David Joab letter behind 2 Samuel 11
A reported letter from David to Joab carried by Uriah in 2 Samuel 11.
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A reported royal letter surface in the Uriah narrative.
This article describes an entity that is not directly attested as an extant recoverable letter; it is inferred from source-citation traces and should not be read as ordinary documentation of a surviving autograph.
Epistemic status
Draft article. 2 Samuel 11 gives direct letter language, but the independent letter object is not extant here.
Summary
2 Samuel 11 reports David writing a letter to Joab and sending it by Uriah. Inferpedia treats this as a bounded letter source surface in the Uriah narrative.
What is being inferred
The inferred entity is the David-to-Joab letter surface behind 2 Samuel 11.
What is attested
The text attests David as sender, Joab as recipient, Uriah as carrier, and a reported written instruction.
Why infer this entity
The passage supplies document type, sender, recipient, carrier, and operative content.
Evidence ledger
- E1, 2 Samuel 11:14: primary trace for the letter formula.
- E2, 2 Samuel 11:14: primary trace for the named carrier.
- E3, 2 Samuel 11:15: primary trace for written content.
- E4, 2 Samuel 11:15: primary trace for the quoted instruction.
Counterarguments
The passage may preserve a narrative letter scene rather than the wording of an independent document.
Confidence scores
Direct attestation: 62. Existence warrant: 82. Specificity: 78. Reconstruction dependence: 76. Counterevidence: 20.
What would change the score
Specialist work on 2 Samuel 11, court correspondence, or the compositional history of the succession narrative would change the score.
Why this candidate exists
Codex-native Judaism category traversal selected a direct letter formula with sender, recipient, carrier, and quoted instruction.
L3 Evidence packet
Bible (King James), 2 Samuel 11 - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 2 Samuel 11:14
Quote: "David wrote a letter to Joab"
Paraphrase: The narrative explicitly introduces a letter from David to Joab.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 92
Cluster: 2samuel11-david-joab-letter
Bible (King James), 2 Samuel 11 - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 2 Samuel 11:14
Quote: "sent it by the hand of Uriah"
Paraphrase: The text supplies a named carrier for the reported letter.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 82
Cluster: 2samuel11-david-joab-letter
Bible (King James), 2 Samuel 11 - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 2 Samuel 11:15
Quote: "he wrote in the letter"
Paraphrase: The passage reports the contents as written in the letter.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 88
Cluster: 2samuel11-david-joab-letter
Bible (King James), 2 Samuel 11 - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 2 Samuel 11:15
Quote: "Set ye Uriah in the forefront"
Paraphrase: The quoted instruction gives the reported letter a concrete operative content.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 82
Cluster: 2samuel11-david-joab-letter
Offline existing-inferon judge ledger control source - Network gap
Warrant role: Noetic interpretation
Source authority: Noetic model prior 50
Access level: No external text
Locator: existing_inferon_judge_promote:inferon:349
Paraphrase: Offline judge treated existing inferon 349 (source_dependence) as support for David Joab letter behind 2 Samuel 11. Evidence strength: source-backed prior reading already isolated a bounded missing or reconstructed entity; suitable for L2 only. The accountable path is EvidencePath 1566.
Reliability: 82 - Relevance: 66
Cluster: existing_inferon_judge_promote:a55bc500180d311492c4c2321097ec36
Arguments
Existing inferon 349 supports an L2 inferred candidate for David Joab letter behind 2 Samuel 11; this remains below publication and is not direct attestation.
AI-assessed L2 Quotient triage: AI judge warrant assessment for L2 Quotient triage; existing AI-created evidence remains below publication.
A David-Joab letter behind 2 Samuel 11 is warranted as a source-backed draft entity.
The text strongly warrants a reported letter surface; exact documentary status and wording remain source-critical questions.