "hj-miracles-method", "claim": "Miracle narratives are not historically “verified” under naturalistic historical method; historians can study reports, meanings, and social effects of wonder-traditions.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "hj-parables", "claim": "Parables form a characteristic teaching form in the Synoptic tradition and are widely treated as a historically distinctive feature of Jesus’ public speech.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave5.ts" }, { "id": "hj-pauline-chronology", "claim": "Pauline absolute chronology is reconstructed from Acts, the letters, and external anchors (Gallio inscription at Delphi); competing schemes (Ramsay, Knox, Hyldahl, et al.) differ by several years.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "hj-peter-rome", "claim": "Peter’s presence and martyrdom in Rome are early traditions (1 Clement; later Acts of Peter) with varying historical confidence; New Testament itself does not narrate a Roman martyrdom.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "hj-pilate-stone", "claim": "The Pilate Stone (Caesarea Maritima, 1961) independently attests Pontius Pilate as prefect of Judea.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "hj-prayer-abba", "claim": "The address “Abba” in Mark 14:36 and Pauline usage (Rom 8:15; Gal 4:6) is often cited in debates about Jesus’ prayer language; over-claims about uniqueness are contested.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave12.ts" }, { "id": "hj-prophetic-actions", "claim": "Symbolic prophetic actions (e.g., Temple demonstration) are a recognized category in historical Jesus research for interpreting public deeds.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave19.ts" }, { "id": "hj-q-hypothesis", "claim": "The Two-Source Hypothesis posits Markan priority plus a sayings source “Q” behind Matthew and Luke; Q remains a scholarly reconstruction without a surviving manuscript.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave7.ts" }, { "id": "hj-quirinius", "claim": "Luke’s census notice linking Jesus’ birth to a registration under Quirinius (6 CE) is a classic chronological problem relative to a Herodian birth before 4 BCE.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "hj-resurrection-hist", "claim": "Claims of bodily resurrection are theological assertions; historians can document early belief and proclamation, not laboratory verification of the event.", "tier": "literary_theological", "proofVsConcept": "tradition", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "hj-romans-execution", "claim": "Crucifixion was a Roman capital punishment method used in Judea; archaeological and literary controls exist independent of the Gospels (e.g., Yehohanan heel bone; Josephus).", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave8.ts" }, { "id": "hj-sabbath-conflicts", "claim": "Sabbath controversy traditions are multiply attested in Synoptics and are widely treated as historically characteristic conflict settings for Jesus’ public activity.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave14.ts" }, { "id": "hj-table-fellowship", "claim": "Traditions of Jesus’ open table fellowship with “sinners” and tax collectors are widely treated as historically plausible under embarrassment and multiple attestation.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave4.ts" }, { "id": "hj-tax-collectors", "claim": "Association with tax collectors / toll collectors is multiply attested and often treated as historically characteristic of Jesus’ social practice (table fellowship theme).", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave15.ts" }, { "id": "hj-temple-action", "claim": "An action by Jesus in the Temple (disruption of commerce / symbolic demonstration) is multiply attested; interpretation ranges from prophetic sign to failed revolt cue.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave4.ts" }, { "id": "hj-titles", "claim": "Titles applied to Jesus (Messiah/Christ, Son of Man, Son of God, Lord) have layered historical and literary-theological histories; none should be treated as a single unproblematic first-century label without analysis.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave4.ts" }, { "id": "hj-women-movement", "claim": "Early Christian sources name women as patrons, witnesses, and coworkers (e.g., Mary Magdalene traditions; Romans 16 co-workers); social roles are historically reconstructable within limits.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "mod-contextual-credibility", "claim": "Contextual credibility / historical plausibility criteria ask whether a tradition fits first-century Jewish Palestine — necessary but not sufficient for authenticity.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave13.ts" }, { "id": "mod-criteria-coherence-limits", "claim": "Coherence criteria risk circularity: they test sayings against a reconstructed “core Jesus” that itself depends on prior authentications.