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This page is useful when it is treated as a crossing point: preserved Jewish corpora on one side, inferred source layers and manuscript routes on the other. Start with Lost Maamar Zikhron ha-Shemadot of Profiat Duran, then use Buried early Targum of Job behind Shabbat 115a as a visible unfinished question rather than as a second article.

Lost Maamar Zikhron ha-Shemadot of Profiat Duran carries Quotient 46/100, with existence warrant 74 and direct attestation 52. Book of Elchasai helps route the reader to review material; it does not make the lower-rung material evidentiary on its own.

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Research Leads

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Sefaria sourcebook control: Shabbat 115a

Sourcebook text for the buried translation of Job notice.

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Sefaria sourcebook control: Megillah 9a

Sourcebook text for Ptolemy, the seventy-two elders, and shared translation changes.

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Sefaria sourcebook control: Shabbat 116a

Sourcebook text for the rabbinic discussion of the marked ark-travel pericope.

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Sefaria sourcebook control: Tractate Soferim 6:4

Sourcebook text for the three Temple-court scroll witnesses and their variant readings.

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CCEL full-text control: Swete on Greek Job

Scholarly-book discussion of the shorter Old Greek Job text and the shorter-Hebrew-text theory.

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Sefaria sourcebook control: Avot de-Rabbi Natan 34

Sourcebook text for the Ezra explanation of dotted Torah words.

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Sefaria sourcebook control: Megillah 3a

Sourcebook text for Jonathan ben Uzziel and the last-prophets source tradition.

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Sefaria sourcebook control: Megillah 3a

Sourcebook text for Onkelos and the forgotten/reestablished Aramaic Torah translation.

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Sefaria sourcebook control: Megillah 3a

Sourcebook text for the attempted but blocked translation of the Writings.

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Sefaria sourcebook control: Nedarim 37b

Sourcebook text for written-but-not-read words in the Masoretic tradition.

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Sefaria sourcebook control: Nedarim 37b

Sourcebook text for read-but-not-written words in the Masoretic tradition.

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Britannica control: Origen's Hexapla

Reference discussion of Hexapla columns and the Hebrew-in-Greek-letters pronunciation witness.

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Jewish Encyclopedia control: Hexapla

Reference discussion of Origen's Hexapla and the extra Greek versions Quinta, Sexta, and a seventh version.

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Jewish Encyclopedia control: Targum

Reference discussion of Palestinian Prophets Targum extracts and another-copy variants.

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Jewish Encyclopedia control: Theodotion

Reference discussion of Theodotionic Daniel and the displaced Septuagint/Old Greek Daniel text.

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New Advent control: Targum

Reference discussion of Fragmentary Targum and the unpreserved full Pentateuch Targum.

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Sefaria sourcebook control: Tractate Soferim 6:3

Sourcebook text listing dotted Torah words and letters.

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Early Jewish Writings control: Theodotus

Reference page quoting scholarship on Eusebius/Polyhistor excerpts, unrecorded title, and Samaritan/Jewish classification debate.

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Early Jewish Writings control: Tobit

Reference page quoting scholarship on Qumran Hebrew/Aramaic fragments, Semitic original language, and divergent Greek recensions.

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Encyclopedia.com control: Ben Sira, Wisdom of

Encyclopaedia Judaica entry describing Genizah, Qumran, and Masada Hebrew fragments, corruptions, and comparison with Greek and Syriac versions.

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Jewish Encyclopedia control: Psalms of Solomon

Jewish Encyclopedia entry describing Greek-only survival, probable Hebrew composition, and translation features.

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Jewish Encyclopedia control: Targum

Reference discussion of Targum Proverbs, Peshitta agreement, and a shared Jewish translation source.

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OCP control: Visions of Amram

Online Critical Pseudepigrapha introduction describing the five Aramaic Qumran copies and the edition's reconstruction limits.

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Brill control: Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran

Open-access introduction describing the fragmentary state of Visions of Amram and the base-text reconstruction problem.

Candidates

Lost text - Drafted
Buried early Targum of Job behind Shabbat 115a

An early Aramaic translation of Job remembered as read and then buried in Shabbat 115a.

