Eupolemus On the Kings of Judah history behind Polyhistor excerpts
The lost Greco-Jewish historical work inferred behind six later excerpts preserved through Eusebius and Clement.
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Eupolemus On the Kings of Judah history behind Polyhistor excerpts v1 ยท Draft
A lost Greco-Jewish historical work visible through six later passages.
Epistemic status
This article describes an entity that is not directly attested: the complete On the Kings of Judah by Eupolemus. Six passages survive, but the whole historical work is absent.
Summary
Encyclopaedia Judaica reports that six passages from Eupolemus survive in Eusebius and Clement through Alexander Polyhistor, and that Eupolemus entitled his book On the Kings of Judah.
What is being inferred
The lost complete historical work behind those six excerpted passages.
What is attested
The attested surfaces are the six passages, the later preservation chain, the title, and a described historical scope from Moses toward the author's own day.
Why infer this entity
A titled work with broad scope and multiple excerpted passages gives enough shape for a lost-text entry distinct from a biography of Eupolemus.
Evidence ledger
- Six passages survive in later authors.
- Eusebius, Clement, and Alexander Polyhistor form the preservation chain.
- The title On the Kings of Judah is reported.
- The work was not merely a biblical restatement.
Counterarguments
This route must remain distinct from Pseudo-Eupolemus, which is already represented locally, and the surviving passages may not recover the whole work's plan.
Confidence scores
Direct attestation 61; existence warrant 76; specificity 73; reconstruction dependence 65; counterevidence 26.
What would change the score
A fragment edition separating Eupolemus and Pseudo-Eupolemus would improve specificity. A direct manuscript or fuller ancient table of contents would change the entity from inferred lost work to attested textual witness.
Why this candidate exists
Codex-native Judaism category traversal selected a Hellenistic Jewish history whose title, scope, and excerpt chain make the absent complete work navigable.
L3 Evidence packet
Encyclopaedia Judaica, Eupolemus - Direct attestation
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Encyclopedia summary 72
Access level: Full text
Locator: Encyclopaedia Judaica, Eupolemus
Quote: "Six passages from Eupolemus' writings survive"
Paraphrase: The source gives a bounded surviving fragment count.
Reliability: 72 - Relevance: 90
Cluster: eupolemus
Encyclopaedia Judaica, Eupolemus - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Supporting evidence
Source authority: Encyclopedia summary 72
Access level: Full text
Locator: Encyclopaedia Judaica, Eupolemus
Quote: "works of Eusebius and Clement"
Paraphrase: The preservation channel is through later excerpting authors.
Reliability: 72 - Relevance: 80
Cluster: eupolemus
Encyclopaedia Judaica, Eupolemus - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Supporting evidence
Source authority: Encyclopedia summary 72
Access level: Full text
Locator: Encyclopaedia Judaica, Eupolemus
Quote: "Alexander Polyhistor"
Paraphrase: The source identifies an intermediate Hellenistic collection channel.
Reliability: 72 - Relevance: 72
Cluster: eupolemus
Encyclopaedia Judaica, Eupolemus - Direct attestation
Warrant role: Supporting evidence
Source authority: Encyclopedia summary 72
Access level: Full text
Locator: Encyclopaedia Judaica, Eupolemus
Quote: "On the Kings of Judah"
Paraphrase: The book has a specific title.
Reliability: 72 - Relevance: 84
Cluster: eupolemus
Encyclopaedia Judaica, Eupolemus - Chronology gap
Warrant role: Supporting evidence
Source authority: Encyclopedia summary 72
Access level: Full text
Locator: Encyclopaedia Judaica, Eupolemus
Quote: "covered the period from Moses"
Paraphrase: The work had a broad historical scope.
Reliability: 72 - Relevance: 78
Cluster: eupolemus
Encyclopaedia Judaica, Eupolemus - Shared wording
Warrant role: Supporting evidence
Source authority: Encyclopedia summary 72
Access level: Full text
Locator: Encyclopaedia Judaica, Eupolemus
Quote: "not a mere restatement"
Paraphrase: The source indicates an authored historical rewriting rather than a simple biblical copy.
Reliability: 72 - Relevance: 72
Cluster: eupolemus
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:428
Paraphrase: Offline judge treated existing inferon 428 (source_dependence) as support for Eupolemus On the Kings of Judah history behind Polyhistor excerpts. Evidence strength: source-backed prior reading already isolated a bounded missing or reconstructed entity; suitable for L2 only. The accountable path is EvidencePath 1646.
Reliability: 76 - Relevance: 66
Cluster: existing_inferon_judge_promote:3e495dea8fae732d2364cf31814b57de
Arguments
Existing inferon 428 supports an L2 inferred candidate for Eupolemus On the Kings of Judah history behind Polyhistor excerpts; 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.
Eupolemus' On the Kings of Judah behind Polyhistor excerpts is warranted as a source-backed draft lost-text entity distinct from Pseudo-Eupolemus.
The titled-work claim is strong enough for a draft, while reconstruction is limited by the small number of surviving passages and the need to distinguish Pseudo-Eupolemus.