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave15.ts" }, { "id": "mod-criteria-critique", "claim": "Classical criteria of authenticity (embarrassment, dissimilarity, multiple attestation) are historiographical tools with known biases; recent memory and social approaches revise their use.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "mod-criteria-embarrassment", "claim": "The criterion of embarrassment is a heuristic, not a proof algorithm; it can be misapplied when later communities reframe “embarrassing” material.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave4.ts" }, { "id": "mod-criteria-multiple-attestation-practice", "claim": "Multiple independent attestation remains a practical confidence-boosting tool when streams are truly independent (Mark, special Matthew/Luke, John, Paul, non-Christian).", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave19.ts" }, { "id": "mod-criterion-dissimilarity-limits", "claim": "Double dissimilarity (unlike Judaism and early Church) is widely criticized as historically implausible and theologically loaded.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave17.ts" }, { "id": "mod-criterion-embarrassment-limits", "claim": "The criterion of embarrassment is heuristic and circular if “embarrassing” is defined by later Christian theology rather than first-century Jewish context.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave11.ts" }, { "id": "mod-critical-editions", "claim": "NA28/UBS5 (and ongoing ECM/INTF work) are the standard working critical texts of the Greek NT for academic use.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "mod-digital-dss", "claim": "The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library enables open inspection of high-resolution plate images for many Qumran manuscripts.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave4.ts" }, { "id": "mod-form-criticism-limits", "claim": "Form criticism classifies Gospel units by genre and Sitz im Leben; its older assumption of pure oral isolation before writing is now heavily qualified.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave14.ts" }, { "id": "mod-genetics-limits", "claim": "Ancient DNA of the Southern Levant informs regional demographic history; it cannot identify named New Testament individuals or prove specific genealogies in the Gospels.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "mod-gospel-genre-bios", "claim": "Many scholars classify the Gospels as a form of ancient biography (bios) with flexible historical conventions rather than modern historiography.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave20.ts" }, { "id": "mod-historical-jesus-quests", "claim": "“Quests” for the historical Jesus are historiographical programs with shifting criteria; no single reconstruction commands universal assent.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "mod-jesus-seminar", "claim": "The Jesus Seminar (1980s–2000s) popularized colored-bead voting on sayings authenticity; its methods and conclusions remain highly contested in the guild.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave8.ts" }, { "id": "mod-living-text", "claim": "“Living text” models (e.g., Parker) emphasize early Christian textual fluidity and community use rather than a single frozen original always recoverable.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave10.ts" }, { "id": "mod-memory-approach", "claim": "Social/collective memory approaches reconstruct how groups remembered Jesus rather than claiming verbatim ipsissima verba recovery.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "mod-memory-distortion", "claim": "Social memory research emphasizes both conservation and distortion in group remembering — neither pure invention nor pure stenography.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave16.ts" }, { "id": "mod-multiple-attestation-limits", "claim": "Multiple attestation increases historical confidence when sources are independent; Synoptic dependence and shared traditions limit independence assumptions.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave12.ts" }, { "id": "mod-mythicism-fringe", "claim": "Full mythicism (Jesus of Nazareth as entirely non-historical) remains a fringe position in mainstream historical scholarship of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "mod-na28-ubs5", "claim": "Nestle-Aland 28 and UBS5 are the standard working critical Greek NT editions for most academic exegesis; their apparatus documents selected variants, not every known reading.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "mod-open-access-trend", "claim": "Open digital libraries (INTF NT.VMR, IAA DSS, British Library codices) have lowered barriers to primary manuscript inspection since the 2010s.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave5.ts" }, { "id": "mod-open-data-ethics", "claim": "Modern digital manuscript projects raise access, conservation, provenance, and citation-ethics issues distinct from the content of any single reading.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "mod-population-genetics", "claim": "Population genetics of the Levant documents deep regional continuity with admixture layers; it does not identify individuals named in ancient texts.