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Six independent attestations that the seventh-year release was actually kept. Zero attestations that a Jubilee was ever observed — not one contract, not one recorded reversion, not one complaint about one.
Geometry, Release: A reading: the release that fit inside one lifetime ran; the one that would have reset every holding never did.
In plain words
Six independent records show the seventh-year release kept; not one shows a Jubilee, not a contract, not a return of land, not even a complaint. The letter's finding: the cheap cycle that fit inside one working life ran for centuries, and the costly one that would have undone accumulated wealth was never once carried out.
The mechanism
RELEASE RAN AND RESTORATION NEVER DID — the cheap fast cycle, whose horizon fits inside one working life, was kept for centuries; the expensive slow cycle, the one that would have unwound accumulated holdings, was never once executed. Strongest statement first: the mechanism that survives is the mechanism whose cost falls inside a single person's planning window, and that is the finding, not an absence of data.
How it was checked
- EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: COMMITTED; a capture; a release
- Letter eraTHE WITNESSES AND THE TURN 44 to 312 AD
- SourcesPRIMARY DOCUMENT + SECULAR RECORD — the six sabbatical attestations (331/330, 163/162, 136/135, 37/36 BC; 55/56, 132/133 AD) plus Caesar's tribute remission, against a complete absence for the Jubilee
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