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Jewish texts

Wikipedia category shelf for Jewish textual works, traditions, and text-adjacent source routes.

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Judaism

A subject page over Jewish textual, communal, polemical, responsa, Geniza, and manuscript-transmission lacunae.

Use for Jewish traditions and source routes as historical research surfaces. The page page is a browse lens, not a claim that every linked object is centrally about Judaism.

Jewish textual transmission

Lost, fragmentary, cited, translated, or witness-dependent Jewish texts and source layers.

A narrower child page for textual witnesses, source formulae, manuscript families, and lost Jewish works.

Early Christian and Syriac transmission

Christian, Syriac, patristic, episcopal, and conciliar source routes before print dominance.

Use for Christian textual and institutional transmission, especially when later witnesses imply missing dossiers.

Midrash

Wikipedia category shelf for Midrash and midrashic source-transmission surfaces.

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Midrashim

Wikipedia-style child shelf for individual Midrashim and related source routes.

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Greek textual transmission

Greek lost works, fragment corpora, doxographic chains, technical texts, and ancient author dossiers.

Use for Greek-language or Hellenic source chains, including later fragment collections and indirect witnesses.

Ancient Near Eastern inscriptions and succession

Epigraphic and chronicle-backed royal, polity, and succession lacunae in the ancient Near East and adjacent zones.

Use for damaged inscriptions, royal-name compression, campaign labels, and ruler-sequence reconstruction.

Jewish history

Wikipedia category shelf for Jewish historical-source and transmission contexts.

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Medieval Jewish history

Wikipedia-style child shelf for medieval Jewish historical contexts.

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Second Temple Judaism

Wikipedia category shelf for Second Temple textual and historical-source contexts.

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Manuscript and scribal production

Anonymous hands, production teams, witness families, codices, scribal layers, and manuscript-workshop lacunae.

Use where the missing object is a hand, team, exemplar, witness family, or production stratum rather than a named author.

Hebrew Bible

Wikipedia category shelf for Hebrew Bible textual witness, recension, and source-route contexts.

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Jewish apocrypha

Wikipedia category shelf for Jewish apocryphal and pseudepigraphic source-route contexts.

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Medieval Latin institutions and prosopography

Western and Latin institutional, office-holder, episcopal, monastic, parliamentary, and charter-implied gaps.

Use for missing officeholders, institutional transitions, and prosopographical records in Latin documentary contexts.

Christian apocrypha

Wikipedia category shelf for Christian apocryphal and patristic witness contexts.

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Islamic and Persianate source transmission

Arabic, Persianate, Ottoman, Islamic, and adjacent manuscript/source routes before print dominance.

Use for Arabic/Persianate source chains, chronicles, geography works, royal-history intermediaries, and manuscript ecologies.

South and Southeast Asian inscriptional polities

Inscriptional, court, religious, and polity-formation lacunae in South and Southeast Asian pre-print cultures.

Use for source-backed inscriptions, conversion-founder traditions, local polities, and early documentary gaps.

African manuscript and source ecologies

Manuscript, archive, inscriptional, and source-route lacunae in African pre-print and long manuscript ecologies.

Use cautiously: links may involve Arabic, Ajami, Ge'ez, oral, royal, and colonial-adjacent records with different source regimes.

Lost works

Wikipedia category shelf for lost-work contexts. This is navigation only, not a warrant label.

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Lost books

Wikipedia-style child shelf for lost-book contexts.

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Lost literary works

Wikipedia-style child shelf for lost literary work contexts.

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Epigraphy and damaged inscriptions

Damaged, copied, squeezed, fragmentary, or thinly contextualized inscriptional evidence routes.

Use as a method page when the source problem is inscriptional survival, damage, copying, or reading control.

Manuscripts

Wikipedia category shelf for manuscript, codex, and witness-route contexts.

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Medieval manuscripts

Wikipedia category shelf for medieval manuscript and scribal-production contexts.

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Technical, recipe, and scientific texts

Recipe strata, agronomic source chains, astronomical catalogues, herbals, and practical technical corpora.

Use for inferred source layers behind practical, scientific, medical, astronomical, or technical textual witnesses.

Inscriptions

Wikipedia category shelf for inscriptional source-control and damaged-reading contexts.

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Material practice and ritual action

Inferred craft traditions, ritual practices, monument loss, and material-action systems below ordinary articlehood.

Use when the inference is about a practice, production system, monument, or material behavior rather than only a text.