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "mod-print-gutenberg", "claim": "Print culture from Gutenberg onward multiplied biblical text access and stabilized vernacular canons — a reception-historical fact separate from first-century origins.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "mod-radiocarbon-dss", "claim": "Radiocarbon dating of selected Dead Sea Scrolls supports late Second Temple copy ranges broadly consistent with paleography.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "science_model", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "mod-social-memory", "claim": "Social memory approaches treat Gospel traditions as communal remembering under social constraints rather than pure invention or pure stenography.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave7.ts" }, { "id": "mod-textus-receptus", "claim": "The Textus Receptus tradition (Erasmus onward) underlies early modern vernacular Bibles but is not the base text of modern critical editions (NA/UBS).", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "mod-third-quest", "claim": "The “Third Quest” emphasizes Jesus’ Jewish context (Sanders, Vermes, Meier, Wright, Crossan, et al.) against earlier de-Judaizing portraits.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave9.ts" }, { "id": "mod-third-quest-jewishness", "claim": "Third Quest scholarship insists Jesus must be understood within Second Temple Judaism rather than against it — a methodological consensus across many schools.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave18.ts" }, { "id": "mod-turin-shroud", "claim": "The Shroud of Turin is a medieval relic by mainstream radiocarbon dating (1988); authenticity as first-century burial cloth remains speculative/unverified for historical Jesus studies.", "tier": "speculative", "proofVsConcept": "tradition", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "mod-war-70", "claim": "The Jewish-Roman War culminating in the 70 CE destruction of the Temple is a primary historical horizon for dating and interpreting the Synoptic Gospels.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "nc-celsus", "claim": "Celsus (2nd c.), preserved mainly via Origen’s Contra Celsum, is an early pagan critic who treats Jesus as a historical magician/charlatan figure rather than a mythic non-entity.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "nc-celsus-virgin", "claim": "Celsus (via Origen) preserves a hostile Jewish/pagan counter-narrative about Jesus’ birth involving panthera traditions — reception of controversy, not primary birth documentation.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave20.ts" }, { "id": "nc-epictetus-christians", "claim": "Epictetus (via Arrian) may allude to Christians as fearless under threat — thin and debated philosophical notice of a social type.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave18.ts" }, { "id": "nc-galen-christians", "claim": "Galen (2nd c.) makes brief remarks on Christians as a philosophical school/sect — hostile/neutral medical-philosopher notice of a known group.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave15.ts" }, { "id": "nc-james", "claim": "Josephus, Antiquities 20.200 refers to “the brother of Jesus who is called Christ, James” in the account of Ananus’s execution of James — generally judged authentic.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "nc-lucian", "claim": "Lucian of Samosata (2nd c.) satirizes Christians and refers to their crucified sophist in Passing of Peregrinus — evidence of known Christian devotion, not independent biography.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "nc-lucian-alexander", "claim": "Lucian’s Alexander the False Prophet satirizes cult founders and miracle claims in the second century — comparative evidence for how elites mocked religious innovators.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave19.ts" }, { "id": "nc-lucian-peregrinus", "claim": "Lucian of Samosata (2nd c.) satirizes Christians in The Passing of Peregrinus, treating Christ as a crucified “sophist” founder of a cult.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave12.ts" }, { "id": "nc-mara", "claim": "The Syriac letter of Mara bar Serapion mentions a “wise king” executed by the Jews; identification with Jesus is possible but not certain.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "nc-mara-bar-serapion", "claim": "The Mara bar Serapion letter (Syriac; date debated, often 1st–3rd c.) may allude to a “wise king” of the Jews executed by his people — identification with Jesus is uncertain.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave9.ts" }, { "id": "nc-marcus-aurelius-christians", "claim": "Marcus Aurelius (Meditations) and second-century elite literature occasionally notice Christians as a social type; such notices are thin and polemical.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave16.ts" }, { "id": "nc-martial-juvenes", "claim": "No contemporary Roman historian from Jesus’ lifetime mentions him; the earliest non-Christian literary controls (Josephus, Tacitus, Pliny) are decades later.