Neville recalls his old teacher Abdullah, an Ethiopian-born Negro Jew, telling him years ago never to think of Christ except as a child.
Neville says Abdullah repeatedly instructed him never to think of Christ except as the Christ child and describes the teacher as deeply knowledgeable about Christianity and Hebrew scripture.
Date (happened)
between 1929 and 1936
unresolved
before 8 December 1964
bound
Source
bound from the telling lecture nid 1840 (1964-12-08)
Reasoning
The event is told in the past tense in nid 1840, delivered 1964-12-08 (that claim's confidence: certain, preferred), so it had happened by that date. This is the same premise phase4 L6a and L4.5 rest on, stated at the precision the evidence actually supports rather than as a fabricated year. It replaces nothing: the 1900 placeholder row remains, lowered, as the record of what phase3b did. `bound` is never `preferred`, so this does not change what the event displays.
between 1929 and 1936
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 008)
Reasoning
'Years and years ago from my old friend Abdullah' (passage 546383); the chronology dates his meeting with Abdullah to 1929-1931 (events 963, 962, 765) and says he studied Hebrew with him for five years (event 19859), with Abdullah still instructing him in 1933 (event 786).
c. 1900
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900: year 1900 here is not a date. `corpus v1 / phase3b` emitted it as a placeholder for "unknown, sometime before the telling" whenever the speaker used a vague temporal phrase — this row's own source note is the phrase. The same sentinel was identified and converged on in run v1.1/l0.5/retype/w1-conv. It carried confidence `probable`, which no evidence supported. Lowered to `doubtful`; an honest `before 1964-12-08` bound is appended alongside from the telling lecture (nid 1840). Nothing deleted, no year invented. || v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900-refute: REFUTED. This event involves Neville himself and he was born 1905-02-19 (event 950 delta 9, `certain` + `preferred`), so 1900 is not merely unsupported — it is impossible. The event now displays no date, which is the honest state: the `before` bound appended by v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900 remains and is what is actually known. Row kept, not deleted.
Told / reported
12 August 1964
stated · doubtful
8 December 1964
estimated
Why
Old 1964-08-12 row left in place per append-only rule; this is the correction.
Reasoning
The existing field_told claim of 1964-08-12 derives from delivery claim d1, which run v1.1/l1.3b/w1 flagged doubtful and contradicted by the preserved revision dateline in node revision 10138 opening '12/8/64'; that same run's d2 claim (certain, preferred) fixes the actual delivery, and hence the telling, at 1964-12-08. Source is the lecture node as a whole (its dateline), not a passage, so this is typed estimated rather than stated.