Samuel kingship charter behind 1 Samuel 10
The deposited book of royal procedure or kingship terms reported in 1 Samuel 10.
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A written and deposited kingship text in the Saul accession narrative.
This article describes an entity that is not directly attested as an extant recoverable book; it is inferred from source-citation traces and should not be read as ordinary documentation of a surviving charter.
Epistemic status
Draft article. 1 Samuel 10 directly reports writing and deposition, but the written text is not extant here.
Summary
1 Samuel 10 says Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. Inferpedia treats this as a deposited kingship-text surface.
What is being inferred
The inferred entity is the book or charter-like text containing the manner of the kingdom behind 1 Samuel 10.
What is attested
The text attests subject matter, writing in a book, and deposition before the LORD.
Why infer this entity
The passage gives a direct writing notice with a stated topic and stated placement.
Evidence ledger
- E1, 1 Samuel 10:25: primary trace for the subject matter.
- E2, 1 Samuel 10:25: primary trace for writing in a book.
- E3, 1 Samuel 10:25: primary trace for deposition.
Counterarguments
The notice may function as a literary legitimation of monarchy rather than proof of a recoverable document.
Confidence scores
Direct attestation: 70. Existence warrant: 86. Specificity: 80. Reconstruction dependence: 72. Counterevidence: 18.
What would change the score
Specialist work on Saul accession traditions, royal law, or the textual history of 1 Samuel would change the score.
Why this candidate exists
Codex-native Judaism category traversal selected a direct writing-and-deposition notice for an absent constitutional text.
L3 Evidence packet
Bible (King James), 1 Samuel 10 - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 1 Samuel 10:25
Quote: "manner of the kingdom"
Paraphrase: The text gives the subject matter of the written item.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 88
Cluster: 1samuel10-kingship-charter
Bible (King James), 1 Samuel 10 - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 1 Samuel 10:25
Quote: "wrote it in a book"
Paraphrase: The passage explicitly reports the material being written in a book.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 94
Cluster: 1samuel10-kingship-charter
Bible (King James), 1 Samuel 10 - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Primary source 80
Access level: Full text
Locator: 1 Samuel 10:25
Quote: "laid it up before the LORD"
Paraphrase: The text reports deposition of the written item in a cultic or official setting.
Reliability: 80 - Relevance: 88
Cluster: 1samuel10-kingship-charter
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:355
Paraphrase: Offline judge treated existing inferon 355 (source_dependence) as support for Samuel kingship charter behind 1 Samuel 10. Evidence strength: source-backed prior reading already isolated a bounded missing or reconstructed entity; suitable for L2 only. The accountable path is EvidencePath 1572.
Reliability: 86 - Relevance: 66
Cluster: existing_inferon_judge_promote:81d6218fd0aa32443299712207b30a9a
Arguments
Existing inferon 355 supports an L2 inferred candidate for Samuel kingship charter behind 1 Samuel 10; 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.
Samuel's kingship charter behind 1 Samuel 10 is warranted as a source-backed draft lost-text entity.
Writing and deposition language gives high warrant; genre and compositional status remain open.