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Record W2118053393 · doi:10.1177/0951820708096651

The Binitarian Nature of the Book of Similitudes

2008· article· en· W2118053393 on OpenAlexaff
Steven Richard Scott

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicBiblical Studies and Interpretation
Canadian institutionsWilfrid Laurier UniversityUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWorshipJudaismPhilosophyReading (process)LiteratureReligious studiesHistoryArtTheologyLinguistics

Abstract

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This study argues that there is evidence of binitarianism within Second Temple Judaism. A careful and close reading of the Book of Similitudes indicates that a distinction is made between the Lord of Spirits and the Name of the Lord of Spirits. Not only this, but the Name of the Lord of Spirits appears to be the same person as the figure that looks like a Son of Man and is variously referred to as the Chosen One, the Righteous One, and the Anointed. Such a distinction and equation would help explain why the earliest Christians would worship Jesus as an aspect of God. Also, if correct, the thesis would require a re-appraisal of Second Temple Judaism with regard to the nature of its monotheistic outlook.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.319
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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