Hipparchus astronomus

Created from an operator-gated Scriptome author label; not an external identity merge.

Iohannes Chrysostomus

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Abstinence

Abstinence as the virtue moderating the desire for food according to right reason, a part of temperance.

Boastfulness

Boastfulness as the vice, opposed to truthfulness by excess, of claiming for oneself more than one is.

Chastity

Chastity as the virtue moderating sexual desire according to right reason, a principal part of temperance; densely supported in Aquinas's text.

Clemency and meekness

Clemency as the virtue moderating the infliction of punishment and meekness as the virtue moderating the passion of anger, both restraining excess according to reason.

Devotion

Devotion as the interior act of religion: the will's ready promptness to give oneself to the things of God's service, chief among the acts of the virtue of religion.

Dissimulation and hypocrisy

Hypocrisy as a vice opposed to truthfulness: the simulation of a holiness or virtue one does not possess, a lie enacted in deed.

Dulia (veneration of the saints)

Dulia as the reverence owed to persons excelling in dignity, especially the honor given to the saints, distinguished from the latria owed to God alone.

Equity (epikeia)

Epikeia or equity as the higher justice that corrects the letter of a law where its universal terms would fail the legislator's intention in a particular case.

Faith

Faith as the theological virtue by which the intellect assents, under the command of the will moved by grace, to truths revealed by God on the authority of God who reveals them.

Falsity

Falsity (falsitas) considered as the privation opposed to truth: strictly it exists in the intellect that judges wrongly, and only in a derived sense in things called false.

Fasting

Fasting as an act of the virtue of abstinence undertaken for the bridling of concupiscence, the raising of the mind, and satisfaction for sin.

Fear

Fear treated as a vice opposed to fortitude when it draws one away from a right good through dread of danger or death; more broadly, the passion of fear.

Flattery

Flattery as the vice, opposed to friendliness by excess, of praising or pleasing another beyond what is due, especially for one's own advantage.

Friendliness (affability)

Affability or friendliness as the virtue, annexed to justice, of behaving becomingly toward those one meets in the ordinary course of life.

Gluttony

Gluttony as the vice of inordinate desire for food and drink, opposed to abstinence and numbered among the capital vices.

Gratitude

Gratitude (thankfulness) as the virtue, annexed to justice, by which one acknowledges and returns a benefit received; distinct from sanctifying grace.

Honesty (honestas, moral goodness)

Honestas as the intrinsic moral goodness or becomingness of virtue that renders it worthy of honor for its own sake, closely bound to temperance.

Human nature and the soul

Aquinas's theological anthropology: the human being as a unity of body and rational soul, the soul being the substantial form of the body, subsistent and immortal yet naturally the form of matter.

Humility

Humility as the virtue that restrains the appetite from immoderate reaching for high things, holding one to one's own measure in subjection to God -- for Aquinas a foundation of the Christian moral life.

Idolatry

Idolatry as the gravest species of superstition: offering to a creature the worship (latria) due to God alone.

Incontinence

Incontinence as the defect of one who knows the good yet is overcome by passion and acts against right reason, distinguished by Aristotle from full intemperance.

Ingratitude

Ingratitude as the sin opposed to gratitude: the failure to recognize, requite, or even to despise a benefit received.

Irony (self-deprecation)

Irony as the vice, opposed to truthfulness by defect, of disclaiming or belittling in oneself what one truly has.

Liberality

Liberality as the virtue, annexed to justice, of the right use and giving of external wealth, holding the mean between prodigality and avarice.

Magnanimity

Magnanimity as the virtue that stretches the mind toward great things worthy of honor, holding the mean in the pursuit of honor.

Magnificence

Magnificence as the virtue of doing and making great things involving large expenditure, holding the mean in great outlays for a worthy end.

Martyrdom

Martyrdom as the highest act of the virtue of fortitude: enduring death for the sake of Christ and the truth of faith.

Obedience

Obedience as the moral virtue by which one submits one's will to a lawful superior's command, itself commanded by justice and reverence.

Perjury

Perjury as the sin of calling God to witness a falsehood or breaking a sworn oath, a grave irreverence toward the divine name.

Perseverance

Perseverance as the virtue of persisting steadfastly in a good work to its completion despite the tedium of long continuance.

Piety

Piety as the virtue, annexed to justice, by which one renders duty and reverence to parents and to one's country.

Prophecy

Prophecy as a gratuitous grace (gratia gratis data): a divinely given knowledge of things beyond natural reach, communicated to the prophet's intellect for the instruction of others.

