[
 {
  "work": "targ-sheni-esth",
  "title": "Targum Sheni on Esther",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "geonic",
  "language": "aramaic",
  "date_range": [
   600,
   1000
  ],
  "license": "cc-by-sa",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Berlin, 1898",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "Targum Sheni",
   "critical": "geonic-era, composite",
   "note": "Sefaria's own version returns license:unknown but its versionSource IS he.wikisource; treated as CC BY-SA per PLAN.md Sec.4.3 ruling."
  },
  "paragraphs": 301,
  "counts": {
   "soft-yes": 18,
   "motif": 45,
   "verbatim": 7
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "targ-rishon-esth",
  "title": "Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "amoraic-geonic",
  "language": "aramaic",
  "date_range": [
   400,
   800
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Mikraot Gedolot",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "Targum Rishon",
   "critical": "Mikraot Gedolot standard text",
   "note": ""
  },
  "paragraphs": 167,
  "counts": {
   "soft-yes": 24,
   "motif": 14
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "b-megillah",
  "title": "Bavli Megillah 9a-17a",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "amoraic",
  "language": "aramaic",
  "date_range": [
   200,
   500
  ],
  "license": "cc-by-sa",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Wikisource Talmud Bavli",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "Bavli",
   "critical": "redacted geonic era",
   "note": "the Talmai list is 9a-b"
  },
  "paragraphs": 339,
  "counts": {
   "motif": 53,
   "soft-yes": 12
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "b-sanhedrin",
  "title": "Bavli Sanhedrin 92b-93b",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "amoraic",
  "language": "aramaic",
  "date_range": [
   200,
   500
  ],
  "license": "cc-by-sa",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Wikisource Talmud Bavli",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "Bavli",
   "critical": "redacted geonic era",
   "note": "Susanna control (P10)"
  },
  "paragraphs": 53,
  "counts": {}
 },
 {
  "work": "b-bava-batra",
  "title": "Bavli Bava Batra 14b-16b",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "amoraic",
  "language": "aramaic",
  "date_range": [
   200,
   500
  ],
  "license": "cc-by-sa",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Wikisource Talmud Bavli",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "Bavli",
   "critical": "redacted geonic era",
   "note": "Job negative control (N01)"
  },
  "paragraphs": 85,
  "counts": {}
 },
 {
  "work": "rashi-esther",
  "title": "Rashi on Esther",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "rashi",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1040,
   1105
  ],
  "license": "cc-by",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "The Metsudah Five Megillot, Lakewood, N.J., 2001",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "Rashi",
   "critical": "Rashi",
   "note": "may reflect Rashi's own manuscripts, not a tradition -- conduit hebrew-vorlage with a note (PLAN.md Sec.10)"
  },
  "paragraphs": 148,
  "counts": {
   "motif": 10
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "rashi-megillah",
  "title": "Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "rashi",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1040,
   1105
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Vilna Edition",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "Rashi",
   "critical": "Rashi",
   "note": ""
  },
  "paragraphs": 392,
  "counts": {
   "motif": 65,
   "soft-yes": 11
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "pdre",
  "title": "Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer 49-50",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "geonic",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   750,
   850
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Pirke DeRabbi Eliezer, Sefaria Vocalized Edition",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "R. Eliezer ben Hyrcanus",
   "critical": "8th-c. composite, pseudepigraphic attribution",
   "note": ""
  },
  "paragraphs": 25,
  "counts": {
   "soft-yes": 14
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "gen-rabbah-68",
  "title": "Genesis Rabbah 68",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "amoraic",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   300,
   500
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Daat Bereshit Rabbah",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "amoraic midrash",
   "critical": "5th-c. redaction",
   "note": "Bel/dragon control (P09)"
  },
  "paragraphs": 13,
  "counts": {}
 },
 {
  "work": "otzar-mordecai-dream",
  "title": "Otzar Midrashim: Mordechai's Dream and Additions to the Book of Esther",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1100,
   1300
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "R. Jacob ben Makhir",
   "critical": "Hebrew translation FROM the Latin Vulgate (Jerome's preface retained)",
   "note": "machinery control M1 -- a Hebrew form of the pluses themselves, retranslated from Latin"
  },
  "paragraphs": 18,
  "counts": {}
 },
 {
  "work": "otzar-prayer-mord-esth",
  "title": "Otzar Midrashim: The Prayer of Mordechai and Esther (Hebrew and Aramaic)",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew-aramaic",
  "date_range": [
   950,
   1300
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "anonymous",
   "critical": "Aramaic Dream of Mordecai + prayers, with a Hebrew rendering",
   "note": "machinery control M2 The Aramaic Dream of Mordecai is a targum of Sefer Yosippon (McDowell 2025), so post-953; conduit medieval-retranslation, not aramaic. Phase 6c CB-2."
