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The JOSEPHUS HETERONYM CLUSTER IS AN AVAILABLE READING: John, James, Paul, Peter, and Luke as AUTHOR-FUNCTIONS within a fractured literary system\". \"An available reading\" is a careful epistemic marker and it survived composition, where a summariser might easily have rendered it as an assertion.\n\nThe two Oxford Handbook cards are genuine Josephus scholarship and one of them cuts directly against the thesis: it is \"unlikely that Josephus — undeniably a Jewish historian, as acknowledged by Christians themselves — would express the tenets of the Christians\". The standard objection to the Testimonium, placed beside a claim that Josephus underwrites the New Testament author-functions, with no note that they conflict.\n\nPOLYTONIC GREEK TRANSMITS INTACT for the third time in the corpus, after the Sappho and Cambridge captures: μολπὰ γράμμασι ζώοι → ψῆφον λευκήν, with grave accent, iota subscript and eta circumflex preserved through a citation snippet."},"measures":{"cite_list":[{"n":1,"note":null,"rel":"authored_surface","site":"Zenodo","snip":"…ieval basin. Mini[mal]…","title":"(retrieval kernel)","url":null},{"deposit":1217,"deposit_basis":"title; one version series, linked to the record of standing its supersession names","n":2,"note":"POLYTONIC GREEK TRANSMITS WHOLE in a citation snippet: μολπὰ γράμμασι ζώοι → ψῆφον λευκήν, with breathings, accents and iota subscript.","rel":"authored_surface","site":"Zenodo","snip":"v1.1 (14 June 2026). 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