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave7.ts" }, { "id": "nc-pliny", "claim": "Pliny the Younger, Epistles 10.96–97, describes early second-century Christian worship practices in Bithynia-Pontus and imperial policy under Trajan.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "nc-pliny-christians", "claim": "Pliny the Younger’s letter to Trajan (Ep. 10.96) describes early 2nd-century Bithynian Christians worshiping Christ “as a god” and legal policy toward them.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave10.ts" }, { "id": "nc-suetonius", "claim": "Suetonius, Claudius 25.4, refers to disturbances in Rome impulsore Chresto — often discussed as a possible garbled reference to Christ-related conflict, but identification is uncertain.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "nc-suetonius-chrestus", "claim": "Suetonius (Claudius 25) mentions disturbances in Rome under Claudius involving “Chrestus” — identification with Christ/Christians is possible but contested.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave11.ts" }, { "id": "nc-tacitus", "claim": "Tacitus, Annals 15.44 reports that “Christus” was executed under Tiberius by the procurator Pontius Pilate and that the movement originated in Judea.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "nc-tacitus-context", "claim": "Tacitus Annals 15.44 places Christus’s execution under Tiberius by procurator Pontius Pilate within a Nero-era persecution narrative.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave13.ts" }, { "id": "nc-tacitus-latin", "claim": "Tacitus Annals 15.44 (Latin) states that Christus suffered the extreme penalty under Tiberius by sentence of procurator Pontius Pilate, and that the superstitio arose in Judea.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "nc-talmud", "claim": "Certain Babylonian Talmud passages are sometimes read as hostile allusions to Jesus; dating, redaction, and identification are highly contested and often late.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "nc-talmud-baraita-caution", "claim": "Isolated Talmudic baraitot sometimes linked to Jesus are late, polemical, and methodologically unsafe as first-century biography without extreme caution.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave14.ts" }, { "id": "nc-talmud-dating", "claim": "Rabbinic passages sometimes linked to Jesus (e.g., b. Sanhedrin traditions) are late, layered, and methodologically hazardous as first-century biography.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave8.ts" }, { "id": "nc-tf", "claim": "Josephus, Antiquities 18.63–64 (Testimonium Flavianum) is widely judged partly authentic with Christian interpolations; fully authentic and fully forged positions are minorities.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "nc-tf-reconstructions", "claim": "Major scholarly reconstructions of the Testimonium Flavianum range from a short neutral core to more expansive partial authenticity; wholesale authenticity and wholesale forgery are minority poles.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "nc-thallus-phlegon", "claim": "Later Christian authors cite Thallus and Phlegon regarding a darkness or eclipse around the time of the crucifixion; the original works are lost and the citations are mediated.", "tier": "circumstantial", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "nc-traject-pliny-trajan", "claim": "Trajan’s rescript to Pliny (Ep. 10.97) sets a legal policy: do not hunt Christians, punish only if proven and obstinate — Roman administrative evidence for early 2nd-c. policy.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave17.ts" }, { "id": "nt-byzantine-priority", "claim": "Byzantine-priority / majority-text theories remain minority positions in mainstream critical editions, which generally prefer early diverse witnesses over later numerical majority alone.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave8.ts" }, { "id": "nt-codex-alexandrinus", "claim": "Codex Alexandrinus (A 02, 5th c.) is a major early nearly complete Greek Bible witness held by the British Library.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave5.ts" }, { "id": "nt-comma-johanneum", "claim": "The Comma Johanneum (1 John 5:7–8 Trinitarian expansion in some later Latin/Textus Receptus traditions) is absent from the earliest Greek manuscript tradition and is treated as secondary in modern critical editions.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave7.ts" }, { "id": "nt-continuous-text-vs-lectionary", "claim": "Continuous-text manuscripts and lectionaries serve different liturgical and scholarly roles; critical editions weight continuous early witnesses more heavily for initial text.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave18.ts" }, { "id": "nt-ecm-method", "claim": "The Editio Critica Maior (ECM) and the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) model manuscript relationships as a guided stemmatic network rather than a simple bipartite Alexandrian/Byzantine tree.