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 "title": "История Иудейской войны Иосифа Флавия в древнерусском переводе, ed. N. A. Meshcherskii (Moscow–Leningrad: Akademiia Nauk SSSR, 1958): the Old Russian text of the seven books",
 "edition": "Meshcherskii 1958, the TEXTS section (books I–VII), printed from the Vilna Chronograph (16th c.) with variants from eight manuscripts of the 15th–16th c.; the Internet Archive's text layer",
 "language": "orv",
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  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
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 "fetched": "2026-11-12",
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     "Мещерский Н.А. - История иудейской войны Иосифа Флавия в древнерусском переводе (1958)_djvu.txt",
     "Мещерский Н.А. - История иудейской войны Иосифа Флавия в древнерусском переводе (1958).pdf (by reference, 75,066,705 bytes)"
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    "excerpt": "lines 9334–31517 of the _djvu.txt as served: from the heading ТЕКСТЫ to the line before КОММЕНТАРИИ"
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  "fetched": "2026-11-12",
  "transport": "in-session fetch (Transport D); No-Double-Draw"
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  "units": "one text file per work",
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    "work": "История Иудейской войны (the Old Russian Jewish War), books I–VII, Meshcherskii 1958",
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 "scope": "All seven books in the language of the translation: the eight Jesus-and-John passages in their places and every other divergence from the Greek.",
 "why_seated": "The Slavonic text layer the 2026-08-19 search could not find; held in the original language.",
 "verified_loci": [
  "War II after 174, the wonder-worker: 'At that time there appeared a certain man, if it is fitting to call him a man' — 'явися мужь нзкыи, и аще мужем достоино есть его'",
  "the same passage: 'therefore it is impossible for me to call him a man' — 'немощно ми есть нарещи его челов$ком'",
  "the rubric before it in the manuscript and in A: 'Josephus writes of Christ' — 'Иосиф о ХристБ пишет'",
  "Book I begins — 'КНИГА ПЕРВАЯ'",
  "Book VII — 'КНИГА СЕДЬМАЯ'"
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 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-11-12 12:48 EST: \"also, we need to seat as much of slavonic josephus as possible, source language translation or both - we werent previously able to locate a full copy\"; the standing rule for originals-library seatings, 2026-10-18: \"original language where available always\".",
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  "study": "The Josephus Thesis (#1759) and the mine of the Ethiopian canon for the Josephus Thesis and Revelation First (2026-11-12)",
  "for": "the Testimonium's hedge (AJ 18.63 εἴγε ἄνδρα αὐτὸν λέγειν χρή) beside the Slavonic 'if it is fitting to call him a man', Catullus 51.2 si fas est and Philo's εἰ θέμις εἰπεῖν; the custody of Josephus's name in transmission (Yosippon, Zena Ayhud)",
  "supersedes_negative_search": "slavonic-josephus/NEGATIVE-SEARCH.md (2026-08-19), which found no openly served text of the recension; EA-CORPORA-01/12 stays as the index of the eight passages"
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