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Public records, relationships, and claims are explicitly provisional and remain outside the canonical research corpus until catalogue, language, custodial, and specialist review is completed.", "rules": [ "A physical witness date is not a composition date.", "A translation is not an unmediated original.", "A critical reconstruction is not a physical artifact.", "Regional unavailability is not global loss.", "European acquisition is not the survival event of the text.", "Absence from one bounded corpus does not establish historical nonexistence.", "Quotation does not automatically establish canonical status.", "The Book of Giants remains a related but distinct work unless a claim is explicitly labeled and sourced.", "Modern technological and extraterrestrial readings belong to reception history, not ancient manuscript evidence.", "No numerical authenticity, trust, canon, or theological truth score is generated." ] }, "question": { "id": "ENO-Q-005", "slug": "how-does-book-of-giants-relate", "path": "/enoch/questions/how-does-book-of-giants-relate", "title": "How does the Book of Giants relate to 1 Enoch?", "shortTitle": "Book of Giants boundary", "domain": "corpus", "status": "open-dispute", "summary": "The safest public classification is “related distinct Enochic work.” Stronger claims about anthology position or replacement remain proposals.", "whyItMatters": "The work shares Watcher traditions and manuscript proximity with Enochic materials, but relation does not automatically establish inclusion.", "boundedAnswer": "The Book of Giants is materially attested as an ancient related work with its own narrative and transmission history.", "cannotConclude": "The current evidence does not establish that it was a standard chapter of every Enochic anthology or that the Parables universally replaced it.", "positions": [ { "id": "ENO-Q-005-P1", "label": "Related distinct work", "type": "bounded-conclusion", "statement": "The Book of Giants 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