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "nt-ending-mark", "claim": "The longer ending of Mark (16:9–20) is absent from the earliest major Greek witnesses (ℵ B) and is treated in critical editions as secondary, while shorter alternative endings also exist.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "nt-eusebius-ch", "claim": "Eusebius’s Church History is an indispensable but tendentious fourth-century source for earlier Christian literature and martyrdoms; source-critical caution is mandatory.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "nt-family-1-13", "claim": "Medieval Greek manuscript families (e.g., Family 1, Family 13) show structured textual relationships useful for genealogical criticism beyond simple “majority count.”", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave13.ts" }, { "id": "nt-gospel-dates", "claim": "Critical consensus commonly dates Mark c. 65–75 CE, Matthew and Luke c. 80–90 CE, John c. 90–100 CE — with debate bands around each.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "nt-harmonie-readings", "claim": "Harmonization among Synoptic parallels is a recognized scribal tendency that can produce secondary agreements in later manuscripts.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave11.ts" }, { "id": "nt-homoeoteleuton", "claim": "Many NT variants arise from ordinary scribal mechanics (homoeoteleuton, dittography, orthography), not theological conspiracy.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave4.ts" }, { "id": "nt-initial-text-vs-autograph", "claim": "Modern critical editions target an initial text (Ausgangstext) that may not be identical to a single authorial autograph in every book.", "tier": "interpretive", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave20.ts" }, { "id": "nt-itacism", "claim": "Itacism and vowel interchange are common Greek scribal phenomena that generate many orthographic variants without semantic change.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave15.ts" }, { "id": "nt-john-historicity", "claim": "John’s Gospel is generally dated later than the Synoptics; its independent historical value for Jesus research is debated (high Christology vs. early tradition cores).", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "nt-lectionaries", "claim": "Greek lectionary manuscripts form a large late witness class used in ECM/CBGM and traditional criticism for reception history more than for earliest text alone.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave8.ts" }, { "id": "nt-lectionary-evidence", "claim": "Lectionary manuscripts preserve liturgical text forms that can retain early readings in some units while generally reflecting later Byzantine dominance.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave14.ts" }, { "id": "nt-majuscules", "claim": "Fourth–fifth century majuscules (ℵ 01 Sinaiticus, A 02 Alexandrinus, B 03 Vaticanus, C 04 Ephraemi, D 05 Bezae) are foundational for the critical text.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "nt-mark-ending", "claim": "The longer ending of Mark (16:9–20) is absent from the earliest major witnesses (ℵ B) and is marked as secondary in NA28/UBS apparatuses.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "nt-ms-count", "claim": "Greek New Testament continuous-text manuscripts number on the order of several thousand, with additional lectionaries and versions.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "nt-nomina-sacra", "claim": "Nomina sacra abbreviations for divine names and titles are a distinctive early Christian scribal practice visible across Greek NT manuscripts.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave17.ts" }, { "id": "nt-origen-hexapla", "claim": "Origen’s Hexapla (3rd c.) arranged Hebrew and Greek columns for comparative Old Testament textual work — a landmark of ancient textual criticism.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "nt-orthodox-corruption", "claim": "Bart Ehrman’s “orthodox corruption” thesis argues some early scribes altered texts in christologically charged passages; magnitude and intent remain debated.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave9.ts" }, { "id": "nt-p45-p46-p47", "claim": "Chester Beatty papyri (P45, P46, P47) are major third-century witnesses to Gospels/Acts, Paul, and Revelation respectively.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "nt-p46-paul", "claim": "Papyrus P46 is among the earliest substantial collections of Pauline letters (typically dated late 2nd / early 3rd century CE).", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave5.ts" }, { "id": "nt-p52", "claim": "Papyrus P52 (Rylands Greek P 457) is among the earliest surviving NT fragments (John 18), paleographically dated roughly to the second century CE.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "nt-p66-p75", "claim": "Bodmer papyri P66 (John) and P75 (Luke/John) are major early substantial witnesses typically dated to the late 2nd / early 3rd century and foundational for early Alexandrian text studies.