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    "title": "Daniel 1 — The exile to Babylon and the court training",
    "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0","sourceText":"Daniel — per-verse layered-witness reconstruction (Masoretic Text Hebrew/Aramaic per BHS Codex Leningradensis primary; DSS 4Q112-4Q116 + 1Q71-1Q72 + 6Q7 secondary where divergent; Old Greek + Theodotion-Greek tertiary where text-critically significant). Bilingual: Hebrew 1:1-2:4a + 8-12, Aramaic 2:4b-7:28.","sourceLicense":"Best-effort reconstruction; scholarly editions cited; English original to this project","sourceUrl":"(see source-1.json citations)","sourceAccessedVia":"BHS + DJD XVI 2000 + Collins 1993 Hermeneia + Goldingay 1989 WBC + Newsom 2014 OTL + Montgomery 1927 ICC PD","verificationStatus":"best-effort reconstruction; verification pending against BHS apparatus + DJD XVI 2000 DSS apparatus + original codicology","glossaryVersion":"2.69.0","overlayGlossaryVersion":"1.1.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-4-7 (translator)","claude-opus-4-7 (editor)","claude-opus-4-7 (reviewer)"],"reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-06-07T00:00:00+00:00","status":"stable","reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-4-7 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-06-07T00:00:00+00:00","verdicts":[{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:1","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:2","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. ʾădōnāy; Collins 1993 Hermeneia ad loc"],"reasoning":"Hebrew ʾădōnāy rendered 'the Lord' (lowercase title, not divine-name substitute); hā-ʾĕlōhīm preserved as 'the Elohim' per project convention with overlay glossary support."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:3","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:4","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:5","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:7","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:9","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. ʾĕlōhīm; HALOT 1.52-54"],"reasoning":"hā-ʾĕlōhīm preserved as 'the Elohim'; lexically defensible plural form; no lens leakage in English surface."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:10","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:11","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:12","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:13","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:14","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:15","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:17","status":"approve","citations":["BDB s.v. ʾĕlōhīm; HALOT 1.52-54"],"reasoning":"hā-ʾĕlōhīm preserved as 'the Elohim'; lexically defensible plural form; no lens leakage in English surface."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:18","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:19","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:20","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."},{"refId":"DAN-WOH-1:21","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Faithful rendering of MT Hebrew; matches scholarly consensus (Collins 1993; Goldingay 1989; Newsom 2014)."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"daniel-7-throne-vision-completes-four-tradition-wire-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 274-324; Halperin 1988 The Faces of the Chariot; Schäfer 2009 The Origins of Jewish Mysticism; Newsom 2014 OTL"],"reasoning":"Bidirectional wiring claim to Ezek 1 + 1 En 14 + Shi'ur Qomah + Rev 4 is fully defensible. Collins 1993 develops Dan 7 as the historical-developmental pivot of the throne-vision cluster; Halperin + Schäfer confirm the Hekhalot-trajectory inheritance. claim_type=direct correctly applied."},{"glossary_id":"son-of-man-bar-enash-dan-7-13-14-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 304-310; Casey 1979 Son of Man; Bauckham 2008 Jesus and the God of Israel chs 6-7; Boyarin 2012 The Jewish Gospels; Hurtado 1988 One God One Lord; Burkett 1999 The Son of Man Debate"],"reasoning":"Mk 14:62 + Mt 26:64 + Rev 1:7/1:13/14:14 cross-corpus chain accurate; Casey/Boyarin philological framing accurate; 'one like a son of man' lowercase-indefinite WoH-choice matches Collins/Newsom/Casey consensus on translation surface. claim_type=direct correctly applied."},{"glossary_id":"seventy-weeks-of-years-dan-9-24-27-jubilees-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 352-364; Newsom 2014 OTL; Goldingay 1989 WBC; Hartman-Di Lella 1978 AB"],"reasoning":"490 years = 10 jubilees (10 × 49) mathematical correspondence is exact. MT atnach 7-weeks/62-weeks distinction correctly preserved per BHS apparatus. Bidirectional Jubilees wiring accurate. claim_type=direct correctly applied."},{"glossary_id":"resurrection-dan-12-2-3-foundational-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Nickelsburg 2006 Resurrection, Immortality and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism (rev. ed.); Levenson 2006 Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel; Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 391-393"],"reasoning":"ḥayyê ʿōlām 'everlasting life' as only-HB-occurrence claim is accurate (per Collins). Nickelsburg + Levenson both confirm Dan 12:2 as the foundational explicit-resurrection text in the HB. rabbîm ambiguity-preservation is philologically correct. claim_type=direct."},{"glossary_id":"abomination-of-desolation-dan-9-27-11-31-12-11-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Bickerman 1937 Der Gott der Makkabäer; Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 360-364, 386-387; 1 Macc 1:54; Mt 24:15 + Mk 13:14"],"reasoning":"Bickerman's baʿal shamayin → šiqqūṣ məšōmēm apotropaic-wordplay reading is correctly attributed; Antiochus IV / 167 BCE identification per Collins is mainstream consensus. NT quotation-form preservation (vs NRSV 'desolating sacrilege') makes cross-corpus visible. claim_type=direct."},{"glossary_id":"michael-as-israels-prince-angel-dan-10-13-21-12-1-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 374-377; Hannah 1999 Michael and Christ; LXX/DSS Deut 32:8-9 (4QDeut^j confirms 'sons of God/Elohim' reading); 1QM XVII 6-8"],"reasoning":"LXX/DSS Deut 32:8-9 'sons of God' allotment framework correctly cited (4QDeut^j has bny ʾlhym confirming LXX huiōn theou against MT bny yśrʾl). Hannah 1999 confirms Michael-Christology trajectory. Plurality of chief-princes preserved. claim_type=direct."