{
 "corpus": "slavonic-josephus",
 "set": "the eight Jesus-and-John passages",
 "status": "CONTESTED — carried as reception data, never as canonical Josephus",
 "defined_by": "deposit #1176 (AXN:04A9), The Word That Became Text, Appendix II",
 "witnesses": {
  "Berendts 1906": "German rendering of the eight; public domain; scan not yet located (see NEGATIVE-SEARCH.md)",
  "Meshcherskii 1958": "critical Russian text; in copyright; cited not seated",
  "Leeming & Leeming 2003": "synoptic English edition (Brill); in copyright; cited not seated"
 },
 "transmission": "Popov 1866 (first notice) → Sreznevsky 1879 (Rus' chronicle language) → Berendts 1906 (translation + Vorlage thesis) → Eisler 1931 vs. Zeitlin–Feldman–Meier consensus → Pines 1971 (Syriac-corridor plausibility)",
 "pericopes": [
  {
   "id": "P1",
   "title": "Prophecy of the Child",
   "paraphrase": "A man foretold a child born in Bethlehem.",
   "provenance": "collated in #1176 from Leeming & Leeming with Berendts and Meshcherskii consulted",
   "status": "CONTESTED"
  },
  {
   "id": "P2",
   "title": "John the Baptizer",
   "paraphrase": "Body cleansed after the soul by justice.",
   "provenance": "collated in #1176 from Leeming & Leeming with Berendts and Meshcherskii consulted",
   "status": "CONTESTED"
  },
  {
   "id": "P3",
   "title": "The Teacher (Incarnate Logos)",
   "paraphrase": "If it is lawful to call him man… word and act.",
   "provenance": "collated in #1176 from Leeming & Leeming with Berendts and Meshcherskii consulted",
   "status": "CONTESTED"
  },
  {
   "id": "P4",
   "title": "Herod's Inscription",
   "paraphrase": "Write down his words.",
   "provenance": "collated in #1176 from Leeming & Leeming with Berendts and Meshcherskii consulted",
   "status": "CONTESTED"
  },
  {
   "id": "P5",
   "title": "Temple Saying",
   "paraphrase": "Temple would fall… not made with hands.",
   "provenance": "collated in #1176 from Leeming & Leeming with Berendts and Meshcherskii consulted",
   "status": "CONTESTED"
  },
  {
   "id": "P6",
   "title": "After-Death Report",
   "paraphrase": "Seen alive after three days; they lived by his teaching.",
   "provenance": "collated in #1176 from Leeming & Leeming with Berendts and Meshcherskii consulted",
   "status": "CONTESTED"
  },
  {
   "id": "P7",
   "title": "Moral Maxims",
   "paraphrase": "Blessed… cursed he who writes falsely.",
   "provenance": "collated in #1176 from Leeming & Leeming with Berendts and Meshcherskii consulted",
   "status": "CONTESTED"
  },
  {
   "id": "P8",
   "title": "Epilogue",
   "paraphrase": "Nothing written in truth perishes.",
   "provenance": "collated in #1176 from Leeming & Leeming with Berendts and Meshcherskii consulted",
   "status": "CONTESTED"
  }
 ]
}