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "nt-patristic-citations", "claim": "Patristic citations are secondary witnesses that can preserve early readings but require careful evaluation of quoting habits and later manuscript tradition of the fathers.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave19.ts" }, { "id": "nt-paul-dates", "claim": "Undisputed Pauline letters are typically dated c. 49–58 CE and are the earliest surviving Christian literary corpus.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "reconstruction", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "nt-pericope-adulterae", "claim": "The pericope adulterae (John 7:53–8:11) is widely judged a later insertion on strong external manuscript grounds, though the story circulated early in the Latin and some Greek traditions.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "nt-scribal-habits", "claim": "Codicology and singular-reading studies document mechanical scribal habits (leaps, dittography, harmonization) that explain many variants without theological motive.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave10.ts" }, { "id": "nt-singular-readings", "claim": "Singular readings (unique to one MS) are used in scribal-habits studies to profile individual copyists without treating them as initial text.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave16.ts" }, { "id": "nt-synoptic-problem", "claim": "The Synoptic Problem (literary relationship of Matthew, Mark, Luke) remains an active field; Markan priority is majority, Q hypothesis is majority but contested by Farrer and other models.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "nt-textual-criticism", "claim": "Greek New Testament continuous-text manuscripts number on the order of several thousand, with additional lectionaries and versions.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "nt-variants", "claim": "Hundreds of thousands of variant readings exist across the tradition; the vast majority are orthographic or trivial, while a minority affect meaning.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "nt-versional-evidence", "claim": "Early versions (Old Latin, Syriac, Coptic) are independent textual witnesses that can preserve early readings not always visible in later Greek majority streams.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave12.ts" }, { "id": "nt-western-text", "claim": "The so-called Western text (e.g., Codex Bezae in Acts) often presents freer, paraphrastic readings that complicate simple Alexandrian/Byzantine dichotomies.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave7.ts" }, { "id": "st-alexander-jannaeus", "claim": "Alexander Jannaeus (Hasmonean king-priest) is documented in Josephus and coins; his reign illustrates internal Judean conflict before Roman dominance.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave15.ts" }, { "id": "st-antonia-fortress", "claim": "The Antonia Fortress adjacent to the Temple Mount is described by Josephus as a key Roman military foothold in Jerusalem.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave18.ts" }, { "id": "st-coinage-revolt", "claim": "Jewish revolt coinage (First Revolt 66–70 CE; Bar Kokhba 132–135 CE) provides dated material propaganda and economic evidence independent of Christian texts.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave7.ts" }, { "id": "st-community-rule", "claim": "Qumran sectarian texts (e.g., Community Rule 1QS, War Scroll 1QM, Pesharim) document a Jewish movement with distinctive purity, calendar, and eschatology in the late Second Temple period.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "st-dss", "claim": "Dead Sea Scrolls (discovered 1946–1956) preserve Hebrew Bible books and sectarian texts from roughly the third century BCE to first century CE.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "st-dss-books", "claim": "Among biblical DSS copies, Psalms, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Exodus, and Genesis are among the most frequently attested books; Esther is not securely attested at Qumran.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "st-elephantine", "claim": "Elephantine papyri document a Jewish military colony in Egypt (5th c. BCE) with a local temple of YHW and correspondence with Jerusalem/Samaria authorities.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave9.ts" }, { "id": "st-hasmonean-period", "claim": "The Hasmonean period (2nd–1st c. BCE) established Jewish political autonomy later dismantled under Roman client and provincial rule — essential pre-history for first-century Judea.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave12.ts" }, { "id": "st-herod-antipas", "claim": "Herod Antipas ruled Galilee and Perea as tetrarch (4 BCE–39 CE); Josephus and coins document his rule and cities (Tiberias; Sepphoris reconstruction).", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave11.ts" }, { "id": "st-herod-great-death", "claim": "Herod the Great’s death is commonly dated 4 BCE (with minority 1 BCE arguments), framing the terminus for Matthew’s birth narrative chronology.