The revision sweeps in a lifetime

Status: Anticipated · untested

Status is derived only from the shepherd-authored triage/prediction data above -- community submissions and claims are a separate overlay and can never change it (see the participation panel below).

This is a proposed connection between two domains, generated by a language model. It is not an article and not evidence: it sits below the evidence/publication boundary. A quantitative prediction and a named kill-dataset are attached (when registered) so the claim stays falsifiable rather than merely evocative.

Claim (verbatim)

Around the year 1000, Georgian monks on Mount Athos — Euthymius, then George the Hagiorite — revised the Georgian Bible against the Greek. The claim: this centrally sanctioned revision displaced the older Georgian redactions at extraordinary speed, owning the majority of new Gospel production within roughly 75 years — far faster than the centuries Jerome's Vulgate needed against the Old Latin — because a small, hierarchically unified national church can enforce a text in ways sprawling Latin Christendom could not. Redaction turnover speed is therefore an index of ecclesial centralization. If it holds, comparative church governance can be measured from nothing but Gospel manuscript dates and redaction identifications, and Georgia becomes the calibration point for the fastest case.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

Primary clause (verdict follows it): among dated Georgian Gospel manuscripts, the crossover date after which more than half of new copies carry the Athonite redaction falls within 75 years of George's revision (before about 1140), and pre-Athonite redactions drop below 10% of new production within 150 years.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

Dated Georgian Gospel manuscripts in vHMML Reading Room's Sinai Georgian records (in-house) plus the published Tbilisi and Svaneti dated-manuscript catalogues, with redaction identities from the critical editions' witness lists.

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Provenance

Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5

Generated blind by claude-fable-5 in a single Write from the inline prompt and existing-title list alone, with no file reads, web access, database queries, or any other tool call.

Novelty / leakage triage

anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run

That George the Hagiorite's recension 'eventually dominated all other revisions' is established in Georgian textual criticism, and 11th-century Gospel manuscripts have been analyzed codicologically for the recension's formation; the 75-year crossover quantification and the ecclesial-centralization index are un-run.

'Codicological and Textological Analysis of 11th-Century Georgian Manuscripts of the Gospel and the History of Formation of Giorgi Athonite's Recension'

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