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Arabic Middle East and North Africa

A V1 scaffold page for gathering published findings, draft work, L1 leads, and L0 rough sources for this print-dominance region.

L2 Candidates

Published beta · Lost text

Abydenus' lost Assyrian-Chaldaean history

Draft lost-text article for Abydenus' Assyrian-Chaldaean historical writing as preserved through later chronographic fragments.

Published beta · Lost text

The temple-performance exemplar behind the Bremner-Rhind Songs of Isis and Nephthys

Inferred Egyptian ritual-text antecedent behind the directly attested Bremner-Rhind Songs of Isis and Nephthys.

Review needed · Unnamed person

Seleucus VII Philometor identity-linkage dossier

Codex source-reading decision from the pre-1550 high-value title-prior lane.

Drafted · Inferred source

Lost Hebrew or Aramaic 2 Baruch source behind Syriac witness

A lost Hebrew or Aramaic 2 Baruch source layer inferred behind the Syriac manuscript and Greek precursor.

Drafted · Lost text

Jannes and Mambres magical contest source behind Moses traditions

A lost Jannes and Mambres contest narrative inferred from apocryphal references and later paraphrase traces.

Drafted · Inferred source

Jewish Syriac Proverbs translation source behind Targum Proverbs

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

Drafted · Inferred source

Jewish Adam-Eve legend collection behind Life of Adam and Eve recensions

A Jewish Adam and Eve legend collection inferred behind Greek, Latin, Slavonic, Syriac, Ethiopic, and Arabic recensions.

Drafted · Inferred source

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.

L1 Leads

Web search · Triaged

OCP control: 4 Ezra

Online Critical Pseudepigrapha introduction describing a lost Hebrew 4 Ezra version, fragmentary Greek survival, and Latin/Syriac/Ethiopic/other translation transmission.

Web search · Triaged

OCP control: 2 Baruch

Online Critical Pseudepigrapha introduction describing 2 Baruch's lost Hebrew/Aramaic original, complete Syriac witness, and Greek precursor fragments.

Web search · Triaged

Wikisource control: James on Jannes and Mambres

Public-domain sourcebook chapter collecting apocryphal and paraphrase traces of Jannes and Mambres traditions.

Web search · Triaged

Van Rooy, A second version of the Syriac Psalm 151

Full-text scholarly discussion of Psalm 151's Qumran, Greek, and Syriac transmission, including the A/B Hebrew relationship to the LXX.

Web search · Triaged

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.

Web search · Triaged

OCP control: Jubilees

Online Critical Pseudepigrapha introduction describing Hebrew portions, Greek/Syriac/Latin/Ethiopic transmission, and incomplete encoded witness coverage.

Web search · Triaged

Encyclopedia.com control: Levi, Testament of

Encyclopaedia Judaica article describing Aramaic, Greek, Syriac, Genizah, and Qumran witnesses.

Web search · Triaged

Jewish Encyclopedia control: Targum

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