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Record W4365923556 · doi:10.46472/cc.01208.0233

Trailing the Paper Moon: Astronomical Interpretations of Exodus 12:1-2

2004· article· en· W4365923556 on OpenAlexaff
A. Lobel

Bibliographic record

VenueCulture and Cosmos · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicBiblical Studies and Interpretation
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLiteratureMidrashJudaismSensibilityPhilosophyJewish thoughtFaithPoetryHistoryArtTheology

Abstract

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This poster presentation will trace the historical interpretive arc inspired by Exodus 12:1-2 and its commandment to observe the new moon and keep a calendar. An examination of religious sensibilities as filtered through the prism of these two Bible verses, this presentation will outline manifold interpretations found in Jewish and early Christian literature from the Biblical era through medieval times. The literary sources to be examined will span the poetic and fanciful sensibility of Midrash, the magical and literary bent of the Pseudepigrapha, as well as the thematic reframing of lunar motifs in the Patristic literature. Other religious and literary writings to be summarized will include those of ancient Jewish commentators such as the Tannaim, Amoraim, and later Medieval thinkers, as well as those of the Church Fathers and Biblical faith groups such as the Samaritans. Throughout, the emphasis will be upon understanding the interpretive literary trajectory of these verses, as well as upon the light these religious, calendrical and astronomical interpretations have shed upon the writers’ changing understanding of humanity¹s place in the cosmos.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.962
Threshold uncertainty score0.350

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.222
Teacher spread0.201 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
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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