Inferred source - Drafted
Inverted-nun ark pericope displacement behind Numbers 10

A displaced or separately bounded ark-travel textual unit behind the inverted-nun tradition around Numbers 10.

Inferred source - Drafted
Ptolemy Greek Torah translation change layer behind Megillah 9a

The coordinated change layer attributed to the seventy-two elders' Greek Torah translation for Ptolemy.

Lost text - Drafted
Temple-court Torah scroll variant witnesses behind Soferim 6

The three reported Temple-court Torah scroll witnesses named Maon, Zaatute, and Hu in Tractate Soferim.

Inferred source - Drafted
Ezra dotted-word uncertainty layer behind the Torah

A rabbinic scribal-doubt layer explaining dotted words and letters in the Torah.

Inferred source - Drafted
Forgotten Aramaic Torah translation behind Onkelos

The earlier Aramaic Torah translation tradition described as forgotten and reestablished by Onkelos in Megillah 3a.

Inferred source - Drafted
Hexapla Secunda Hebrew pronunciation layer

The Hebrew-in-Greek-letters pronunciation layer embedded in Origen's Hexapla.

Inferred source - Drafted
Last-prophets source tradition behind Targum Jonathan

The Haggai-Zechariah-Malachi source tradition attributed to Jonathan's Prophets translation in Megillah 3a.

Inferred source - Drafted
Lost continuous Palestinian Pentateuch Targum behind fragmentary witnesses

A continuous Palestinian Pentateuch Targum inferred behind fragmentary Yerushalmi witnesses.

Inferred source - Drafted
Read-but-not-written Masoretic word layer

An oral reading layer for words read in biblical passages despite absence from the written consonantal text.

Inferred source - Drafted
Short Hebrew Job Vorlage behind Old Greek Job

A shorter Hebrew Job text-form inferred behind the Old Greek Job tradition.

Inferred source - Drafted
Unrevealed Targum of the Writings behind Megillah 3a

A blocked or unrevealed translation project for the Writings remembered in Megillah 3a.

Inferred source - Drafted
Written-but-not-read Masoretic word layer

A written but unpronounced word layer in biblical passages preserved through Masoretic transmission.

Inferred source - Drafted
Anonymous Quinta Sexta Septima Greek versions behind the Hexapla

The extra anonymous Greek version columns or fragments known through Hexaplaric notices as Quinta, Sexta, and a seventh version.

Inferred source - Drafted
Displaced Old Greek Daniel witness behind Theodotionic Daniel

The earlier Greek Daniel tradition displaced by Theodotionic Daniel and mostly visible through rare witnesses and revision evidence.

Lost text - Published
Lost Book of Elchasai behind patristic fragment witnesses

A lost Jewish-Christian prophetic book inferred from patristic notices and fragments.

Inferred source - Drafted
Palestinian Prophets Targum variant-copy layer

A Palestinian Prophets Targum variant-copy stream visible through extracts and marginal notes.

Inferred source - Drafted
Jewish Syriac Proverbs translation source behind Targum Proverbs

A shared Jewish Syriac/Aramaic Proverbs translation source inferred behind Targum Proverbs and the Peshitta.

Inferred source - Drafted
Ben Sira Hebrew textual form behind Genizah and desert fragments

A Hebrew Ben Sira textual form inferred behind Genizah, Qumran, Masada, Greek, and Syriac witnesses.

Inferred source - Drafted
Complete Aramaic Ben Sira translation behind targumic notices

A complete Aramaic Ben Sira translation inferred from targumic transmission notices.

Inferred source - Drafted
Lost Hebrew Psalms of Solomon source behind Greek translation

A lost Hebrew Psalms of Solomon source inferred behind the extant Greek and Greek-derived versions.

Lost text - Published
Lost Midrash Esfah behind later excerpt traditions

A lost smaller midrash inferred from excerpts in later anthologies and citations in other works.

Lost text - Drafted
Theodotus Shechem epic fragment behind Eusebius and Polyhistor

A lost Greek Shechem/Dinah epic inferred behind excerpts and summaries in Alexander Polyhistor and Eusebius.

Inferred source - Drafted
Tobit Semitic base text behind Greek recensions and Qumran fragments

A Semitic, probably Aramaic, Tobit base text inferred behind Qumran fragments and divergent Greek recensions.