Late-medieval Hebrew commentary transmission routes

Epistemic status

Inferred L3 evidence-packet article.

This article describes an entity that is not directly attested. It is an inference from the evidence listed below.

Summary

Source-backed inferon for late-medieval Hebrew philosophical, polemical, and commentarial transmission routes around Duran, Albalag, Falaquera, Ibn Shem-Tov, and Bartenura.

What is being inferred

Late-medieval Hebrew commentary transmission routes is treated here only as the inferred lacuna described by the candidate record and the evidence packet below.

What is attested

• Evidence 1399 records: The entry presents Falaquera as a major Hebrew mediator of Greek, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy, often compiling and translating without fully naming source routes.
• Evidence 1400 records: The entry places Albalag in Jewish Averroism and treats Sefer Tiqqun ha-Deot as significant in post-Maimonidean Jewish philosophy.
• Evidence 1401 records: The entry reports Albalag's surviving Hebrew version of al-Ghazali's Intentions of the Philosophers with prologue and critical notes titled Tikkun ha-Deot.
• Evidence 1402 records: The entry lists Duran's polemical, grammatical, philosophical, astronomical, and exegetical writings, many still manuscript-linked.
• Evidence 1403 records: The entry identifies Maamar Zikhron ha-Shemadot as a now-lost history of persecutions and expulsions later used by sixteenth-century Jewish historians.
• Evidence 1404 records: The entry documents commentaries and translations including commentary on Profiat Duran, Crescas material, and Averroes or Aristotelian works.
• Evidence 1405 records: NLI metadata records manuscript transmission of Profiat Duran's Al Tehi ka-Avotekha with Joseph ibn Shem-Tov commentary and Isaac Akrish introduction.
• Evidence 1406 records: The entry shows Bartenura/Yare as a late-fifteenth-century Mishnah commentator drawing on earlier commentary traditions, with letters and other works on separate manuscript or publication routes.
• Evidence 4193 records: Offline judge treated existing inferon 231 (source_dependence) as support for Late-medieval Hebrew commentary transmission routes. Evidence strength: bounded but below-publication structural/source inferon; sufficient for L2 review, not for article promotion. The accountable path is EvidencePath 1303.

Why infer this entity

The late-medieval Hebrew micro-corpus warrants an inferon about commentary and polemical transmission routes, not a broad article draft.

Evidence ledger

• Evidence 1399: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Shem Tov Ibn Falaquera, SEP entry. The entry presents Falaquera as a major Hebrew mediator of Greek, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy, often compiling and translating without fully naming source routes. Role: Supporting evidence.
• Evidence 1400: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Isaac Albalag, SEP entry. The entry places Albalag in Jewish Averroism and treats Sefer Tiqqun ha-Deot as significant in post-Maimonidean Jewish philosophy. Role: Supporting evidence.
• Evidence 1401: Encyclopedia.com, Albalag Isaac, reference entry. The entry reports Albalag's surviving Hebrew version of al-Ghazali's Intentions of the Philosophers with prologue and critical notes titled Tikkun ha-Deot. Role: Bibliographic control.
• Evidence 1402: Encyclopedia.com, Duran Profiat, reference entry. The entry lists Duran's polemical, grammatical, philosophical, astronomical, and exegetical writings, many still manuscript-linked. Role: Supporting evidence.
• Evidence 1403: Encyclopedia.com, Duran Profiat, reference entry. The entry identifies Maamar Zikhron ha-Shemadot as a now-lost history of persecutions and expulsions later used by sixteenth-century Jewish historians. Role: Supporting evidence.
• Evidence 1404: Jewish Encyclopedia, Joseph ibn Shem-Tob, encyclopedia entry. The entry documents commentaries and translations including commentary on Profiat Duran, Crescas material, and Averroes or Aristotelian works. Role: Supporting evidence.
• Evidence 1405: NLI manuscript, Al Tehi ka-Avotekha with Joseph ibn Shem-Tov commentary, catalog record. NLI metadata records manuscript transmission of Profiat Duran's Al Tehi ka-Avotekha with Joseph ibn Shem-Tov commentary and Isaac Akrish introduction. Role: Bibliographic control.
• Evidence 1406: Encyclopedia.com, Bertinoro Obadiah ben Abraham Yare, reference entry. The entry shows Bartenura/Yare as a late-fifteenth-century Mishnah commentator drawing on earlier commentary traditions, with letters and other works on separate manuscript or publication routes. Role: Supporting evidence.
• Evidence 4193: Offline existing-inferon judge ledger control source, existing_inferon_judge_promote:inferon:231. Offline judge treated existing inferon 231 (source_dependence) as support for Late-medieval Hebrew commentary transmission routes. Evidence strength: bounded but below-publication structural/source inferon; sufficient for L2 review, not for article promotion. The accountable path is EvidencePath 1303. Role: Noetic interpretation.

Counterarguments

• The packet contains no separate counterevidence item; this absence does not remove the need for challenge.

Confidence scores

• Direct attestation: 76
• Existence warrant: 72
• Specificity confidence: 58
• Reconstruction dependence: 72
• Counterevidence pressure: 48

What would change the score

• A direct attestation would move this out of the inferred catalogue.
• Stronger independent evidence would raise the warrant or specificity.
• Better counterevidence would lower the warrant or force retirement.