},{"glossary_id":"four-kingdoms-statue-stone-cut-without-hands-dan-2-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 161-170; Newsom 2014 OTL; Hartman-Di Lella 1978 AB"],"reasoning":"Babylon-Media-Persia-Greece identification per Collins is mainstream critical consensus (vs Josephus/Christian-traditional Babylon-Medo-Persia-Greece-Rome); both readings preserved in apparatus per claim_type=direct framing."},{"glossary_id":"angelic-figure-dan-10-5-6-revelation-1-13-15-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 372-374; Beale 1999 NIGTC Revelation pp 208-213; Aune 1997 WBC Revelation 1-5"],"reasoning":"Seven-attribute verbal-borrowing claim at Rev 1:13-15 is well-attested in NT scholarship (Beale 1999 + Aune 1997). Each attribute (linen-vestment, Uphaz gold, beryl body, lightning face, fire-torch eyes, burnished-bronze limbs, voice-as-multitude) traceable. claim_type=direct correct."},{"glossary_id":"mene-mene-tekel-upharsin-dan-5-25-28-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Wolters 1991 'The Riddle of the Scales in Daniel 5' HUCA 62; Wolters 1995 'Untying the King's Knots' JBL 110; Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 250-253; Ziegler-Munnich 1999 Septuaginta XVI.2 (OG single-MENE apparatus)"],"reasoning":"Wolters 1991/1995 triple-wordplay reading correctly attributed. OG single-MENE variant correctly noted; WoH preserves MT duplicated per principal-witness convention. claim_type=direct."},{"glossary_id":"daniel-bilingual-hebrew-aramaic-structure-2-4b-7-28-convention","status":"approve","citations":["Ulrich et al. 2000 DJD XVI 'Daniel'; Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 12-24; Newsom 2014 OTL Introduction"],"reasoning":"DSS 4Q112 (Daniela late 2nd c. BCE) + 4Q113 (Danielb) preserve the bilingual structure transitions, confirming originality per Ulrich DJD XVI 2000. The three principal scholarly hypotheses (originally bilingual / Hebrew-with-Aramaic-translation / Aramaic-core-with-Hebrew-frame) correctly summarized. claim_type=direct."},{"glossary_id":"ancient-of-days-attik-yomin-dan-7-9-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 300-303; Newsom 2014 OTL ad 7:9; Beale 1999 NIGTC Revelation 1:14"],"reasoning":"Aramaic ʿAttiq Yomin philology correct; Rev 1:14 white-hair-as-wool-as-snow verbal-borrowing well-attested. claim_type=direct."},{"glossary_id":"sealed-book-dan-12-4-9-revelation-jubilees-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":["Collins 1993 Hermeneia pp 393-395, 399-400; Beale 1999 NIGTC Revelation 5:1 + 22:10"],"reasoning":"Dan 12 sealed-book / Rev 22:10 reversal correctly identified; Rev 5:1 seven-sealed scroll reception correctly noted. claim_type=direct."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}},
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:1",
        "text": "In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:2",
        "text": "And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of the Elohim; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and the vessels he brought into the treasury of his god."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:3",
        "text": "And the king commanded Ashpenaz, the chief of his eunuchs, to bring some of the sons of Israel, both of the royal seed and of the nobles—"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:4",
        "text": "youths in whom was no blemish, well-favored in appearance, skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace; and to teach them the writing and the tongue of the Chaldeans."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:5",
        "text": "And the king assigned them a daily portion from the king's rations and from the wine he drank, and that they should be reared for three years, after which they should stand before the king."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:6",
        "text": "And among them were, of the sons of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:7",
        "text": "And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abed-nego."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:8",
        "text": "But Daniel resolved in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's rations or with the wine he drank; and he asked of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:9",
        "text": "And the Elohim granted Daniel favor and compassion before the chief of the eunuchs."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:10",
        "text": "And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, \"I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and drink; for why should he see your faces gaunter than the youths of your own age? You would endanger my head before the king.\""
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:11",
        "text": "Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:12",
        "text": "\"Test your servants, I pray you, for ten days; let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:13",
        "text": "Then let our countenances be examined before you, alongside the countenance of the youths who eat the king's rations; and deal with your servants according to what you see.\""
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:14",
        "text": "So he hearkened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:15",
        "text": "And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and their flesh fuller than all the youths who ate the king's rations."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:16",
        "text": "So the steward took away their rations and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:17",
        "text": "And as for these four youths, the Elohim gave them knowledge and skill in all writing and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in every vision and dream."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:18",
        "text": "And at the end of the days which the king had appointed for their presentation, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:19",
        "text": "And the king spoke with them; and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; so they stood before the king."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:20",
        "text": "And in every matter of wisdom and understanding concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his realm."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "DAN-WOH-1:21",
        "text": "And Daniel continued unto the first year of King Cyrus."
      }
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