  },
  "paragraphs": 8,
  "counts": {}
 },
 {
  "work": "otzar-story-daniel",
  "title": "Otzar Midrashim: The Story of Daniel (Ma'aseh Daniel)",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1000,
   1300
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "anonymous",
   "critical": "apocalyptic Daniel narrative",
   "note": "FAILED as machinery control M3 -- contains neither Susanna nor Bel; kept on the bench as ordinary Daniel-stratum material for the Daniel extension"
  },
  "paragraphs": 19,
  "counts": {}
 },
 {
  "work": "otzar-esth-intro",
  "title": "Otzar Midrashim: Midrashim on Megilat Esther, Introduction",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1000,
   1500
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "Eisenstein (compiler)",
   "critical": "compiled anthology introduction",
   "note": ""
  },
  "paragraphs": 6,
  "counts": {}
 },
 {
  "work": "otzar-midr-book-esth",
  "title": "Otzar Midrashim: Midrash on the Book of Esther",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1200,
   1300
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "anonymous",
   "critical": "Midrash Megillat Esther, printed Constantinople 1519; an anthology copying b. Megillah, PdRE, Abba Gurion, Esther Rabbah and both Targums in their own language; Horowitz: 13th c., Egypt or Arabia",
   "note": "Source: Eisenstein's introduction, otzar-esth-intro-1571, and the piece's own header (otzar-midr-book-esth-1577). Corrected 2026-09-13."
  },
  "paragraphs": 10,
  "counts": {
   "soft-yes": 24
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "otzar-drash-purim",
  "title": "Otzar Midrashim: Drash on Purim",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1000,
   1500
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "anonymous",
   "critical": "Derash le-Purim, ed. Jellinek, Bet ha-Midrasch VI 53-58; a small pesikta-like homily; undated",
   "note": "Source: Eisenstein's introduction, otzar-esth-intro-1572, and the piece's own header. Date range left at the generic medieval span. Corrected 2026-09-13."
  },
  "paragraphs": 10,
  "counts": {
   "soft-yes": 2,
   "motif": 2
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "otzar-midr-megillah",
  "title": "Otzar Midrashim: Midrash on the Megillah (of Esther)",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   600,
   1000
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "anonymous",
   "critical": "Midrash Megillah, ed. Gaster from a 10th-century manuscript (Semitic Studies in Memory of A. Kohut, 1897, 167-178); Gaster held it the earliest Esther midrash, from Babylonia or Persia",
   "note": "Source: Eisenstein's introduction, otzar-esth-intro-1572, and the piece's own header. Date range = before the 10th-c. manuscript; Gaster's priority claim not independently checked. Corrected 2026-09-13."
  },
  "paragraphs": 9,
  "counts": {
   "soft-yes": 3,
   "motif": 3
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "otzar-mordecai-esther",
  "title": "Otzar Midrashim: Mordechai & Esther",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1000,
   1500
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "anonymous",
   "critical": "one-segment entry",
   "note": "very short (2 words) -- essentially a cross-reference stub"
  },
  "paragraphs": 1,
  "counts": {}
 },
 {
  "work": "otzar-panim-acheirim-stub",
  "title": "Otzar Midrashim: Panim Acheirim (stub)",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1000,
   1500
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "anonymous",
   "critical": "one-segment 'see Esther' pointer, not the work",
   "note": "kept as EVIDENCE of the stub, per PLAN.md Sec.4.3; the real text is Sefaria's own indexed Sifrei Aggadah on Esther (panim-acherim-1/-2), found 2026-09-12"
  },
  "paragraphs": 1,
  "counts": {}
 },
 {
  "work": "otzar-abba-gorion-stub",
  "title": "Otzar Midrashim: Midrash Abba Gorion (stub)",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1000,
   1500
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Otzar Midrashim, New York, 1915",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "anonymous",
   "critical": "one-segment 'see Esther' pointer, not the work",
   "note": "kept as EVIDENCE of the stub; the real text is Sefaria's own indexed Sifrei Aggadah on Esther (abba-guryon), found 2026-09-12 -- see notes/ABBA-GORION-CORRECTION.md"
  },
  "paragraphs": 2,
  "counts": {}
 },
 {
  "work": "panim-acherim-1",
  "title": "Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1000,
   1300
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Vilna, 1886",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "anonymous",
   "critical": "Buber's edition, recension I",
   "note": "found 2026-09-12 via the scripture-refs.py links probe; supersedes the Wikisource pull for bench purposes"
  },
  "paragraphs": 30,
  "counts": {
   "soft-yes": 10,
   "motif": 10
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "panim-acherim-2",
  "title": "Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1000,
   1300
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Vilna, 1886",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "anonymous",
   "critical": "Buber's edition, recension II",
   "note": "found 2026-09-12 via the scripture-refs.py links probe; supersedes the Wikisource pull for bench purposes"
  },
  "paragraphs": 99,
  "counts": {
   "soft-yes": 33,