Religion (the virtue)

Religion as the moral virtue, annexed to justice, by which one renders to God the worship and service owed to him as first principle and last end.

Sacrilege

Sacrilege as the violation of a sacred thing, person, or place -- an irreverence opposed to the virtue of religion.

Simony

Simony as the deliberate buying or selling of spiritual things or of what is annexed to them -- a sin against religion named for Simon Magus.

Sobriety

Sobriety as the virtue moderating the desire for intoxicating drink according to right reason, a part of temperance.

Superstition

Superstition as the vice of excess opposed to religion: giving divine worship either to whom it is not due or in an undue manner, including idolatrous, divinatory, and vain observances.

Syriac Christianity

Lost works, fragmentary witnesses, and source traditions of Syriac Christianity before print dominance.

Lost works, fragmentary witnesses, and source traditions of Syriac Christianity before print dominance.

The angels

Aquinas's angelology: the angels as wholly immaterial subsistent intellects, each its own species, created in grace, whose knowledge and love operate without bodily mediation.

The beginning of the world

Aquinas's treatment of whether created things had a temporal beginning: that the world began to exist is held by faith and cannot be demonstrated, since a beginningless created world is not in itself contradictory.

The contemplative and active life

Aquinas's account of the two lives: the contemplative life directed to the loving contemplation of divine truth and the active life directed to external works, with the contemplative held higher in itself.

The divine government of the world

The doctrine of divine governance (providence in execution): God orders and directs all created things to their ends, working through secondary causes without violating their natures.

The divine names

Aquinas's theory of how names drawn from creatures may be predicated of God: not univocally nor purely equivocally but analogically, signifying the divine perfections that pre-exist eminently in God.

The eternity of God

The doctrine of God's eternity: following Boethius, eternity is the whole, simultaneous, and perfect possession of interminable life, proper to God alone as wholly immutable.

The good

The transcendental notion of the good (bonum) considered in general: for Aquinas the good is convertible with being, is what all things desire, and is founded on a thing's actuality and perfection.

The grace of Christ

The grace of Christ considered as head of the Church: the fullness of habitual grace in Christ's soul from which grace flows to his members.

The Incarnation (the hypostatic union)

The doctrine of the Incarnation: the eternal Word assuming a complete human nature into the unity of his divine person, so that Christ is one person subsisting in two natures (the hypostatic union).

The infinity of God

The doctrine that God is infinite: not limited by matter or by any receiving potency, God is subsistent being itself and so unbounded in perfection.

Theology as a science (sacred doctrine)

Aquinas's account, opening the Summa Theologiae, of sacred doctrine (theology) as a genuine science: a body of knowledge that proceeds from principles held on the authority of divine revelation, subalternated to the knowledge God has of himself.

The omnipresence of God

The doctrine of God's presence in all things (God's existence in things): God is present to every creature by his power, presence, and essence, as the cause continuously giving it being.

The passions of the soul

The passions or emotions of the sensitive appetite (love, desire, joy, fear, anger, and the rest): movements of the soul following the apprehension of good or evil, morally good or evil as they are ruled by reason.

The procession of the divine persons

The Trinitarian doctrine of the two eternal processions within God -- the generation of the Son by way of intellect and the spiration of the Holy Spirit by way of will -- through which the distinct divine persons are constituted and known.

The state of the first man (original innocence)

The condition of Adam before the Fall: humanity in the state of original justice, with the lower powers subject to reason and reason to God, and the mode of human production and propagation proper to that state.

The work of the six days (creation of the corporeal world)

Aquinas's reading of the Hexaemeron: the creation and ordering of the corporeal world across the six days of Genesis, distinguishing the work of creation, of distinction, and of adornment.

Tithes

Aquinas's treatment of tithes: the payment of a tenth for the support of the ministers of religion, considered as a matter falling partly under moral and partly under positive precept.

Truth

Truth (veritas) as a transcendental: the conformity or adequation of intellect and thing, founded primarily in the divine intellect and derivatively in created intellects and things.

Truthfulness (the virtue)

Truthfulness as the moral virtue, annexed to justice, by which one shows oneself in word and deed as one truly is; distinct from the transcendental notion of truth.

Vainglory

Vainglory as the inordinate desire for glory or renown, a chief vice opposed to magnanimity and a source of many further sins.

Vengeance (vindication)

Vindication as a potential part of justice: the lawful infliction of punishment on a wrongdoer, licit when ordered to the correction of fault and the common good rather than to private hatred.