Second Temple Judaism

Primary-text control for the copied Artaxerxes letter to Ezra.

Primary-text control for the Ezra 4 accusation and Artaxerxes reply correspondence trace.

Primary text control for the Achmetha roll containing Cyrus' decree record.

Primary-text control for the Tatnai/Shethar-boznai letter to Darius.

Public sourcebook page describing 4Q242 as four Cave 4 scraps copied from an older original and related to Daniel's royal-madness story.

Primary-text control for Nehemiah's governor and Asaph letters.

Primary-text control for Sanballat's open letter to Nehemiah.

Primary text control for the found genealogy register in Nehemiah 7.

Public source-text page preserving the 1 Maccabees closing notice about records of John Hyrcanus's high priesthood.

Public excerpt from Schiffman's Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls describing fragmentary New Jerusalem witnesses and reconstructed city-plan content.

Peer-reviewed article abstract describing a new reconstruction of the composition known as 4QWords of Ezekiel.

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

Academic project page describing the fragmentary witnesses and material reconstruction of the thirteen-song liturgical cycle.

Public text and commentary page describing 4Q243-245 as related Aramaic Pseudo-Daniel fragments.

Public article text discussing the Qumran Mysteries manuscripts, poetic reconstruction, overlaps, and unresolved original order.

Reference entry describing a Mosaic-law exposition in dialogue form and its surviving fragments in Clement and Eusebius.

Reference entry describing Exagoge, Eusebius' quotation through Alexander Polyhistor, its unique Jewish dramatic form, and 269 preserved iambic trimeters.

Reference entry describing surviving passages, transmission through Eusebius and Clement via Alexander Polyhistor, the title On the Kings of Judah, and the scope of the history.

Public reference page describing Damascus Document camp organization and the priest who understands the Book of the Hagu.

Public sourcebook entry describing Cairo Geniza and Qumran witnesses, overlap, authentic Second Temple material, and previously unknown Qumran content.

Public sourcebook page describing 4Q375 and 4Q376 as complementary fragments of a single legal composition with an oracle procedure.

Public BAS sidebar explaining MMT's reconstructed structure, six Qumran Cave 4 copies, and use of supplementary copies in reconstruction.

Reference entry describing Aristeas' On the Jews and its single surviving Job-related fragment, with a cautious note on possible dependence on a lost Job apocryphon.

Reference entry describing Demetrius' chronicles, fragment transmission through Alexander Polyhistor and Eusebius, a Clement fragment, and his chronological method.

A copied royal authorization letter to Ezra reported in Ezra 7.

A Persian-period accusation and reply dossier reported in Ezra 4.

A reported archive roll at Achmetha containing the record of Cyrus' temple decree in Ezra 6.

A copied provincial-governor letter to Darius reported in Ezra 5.

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

A packet of royal travel and timber letters reported in Nehemiah 2.

A reported genealogy register behind the list of first returnees in Nehemiah 7.

An open accusation letter attributed to Sanballat's fifth approach in Nehemiah 6.

A chronicle or records collection of John Hyrcanus's high priesthood referred to at the close of 1 Maccabees.

A Nabonidus madness-story source layer inferred behind 4Q242 and related Danielic narrative parallels.

A fragmentary Aramaic Levi textual tradition inferred across Genizah, Qumran, Greek, and Syriac witnesses.

A reconstructed New Jerusalem textual object inferred behind fragmentary Aramaic and Hebrew Qumran witnesses.

A damaged Danielic historical-review source inferred behind the related Aramaic 4Q243-245 Cave 4 fragments.

A reconstructed thirteen-Sabbath liturgical cycle inferred behind fragmentary Qumran and Masada witnesses.

A lost Hellenistic Jewish exposition of Mosaic law, inferred behind patristic fragments attributed to Aristobulus of Paneas.

A reconstructed poetic Mysteries composition inferred behind 1Q27, 4Q299, and 4Q300 fragmentary witnesses.

The lost complete Greek Jewish Exodus tragedy inferred behind the surviving excerpted verses.

A reconstructed Ezekielian parabiblical composition inferred across fragmentary Cave 4 witnesses.

A legal-procedure composition about testing prophets, inferred behind fragmentary 4Q375 and 4Q376 witnesses.

A Qumran-related Book of Hagu authority text inferred behind Damascus Document camp-priest requirements.

A recensional/stemmatic textual complex inferred from 1QS and Cave 4 Serekh ha-Yahad witnesses, especially 4Q255-264.

A Second Temple Damascus Document textual form inferred across medieval Cairo Geniza copies and ancient Qumran witnesses.

The lost Greco-Jewish historical work inferred behind six later excerpts preserved through Eusebius and Clement.

A lost Tyrian/Phoenician historical work by Menander inferred from Josephus citations and fragment transmission.