Research Library · Evidence Catalog

Know the evidence object, the source behind it, and exactly what each can establish.

Manuscripts, papyri, inscriptions, ancient works, artifacts, sites, coins, seals, and documentary records are first-class research entities. Editions, databases, catalog pages, images, transcriptions, and translations stay separate provenance records rather than being flattened into the object itself.

22first-class evidence entities
62provenance source records
14entities linked into research graph
8cataloged; graph link pending curation
Evidence boundary: Catalog entities identify evidence objects/works and organize provenance. A catalog relationship never converts an edition, transcription, translation, lexical claim, archaeological context, or interpretation into direct manuscript evidence. Jewish, Christian, Greco-Roman, and other historical contexts are filters—not object types and not interpretive conclusions.
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22 matching evidence records

These identify the manuscript, document, inscription, work, or material object itself. Provenance sources and passage-level claims remain linked but separate.

ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_ALEPPO_CODEX

Aleppo Codex (Keter Aram Tsova)

Tenth-century Masoretic Hebrew Bible codex associated with the Ben Asher tradition and preserved today under the Aleppo Codex custodial framework.

Datefirst half of 10th century CELanguageHebrew
Biblical textual witnessJewish context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_CODEX_ALEXANDRINUS

Codex Alexandrinus (Royal MSS 1 D V–VIII)

Fifth-century Greek biblical codex now preserved in four British Library volumes, containing extensive Old and New Testament material.

Date5th century CELanguageGreek
Biblical textual witnessChristian context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_CODEX_BEZAE

Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis (MS Nn.2.41)

Late fourth- or fifth-century bilingual Greek-Latin New Testament manuscript especially important for its distinctive text of the Gospels and Acts.

Datelate 4th or 5th century CELanguageGreek, Latin
Biblical textual witnessChristian context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_CODEX_SINAITICUS

Codex Sinaiticus

Fourth-century Greek biblical codex represented here as a first-class manuscript entity. Passage-level transcriptions/readings remain separate research records.

Datemiddle of 4th century CELanguageGreek
Biblical textual witnessChristian context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_CODEX_VATICANUS

Codex Vaticanus (Vat.gr.1209)

Fourth-century Greek biblical manuscript held by the Vatican Library, cataloged separately from any passage-level reading claims.

Date4th century CELanguageGreek
Biblical textual witnessChristian context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_1QPHAB

Commentary on Habakkuk / Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab)

Qumran Hebrew pesher preserving Habakkuk 1–2 in cited units with sectarian interpretation. The entity is especially useful for keeping biblical quotation, manuscript reading, and later interpretation as separate evidence layers.

Datesecond half of 1st century BCELanguageHebrew
Jewish contextBiblical textual witness
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_1QS

Community Rule Scroll (1QS / Serekh Hayahad)

Major Qumran sectarian rule text governing communal admission, discipline, covenantal life, and related beliefs. Cataloged as a Jewish manuscript witness, not as biblical Scripture.

Dateca. 100–75 BCELanguageHebrew
Jewish context
Ancient literary workANCIENT_TEXT_EUSEBIUS_PSALMS

Eusebius of Caesarea — Commentarii in Psalmos

Fourth-century Greek Christian commentary on the Psalms, cataloged as reception/exegetical evidence with open-access digital-edition provenance.

Dateearly 4th century CELanguageGreek
Christian contextLater reception / usage
Ancient literary workANCIENT_TEXT_JOSEPHUS_ANTIQUITIES

Flavius Josephus — Jewish Antiquities

Late first-century Jewish historiographical work in Greek. It is a major comparative source for Second-Temple institutions, rulers, priesthood, politics, geography, and Jewish history, but individual historical claims still require source criticism.

Dateca. 93–94 CELanguageGreek
Jewish contextGreco-Roman context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_1QISAA

Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaᵃ)

Dead Sea Scroll biblical manuscript preserving the complete book of Isaiah and providing a major pre-Masoretic Hebrew witness. v50 catalogs the manuscript identity without importing project imagery or treating the entity record as a verse-by-verse transcription.

Dateca. 125 BCELanguageHebrew
Biblical textual witnessJewish context
Ancient literary workANCIENT_TEXT_ORIGEN_DE_ORATIONE

Origen — De oratione (On Prayer)

Early Christian Greek treatise on prayer preserved in modern critical/digital editions. Added as a controlled early-Christian language and reception source, not as evidence for first-century apostolic usage.

Date3rd century CELanguageGreek
Christian contextLater reception / usage
OssuaryOSSUARY_JOSEPH_BAR_CAIPHAS

Ossuary inscribed “Joseph bar Caiaphas”

Decorated limestone ossuary from a southern Jerusalem family burial cave bearing the name Joseph bar Caiaphas. Association with the New Testament high priest Caiaphas is historically significant but must be distinguished from the physical inscription itself.

