Comparisons

Original long-form essays from Ad Fontes, arguing only from texts the library itself hosts, plus manuscript evidence cited to public collections. Every ancient passage quoted is linked to its work page.

The four seed essays of Days 17–18 are chosen by the editors. Every comparison after them is demand-led: topics are picked from what readers actually search for, not from an editor’s list.

Comparisons I — Day 17

How Church Fathers preserve Jewish traditions absent from surviving rabbinic texts — Justin, Origen, Eusebius and the fragments volume: traditions quoted or argued with that have no surviving rabbinic parallel, and one famous case where the “lost tradition” is probably not lost at all.
Septuagint versus Hebrew readings, with manuscript evidence — selected passages where the Greek reading diverges from the Masoretic reading, with the Dead Sea Scrolls and other witnesses named, and the Greek quoted from the public-domain Swete edition.

Coming next

Day 18 adds two further essays: Greek philosophical terminology in Philo and early Jewish literature, and parallel passages between ancient authors, drawn from the Connections index.