{ "format": "christ.cx.enoch-research-question-export.v1", "generatedAtUtc": "2026-08-26T00:00:00Z", "boundary": { "title": "Working records, not a manufactured original", "summary": "Phase 26 is a source-informed evidence network and record workbench built from twelve private dossiers. 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-002", "slug": "what-does-qumran-establish", "path": "/enoch/questions/what-does-qumran-establish", "title": "What does Qumran establish about Enochic literature?", "shortTitle": "What Qumran establishes", "domain": "manuscripts", "status": "bounded-answer-with-open-issues", "summary": "The Aramaic finds materially establish the antiquity and diversity of major Enochic traditions, while also exposing a corpus that differs from the later complete Geʽez anthology.", "whyItMatters": "Qumran is often described either as merely confirming the later book or as invalidating it. Both simplifications lose the evidentiary change.", "boundedAnswer": "The identified fragments support early Aramaic circulation of several booklets and the Book of Giants. 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