   "motif": 36
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "abba-guryon",
  "title": "Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Abba Guryon",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   850,
   1300
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Vilna, 1886",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "anonymous",
   "critical": "Buber's edition",
   "note": "found 2026-09-12 -- REVERSES the earlier 'needs OCR' finding; notes/ABBA-GORION-CORRECTION.md"
  },
  "paragraphs": 68,
  "counts": {
   "soft-yes": 16,
   "motif": 11
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "targ-job-42",
  "title": "Aramaic Targum to Job 42",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "amoraic-geonic",
  "language": "aramaic",
  "date_range": [
   400,
   800
  ],
  "license": "pd",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Mikraot Gedolot",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "Targum to Job",
   "critical": "Mikraot Gedolot standard text",
   "note": "Job=Jobab control (N01)"
  },
  "paragraphs": 17,
  "counts": {}
 },
 {
  "work": "yalkut-esther",
  "title": "Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1200,
   1300
  ],
  "license": "unknown",
  "source": "sefaria",
  "version": "Yalkut Shimoni on Nach",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "R. Shimon of Frankfurt (attrib.)",
   "critical": "13th-c. anthology of Tannaitic/Amoraic sources",
   "note": "range found by content probe 2026-09-12, no book-level index on Sefaria (1046 opens Esther, 1062 is already Daniel)"
  },
  "paragraphs": 172,
  "counts": {
   "soft-yes": 32,
   "verbatim": 4,
   "motif": 31
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "esther-rabbah",
  "title": "Esther Rabbah",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "amoraic-geonic",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   400,
   1150
  ],
  "license": "cc-by-sa",
  "source": "wikisource",
  "version": "he.wikisource, Vilna pagination",
  "strata": [
   {
    "part": "ER-2",
    "match": "^Esther Rabbah [זחטי](\\s|$)",
    "stratum": "medieval",
    "date_range": [
     1000,
     1150
    ],
    "note": "Vilna parashot 7-10 (Esther Rabbah II), redacted c. 11th c.; borrows the Additions from Sefer Yosippon (Herr, EJ; Atzmon, JSIJ 6 (2007); Theodor, JE). Phase 6c CB-3."
   },
   {
    "part": "ER-1",
    "match": "^Esther Rabbah ",
    "stratum": "amoraic",
    "date_range": [
     400,
     600
    ],
    "note": "Petihtot + parashot 1-6 (Esther Rabbah I), Eretz Israel, not later than early 6th c. (Herr, EJ)."
   }
  ],
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "amoraic/geonic midrash",
   "critical": "composite, multiple strata",
   "note": "he.wikisource (NOT Sefaria, whose only Hebrew is barred Torat Emet). The page itself carries a Torat Emet CC BY-SA credit; ruled usable on WIKISOURCE'S licence 2026-09-12 (PLAN.md Sec.4.2). Chapter 8 recension differs from Sefaria's Torat Emet text (8:7's Esther prayer is Wikisource-only, P12). Two works combined by a copyist in the 12th/13th c. (Herr); see `strata`."
  },
  "paragraphs": 114,
  "counts": {
   "soft-yes": 26,
   "verbatim": 19,
   "motif": 4
  }
 },
 {
  "work": "panim-aherim",
  "title": "Panim Aherim (both recensions)",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "medieval",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1000,
   1300
  ],
  "license": "cc-by-sa",
  "source": "wikisource",
  "version": "he.wikisource",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "anonymous",
   "critical": "two independent recensions (Nusach A, Nusach B)",
   "note": "confirmed complete on he.wikisource 2026-09-12, both recensions present SUPERSEDED 2026-09-12 by Sefaria's panim-acherim-1/-2 (Buber's Vilna 1886, PD, verse-indexed); this Wikisource row is NOT in data/bench.json, kept here only as a record of the source."
  },
  "paragraphs": 0,
  "counts": {}
 },
 {
  "work": "tosefet-esther-wikisource",
  "title": "Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew)",
  "tradition": "jewish",
  "stratum": "modern-anthology",
  "language": "hebrew",
  "date_range": [
   1200,
   2020
  ],
  "license": "cc-by-sa",
  "source": "wikisource",
  "version": "he.wikisource",
  "strata": null,
  "attribution": {
   "stated": "mixed per section (see note)",
   "critical": "a modern (contemporary) he.wikisource page titled \"תוספות למגילת אסתר\" -- \"Additions to the Scroll of Esther\", i.e. the Apocryphal Additions themselves, NOT the medieval Tosafists' commentary genre. The false-cognate title misled Phase 2's pull script into the work key/title 'Tosafot on Megillah'; corrected 2026-09-12 (Phase 4 Pass A finding).",
   "note": "Per its own source table (bench record tosefet-esther-wikisource-2118): the eunuchs-plot, dream-interpretation, and both edicts sections are Jacob ben Makhir's 13th-c. Hebrew retroversion (via Jellinek's Beit ha-Midrash, the SAME source Otzar Midrashim's otzar-mordecai-dream draws on); Mordecai's dream and both prayer sections are copied VERBATIM from Esther Rabbah ח ה / ח ז / ט ז -- i.e. NOT an independent witness for those sections, but a republication of the esther-rabbah bench work. A study using this work should treat those specific sections as duplicates of esther-rabbah, not new evidence."
  },
  "paragraphs": 15,
  "counts": {
   "verbatim": 35
  }
 }
]