Layer 4 — Wider Archive
Wider Ancient Witness Archive
Comparative, ritual, philosophical, fragmentary, and disputed material — included so nothing is lost, and clearly separated from Scripture.
80 texts in this layer.
Everything in this layer is a comparative, historical, philosophical, ritual, textual, or fragmentary witness. None of it is presented as part of the Restored Bible.
4.1 Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom Background Archive
Instruction of Amenemope3,926 wordsInstruction of Ptahhotep4,024 wordsInstruction of Ani - Any - Anii2,225 wordsInstruction of Merikare - Instruction for King Merikare2,473 wordsThe Loyalist Instruction232 wordsThe Instruction of Kagemni205 wordsThe Satire of the Trades339 wordsThe Eloquent Peasant3,257 wordsThe Dialogue of a Man with His Soul288 wordsThe Harper’s Songs233 wordsEgyptian Hymns to the Creator302 wordsEgyptian Wisdom Fragmentary Witness Index120 wordsBabylonian Counsels of Wisdom248 wordsBabylonian Theodicy1,824 wordsThe Dialogue of Pessimism336 wordsLudlul Bel Nemeqi - I Will Praise the Lord of Wisdom2,745 wordsCounsels of a Pessimist118 wordsThe Instructions of Shuruppak248 wordsSumerian Proverbs180 wordsAkkadian Proverbs172 wordsMesopotamian Wisdom Fragmentary Witness Index84 wordsThe Monostichs of Menander137 words
4.2 Greek and Greco-Roman Moral Wisdom Background Archive
The Original Phocylides Fragments174 wordsTheognis — Select Wisdom207 wordsPseudo-Democritus — Wisdom Sayings154 wordsThe Golden Verses of Pythagoras308 wordsIsocrates — To Demonicus315 wordsEpictetus — Enchiridion - Select Sayings7,129 wordsMarcus Aurelius — Select Meditations351 wordsCleanthes — The Hymn to Zeus271 wordsMusonius Rufus — Select Ethical Fragments294 wordsPlutarch — Select Moral Extracts315 wordsGreek Gnomic Wisdom Fragmentary Index108 words
4.3 Protective, Ritual, Magical, and Esoteric Witness Archive
Greek Magical Papyri with Biblical Divine Names148 wordsJewish Magical Papyri109 wordsChristian Magical Papyri118 wordsGreek Magical Prayer Fragments with Biblical Names113 wordsAramaic Incantation Bowls156 wordsJewish Amulets and Protective Inscriptions118 wordsChristian Amulets and Protective Inscriptions109 wordsHebrew and Aramaic Protective Prayers124 wordsPsalm Amulets and Scriptural Protection Texts141 wordsPriestly Blessing Amulets127 wordsKetef Hinnom Silver Scrolls118 wordsSefer HaRazim13,554 wordsSword of Moses9,677 wordsMagical Uses of the Names of Solomon120 wordsAngelic Adjuration Fragments104 wordsDemon-Binding Prayers and Inscriptions128 wordsHealing Charms with Biblical Names120 wordsExorcistic Psalm Fragments172 wordsRitual Purity and Protection Fragments107 wordsRitual, Magical, and Protective Witness Index165 words
4.4 Hekhalot, Merkavah, Ascent, and Heavenly Palace Archive
4.5 Mandaean, Manichaean, and Late Antique Comparative Prayer Witnesses
Mandaean Ginza Rabba — Prayer Extracts130 wordsMandaean Qolasta — Prayer Selections132 wordsMandaean Baptismal Prayer Fragments105 wordsMandaean Protective Prayer Witnesses87 wordsManichaean Psalm-Book Fragments126 wordsManichaean Hymns to Jesus and the Light130 wordsManichaean Kephalaia — Prayer Extracts113 wordsCoptic Manichaean Psalm Fragments119 wordsManichaean Protective Hymn Fragments85 wordsComparative Late Antique Prayer Witness Index92 words
4.6 Syriac Christian Wisdom, Prayer, and Historical Witness Archive
Syriac Hymns and Apocryphal Psalmic Additions102 wordsEarly Syriac Prayer Fragments81 wordsOdes and Hymns from Early Syriac Tradition130 wordsSyriac Wisdom Sayings Collections103 wordsSyriac Christian Ancient Prayer Fragments83 wordsCave of Treasures — Wisdom and Prayer Extracts147 wordsBook of the Bee — Wisdom and Prayer Extracts131 wordsDoctrine of Addai — Prayer and Witness Extracts170 wordsSyriac Fragmentary Wisdom and Prayer Index100 words