1
The Armenian tradition preserves old and valuable material and in some places stands close to archaic features also found in the Elephantine papyrus.
2
The Arabic tradition preserves one of the fullest connected later narratives, especially useful where Syriac narrative sections are broken.
3
Neither stream is allowed to erase the older Aramaic forms; they function as completion and comparison witnesses.
4
Where Armenian, Arabic, and Syriac agree against a damaged place, the agreement is given increased weight, but a later harmonized reading is not automatically preferred merely because it is smooth.