The sources that this work has not consulted firsthand in the original text. An unseen source bears no weight in an argument; it stands here so that the reader knows what lies open and where a falsifier could take hold.
Ancient sources
- Schürer–Vermes–Millar I, 200–201 n. 1 — the passage where the consensus edition rejects inclusive reckoning for the Hasmoneans; read only via Cameron, though it bears in chapter 3. - AJ 15.260 and 15.299 in Greek — the demonstration of Cameron's counting rule has been recalculated, the Greek text not consulted; likewise AJ 18.106. - AJ 18.26 and 20.250 in Greek — the two of the four Josephus parallels for inclusive reckoning (3.3) that have been read only via Bernegger; AJ 15.121 and BJ 1.370 have been seen in the Loeb edition. - The Greek page image of Clement, Stromata 1.21.144–146 (ed. Stählin, GCS 52) and of Epiphanius, Panarion 51 (ed. Holl, GCS) — both have been read in translation, the Greek original not. - The passages behind Finegan's Tables 143–144 — Origen, Comm. in Matt. frag. 23; Eusebius, Quaest. ad Steph. 16.2. The hinge constraint against the minority chronology rests, for these two, on Finegan's reconstruction. - Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. 2.22.5 (ἀρχόμενος) — only via the literature.
Epigraphy and numismatics
- Meshorer, Israel Numismatic Journal 8 — the material for the civic era of Caesarea Paneas, the falsifier of chapter 3.
Modern literature
- Fotheringham, JThS xxxv (1934) 153–162 — cited as the source of the Nisan option, not read firsthand. - France, Novum Testamentum 21 (1979) 98–120; Brown, The Birth of the Messiah; Jachowski, JGRChJ 11 (2015) 9–18; Beyer (1995/1998); Johnson 1989, 93–99; Steinmann 2011, 235–238 — the entries in chapters 3, 4 and 6 that have been read only in citation, not checked firsthand. - Cullen and Loewe — the dating of the comet of 5 BC by the Chinese ganzhi cycle, the falsifier of the spring. - Cameron's own census argument (πληρόω; Agrippa I; Syllaeus) — present in the pieces treated only as an indication.
Where no defender exists
- For a birth in Tishri (Tabernacles) no ancient source and no academic defender has been found; the silence of Clement, the Chronograph of 354 and Epiphanius on an autumn day has been independently confirmed. That is not an unread source but a measured absence, and it stands as the heaviest outstanding price on the Sukkot cell.
The sources that this work has not consulted firsthand in the original text. An unseen source bears no weight in an argument; it stands here so that the reader knows what lies open and where a falsifier could take hold.
Ancient sources
- Schürer–Vermes–Millar I, 200–201 n. 1 — the passage where the consensus edition rejects inclusive reckoning for the Hasmoneans; read only via Cameron, though it bears in chapter 3. - AJ 15.260 and 15.299 in Greek — the demonstration of Cameron's counting rule has been recalculated, the Greek text not consulted; likewise AJ 18.106. - AJ 18.26 and 20.250 in Greek — the two of the four Josephus parallels for inclusive reckoning (3.3) that have been read only via Bernegger; AJ 15.121 and BJ 1.370 have been seen in the Loeb edition. - The Greek page image of Clement, Stromata 1.21.144–146 (ed. Stählin, GCS 52) and of Epiphanius, Panarion 51 (ed. Holl, GCS) — both have been read in translation, the Greek original not. - The passages behind Finegan's Tables 143–144 — Origen, Comm. in Matt. frag. 23; Eusebius, Quaest. ad Steph. 16.2. The hinge constraint against the minority chronology rests, for these two, on Finegan's reconstruction. - Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. 2.22.5 (ἀρχόμενος) — only via the literature.
Epigraphy and numismatics
- Meshorer, Israel Numismatic Journal 8 — the material for the civic era of Caesarea Paneas, the falsifier of chapter 3.
Modern literature
- Fotheringham, JThS xxxv (1934) 153–162 — cited as the source of the Nisan option, not read firsthand. - France, Novum Testamentum 21 (1979) 98–120; Brown, The Birth of the Messiah; Jachowski, JGRChJ 11 (2015) 9–18; Beyer (1995/1998); Johnson 1989, 93–99; Steinmann 2011, 235–238 — the entries in chapters 3, 4 and 6 that have been read only in citation, not checked firsthand. - Cullen and Loewe — the dating of the comet of 5 BC by the Chinese ganzhi cycle, the falsifier of the spring. - Cameron's own census argument (πληρόω; Agrippa I; Syllaeus) — present in the pieces treated only as an indication.
Where no defender exists
- For a birth in Tishri (Tabernacles) no ancient source and no academic defender has been found; the silence of Clement, the Chronograph of 354 and Epiphanius on an autumn day has been independently confirmed. That is not an unread source but a measured absence, and it stands as the heaviest outstanding price on the Sukkot cell.