Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: This study is an initial attempt to unveil the first three years of Christianity. A strict adherence to the seven genuine letters of Paul establishes a clear identification of principal details concerning earliest Christianity. Leaving aside any secondary source, notably the Acts of the Apostles, and spelling out the reasons for doing so, the value of such an approach is put to the test by constructing the chronology of Paul (the first thirty years of Christianity) on the sole basis of the authentic letters. This initial analysis not only demonstrates the ability to construct a history of earliest Christianity using this method, but also concretely illuminates certain facts that otherwise (using Acts) are dealt with in less accurate ways. In a second step this method is applied exclusively to the first three years of Christianity. By examining two rituals of the Christian group persecuted by Paul—baptism and the Lord's Supper—and reconstructing the first three years of Christianity on the basis of 1 Corinthians 15:3–7 and other pre-Pauline creeds, a stark geographic and ethnographic distinction between the earliest Christian communities—Jerusalem and Damascus being the centres—can be observed. Indeed, the case is being made that within three years of the death of Jesus, these two distinctive Christian communities have arisen. Moreover we are able to identify Paul's affiliation with Damascus-Christianity and then associate this powerful influence with what would become catholic Christianity. This study finally establishes a framework for further inquiries into the first three years of Christianity, giving Paul's genuine letters primary consideration.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".