John Hyrcanus high-priestly annals behind 1 Maccabees 16:24
A chronicle or records collection of John Hyrcanus's high priesthood referred to at the close of 1 Maccabees.
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An explicit Hasmonean source notice at the close of 1 Maccabees.
Epistemic status
This article describes an entity that is not directly attested as a surviving document: the chronicle or records of John Hyrcanus's high priesthood referred to in 1 Maccabees 16:24. The notice is attested; the record itself is not extant here.
Summary
The closing verses of 1 Maccabees point beyond the book to the rest of John's acts, wars, rebuilding, and achievements, saying these were recorded in the chronicle of his high priesthood. A secondary thesis citation confirms the same Hyrcanus notice.
What is being inferred
The inferred entity is a chronicle, annals, or records collection associated with John Hyrcanus's high priesthood.
What is attested
The attested surface is the source notice in 1 Maccabees 16:23-24 and secondary recognition of that notice.
Why infer this entity
Ancient historiographical source notices are exactly the kind of source-dependent lacuna Inferpedia should expose. Here the notice is explicit and named by function.
Evidence ledger
- 1 Maccabees refers to the rest of John's acts.
- It lists wars, deeds, wall rebuilding, and achievements.
- It says these were recorded in the chronicle of his high priesthood.
- The notice is tied to John's succession after his father.
- Secondary scholarship identifies the notice with John Hyrcanus.
Counterarguments
The chronicle may be a formulaic reference to administrative records rather than a discrete literary source. The contents cannot be reconstructed from the notice alone.
Confidence scores
Direct attestation 42; existence warrant 82; specificity 76; reconstruction dependence 70; counterevidence 28.
What would change the score
A critical Greek edition and commentary on 1 Maccabees 16:23-24 would improve the genre assessment. Parallels to other Hasmonean or priestly records would raise the score; evidence that this is only a rhetorical formula would lower it.
Why this candidate exists
Codex-native Judaism category traversal selected an explicit ancient source-reference lacuna in Hasmonean historiography.
L3 Evidence packet
BibleGateway, 1 Maccabees 16:23-24 NABRE - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Sourcebook 68
Access level: Full text
Locator: 1 Maccabees 16:23
Quote: "rest of the acts of John"
Paraphrase: The notice points beyond the narrative to further acts of John.
Reliability: 68 - Relevance: 88
Cluster: 1macc-hyrcanus
BibleGateway, 1 Maccabees 16:23-24 NABRE - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Sourcebook 68
Access level: Full text
Locator: 1 Maccabees 16:24
Quote: "chronicle of his high priesthood"
Paraphrase: The source explicitly names a chronicle/records surface for the high priesthood.
Reliability: 68 - Relevance: 96
Cluster: 1macc-hyrcanus
BibleGateway, 1 Maccabees 16:23-24 NABRE - Chronology gap
Warrant role: Supporting evidence
Source authority: Sourcebook 68
Access level: Full text
Locator: 1 Maccabees 16:24 footnote
Quote: "succeeded his father as high priest"
Paraphrase: The notice anchors the record to John's succession after Simon.
Reliability: 68 - Relevance: 82
Cluster: 1macc-hyrcanus
BibleGateway, 1 Maccabees 16:23-24 NABRE - Chronology gap
Warrant role: Supporting evidence
Source authority: Sourcebook 68
Access level: Full text
Locator: BibleGateway footnote
Quote: "ruler and high priest from 134 B.C."
Paraphrase: The footnote supplies the rough period covered by the high-priestly records.
Reliability: 64 - Relevance: 78
Cluster: 1macc-hyrcanus
Concordia Seminary dissertation PDF citing John Hyrcanus chronicle notice - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Supporting evidence
Source authority: University thesis 62
Access level: Full text
Locator: Concordia Seminary PDF
Quote: "John (Hyrcanus) became high priest"
Paraphrase: The secondary source confirms the identification of John in the 1 Maccabees notice as Hyrcanus.
Reliability: 62 - Relevance: 74
Cluster: 1macc-hyrcanus
Concordia Seminary dissertation PDF citing John Hyrcanus chronicle notice - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Supporting evidence
Source authority: University thesis 62
Access level: Full text
Locator: Concordia Seminary PDF
Quote: "chronicles of his highpriesthood"
Paraphrase: A secondary scholarly source recognizes the same chronicle notice.
Reliability: 62 - Relevance: 82
Cluster: 1macc-hyrcanus
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:468
Paraphrase: Offline judge treated existing inferon 468 (source_dependence) as support for John Hyrcanus high-priestly annals behind 1 Maccabees 16:24. Evidence strength: source-backed prior reading already isolated a bounded missing or reconstructed entity; suitable for L2 only. The accountable path is EvidencePath 1686.
Reliability: 82 - Relevance: 66
Cluster: existing_inferon_judge_promote:0941b8eb207f6993c8c0892ebb395938
Arguments
Existing inferon 468 supports an L2 inferred candidate for John Hyrcanus high-priestly annals behind 1 Maccabees 16:24; 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.
John Hyrcanus high-priestly annals behind 1 Maccabees 16:24 are warranted as a draft lost-text/source-notice article.
The source notice is explicit and bounded, but the content and genre of the annals cannot yet be reconstructed.