Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article deals with ways in which historians may approach the task of reconstructing the intellectual discourse of ancient Yehud, as well as the feasibility of the project as a whole. It shows, in particular, how a comparative study of implied patterns of preference that shaped two sets of works that were separate in time and differentiated by literary genre, namely the prophetic books and the Book of Chronicles, contributes to this task. This article demonstrates that, despite all their differences, both sets of works shared a common, ideological, generative grammar. Certain issues tended to be raised, particular sets of ways of approaching and answering them to be used, and conceptually similar metaphors, and comparable fears and hopes, to shape the imagination of the literati for whom and by whom these books, with all their differences, were composed. This article then discusses the historical implications of this basically shared discourse and the ways in which a background of general discursive similarity makes instances of dissimilarity even more salient. A few examples of the latter are raised.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".