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Record W4412772763 · doi:10.1163/15700631-bja10108

Sabbath Observance during the Second Jewish Revolt (132–135/6 CE)

2025· article· en· W4412772763 on OpenAlexaff
Jonathan Bourgel

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal for the Study of Judaism · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicArchaeology and Historical Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversité Laval
Fundersnot available
KeywordsJewish studiesJudaismHistoryReligious studiesAncient historyTheologyPhilosophyArchaeology

Abstract

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Abstract The discovery of the Bar Kokhba letters in the Judean Desert has provided invaluable insights into the structural, organizational, and administrative aspects of the short-lived state under the leadership of Shimʿon Bar Kosiba (132–135/6 CE ). Numerous documents in this collection address the observance of religious commandments; two letters, P.Yadin 50 (= 5/6Ḥev 50) and Mur 44, specifically emphasize the observance of the Sabbath. The purpose of this study is to show that these letters not only underscore the meticulousness of Bar Kosiba and his followers concerning religious matters associated with the Sabbath, but also shed light on the difficulties of adhering to its observance amidst wartime circumstances. Drawing on an analysis of these letters, alongside literary sources and archaeological discoveries related to the Second Revolt, the article also investigates the likely position of Bar Kosiba’s adherents on this complex issue.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.032
Threshold uncertainty score0.063

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.004
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.039
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.226 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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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