Dateearly 1st century CELanguageAramaic
Jewish context
Papyrus documentPAPYRUS_PLIPS_1_43

P.Lips. 1.43 (TM 33702)

Fourth-century Greek documentary papyrus used in the Archive for later Christian institutional/architectural/legal usage of ἐκκλησία.

Date4th century CELanguageGreek
Christian contextLater reception / usage
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_P75

Papyrus 75 — Hanna Papyrus 1 (Mater Verbi)

Early Greek papyrus biblical witness represented as a manuscript entity; the current catalog links to the Archive’s existing John 1 witness research without importing restricted imagery.

Dateearly 3rd century CELanguageGreek
Biblical textual witnessChristian context
Ancient literary workANCIENT_TEXT_PHILO_IN_FLACCUM

Philo of Alexandria — In Flaccum

First-century Alexandrian Jewish work describing conflict and persecution under the prefect Flaccus. Useful for Jewish life, civic status, administration, rhetoric, and Greco-Roman political vocabulary in a near-contemporary setting.

Datemid-1st century CE, after the events of 38 CELanguageGreek
Jewish contextGreco-Roman context
InscriptionINSCRIPTION_PILATE_STONE

Pontius Pilate inscription / Pilate Stone

Latin dedicatory inscription from Caesarea naming Pontius Pilate and preserving his title as prefect of Judea. It is direct historical/administrative evidence for Pilate's office, not a manuscript witness to the Gospels.

Dateca. 26–36 CELanguageLatin
Greco-Roman contextJewish context
InscriptionINSCRIPTION_TEL_DAN_STELE

Tel Dan Stele / “House of David” inscription

Ninth-century BCE Aramaic basalt victory-stele fragments from Tel Dan, including the widely read phrase “House of David.” Cataloged as epigraphic/historical evidence rather than as a proof-text for any single biblical narrative.

Date9th century BCELanguageAramaic
Ancient Near Eastern contextJewish context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_11Q19

Temple Scroll (11Q19)

One of the longest Dead Sea Scrolls, presenting an idealized temple and legal/cultic program in Hebrew. Cataloged for Second-Temple Jewish legal, architectural, and cultic research.

Datelate 2nd–1st century BCELanguageHebrew
Jewish context
InscriptionINSCRIPTION_THEODOTUS_SYNAGOGUE

Theodotus Synagogue Inscription

Greek dedicatory inscription from Jerusalem describing a synagogue built for reading the Law, teaching commandments, and accommodating visitors. It is direct epigraphic evidence for synagogue institutions in late Second-Temple Jerusalem.

Datelate 1st century BCE–before 70 CELanguageGreek
Jewish contextGreco-Roman context
Ancient literary workANCIENT_TEXT_THUCYDIDES_HISTORIES

Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War

Classical Greek literary work represented as an ancient-text entity. The linked 6.9.1 occurrence is used as evidence for political/civic usage of ἐκκλησία.

Datelate 5th century BCE compositionLanguageGreek
Greco-Roman context
ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_1QM

War Scroll (1QM)

Qumran War Scroll, a Hebrew eschatological/military composition from Cave 1. It is valuable for Jewish military, sectarian, and apocalyptic language in the late Second Temple period.

Date1st century BCE–1st century CELanguageHebrew
Jewish context
Catalog coverage

Supported evidence types

Zero means the schema/UI is ready but no curated entity has been added yet.

Manuscript11A physical manuscript/codex/scroll witness. Passage-specific readings remain separate MANUSCRIPT_EVIDENCE records.
Papyrus document1A documentary or literary papyrus record treated as an evidence entity distinct from any image/transcription rights.
Inscription4An inscribed text/object record with findspot/catalog/provenance retained when known.
Ancient literary work5An ancient literary work or corpus entity; editions/translations used to study it remain SOURCE records.
Archaeological artifact0A material object such as vessel, tool, weapon, domestic object, or cultic object.
Archaeological site0A site/context record with excavation, stratigraphy, dating, and uncertainty kept separate from interpretive claims.
Coin0A numismatic object/type record with issuing authority, legend, date, mint, and provenance where available.
Seal / bulla0A seal or bulla record; attribution and reading certainty must be explicit.
Ossuary1An ossuary record with inscription/authenticity/provenance claims kept explicit.
Ancient document0A non-papyrus documentary record such as administrative, legal, military, commercial, or household text.
Historical-context coverage

What the current catalog actually contains

These are context tags on evidence entities, not claims that an object belongs exclusively to one tradition.

Biblical textual witness8curated catalog entities
Jewish context12curated catalog entities
Christian context8curated catalog entities
Greco-Roman context6curated catalog entities
Ancient Near Eastern context1curated catalog entities
Later reception / usage3curated catalog entities