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave14.ts" }, { "id": "st-herod-temple", "claim": "Herod’s expansion of the Jerusalem Temple Mount is archaeologically and literarily documented (Josephus; Western Wall / Temple Mount retaining architecture).", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "st-isaiah-stability", "claim": "Comparison of 1QIsaᵃ (c. 2nd–1st century BCE) with the medieval Masoretic Text shows high overall agreement with mostly orthographic and minor variants.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "st-josephus-corpus", "claim": "Flavius Josephus (late first century CE) is a principal non-Christian Jewish historian for Herodian and early Roman Judea.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "st-lxx-textual", "claim": "The Septuagint often preserves readings that differ from the medieval Masoretic Text; some align with Qumran Hebrew witnesses.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave4.ts" }, { "id": "st-mikvaot", "claim": "Stepped ritual baths (miqva’ot) are archaeologically widespread in late Second Temple Judea and Galilee, evidencing purity practice infrastructure.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave5.ts" }, { "id": "st-mishnah-context", "claim": "The Mishnah (c. 200 CE redaction) and related Tannaitic literature preserve legal memory of Second Temple practice but are post-70 literary products requiring critical use for pre-70 reconstruction.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "st-parties", "claim": "Josephus and later rabbinic memory describe Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes as major Jewish schools; exact social demographics remain reconstructed.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristExtras.ts" }, { "id": "st-pharisees-josephus", "claim": "Josephus’s descriptions of Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes are primary but tendentious; social realities were more complex than three-school schemes.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave4.ts" }, { "id": "st-philo", "claim": "Philo of Alexandria provides contemporary diaspora Jewish philosophical and exegetical context for the early first century CE.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChrist.ts" }, { "id": "st-pompey-63", "claim": "Pompey’s intervention in Judea (63 BCE) brought Hasmonean civil conflict under Roman arbitration and began lasting Roman overlordship.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave13.ts" }, { "id": "st-prefecture", "claim": "Roman Judea after 6 CE was administered by equestrian prefects (later procurators) based primarily at Caesarea, with troops and judicial powers including capital cases in practice.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "st-roman-census-practices", "claim": "Roman provincial censuses and tax registrations are documented empire-wide; Luke’s census of Quirinius is a specific chronological crux relative to Herod’s death.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave16.ts" }, { "id": "st-roman-client-kings", "claim": "Rome governed Judea via client kings (Herod, Archelaus) and later equestrian prefects — dual administrative models shape Gospel political settings.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave19.ts" }, { "id": "st-salome-alexandra", "claim": "Salome Alexandra’s reign (Hasmonean queen) is documented in Josephus as a period of Pharisaic influence before dynastic collapse into Roman arbitration.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave17.ts" }, { "id": "st-samaria-papyri", "claim": "The Wadi Daliyeh (Samaria) papyri document mid-4th-century BCE legal/administrative life under late Persian / early Hellenistic rule in Samaria.", "tier": "verified", "proofVsConcept": "proof_grade_data", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave8.ts" }, { "id": "st-synagogue-origins", "claim": "The institutional origins and pre-70 function of “synagogues” remain debated; archaeological assembly buildings and literary references do not form a single simple type.", "tier": "contested", "proofVsConcept": "debate", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave6.ts" }, { "id": "st-temple-economy", "claim": "The Jerusalem Temple system involved tithes, offerings, and currency exchange for worshippers — a documented economic-religious complex in Josephus and later rabbinic memory.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave3.ts" }, { "id": "st-temple-tax", "claim": "The half-shekel Temple tax and related fiscal practices are documented in Josephus, Matthew 17 tradition, and later rabbinic memory.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave20.ts" }, { "id": "st-war-scroll", "claim": "The War Scroll (1QM) and related DSS texts depict eschatological battle ideology within a Second Temple Jewish sectarian milieu.", "tier": "well_attested", "proofVsConcept": "attested_report", "file": "src/data/recordOfJesusChristWave10.ts" } ] }