Executive Summary — 2 Peter (English → Azerbaijani)

Why it matters

2 Peter defends three things an Azerbaijani reader will instinctively contest: that the Bible’s text is reliable (against tahrif), that Christ’s return is sovereign and unique (against nüzul Isa and Shia raj’a), and that believers can “partake of the divine nature” without committing shirk. Get these three wrong and the letter’s entire argument collapses into the very objections it was written to answer. This Language Package extends the Romans baseline to carry those arguments safely into Azerbaijani.

Key findings

• 95 enforced terms now govern Phase 2 translation: 21 inherited unchanged from the Romans package, 74 new to 2 Peter.
• 39 of those 95 terms (41%) are Critical or High risk and require human theologian review at every occurrence — 16 Critical, 23 High, 36 Medium, 20 Low.
• 17 doctrines are tracked for 2 Peter (per doctrine_risk_registry.json): 7 Critical, 6 High, 4 Medium, 0 Low — 13 require human theologian review, 4 require native speaker review, none are automated-only.
• The single highest-risk phrase in the whole curriculum, across both Romans and 2 Peter, is “partakers of the divine nature” (1:4) — the exact fault line of tawhid/shirk doctrine, with no existing Azerbaijani religious category to safely borrow from.
• The single highest legal/doctrinal-sensitivity word-choice is στρεβλόω (“twist,” 3:16) — using the natural-sounding təhrif etmək would have Peter appear to confirm the Islamic scriptural-corruption doctrine at the exact moment he refutes it.
• Genuine bridge points exist and should be used pastorally, not just fenced: Tufan/Nuh (3:6, shared with the Qur’anic Flood narrative), Fəsad (1:4, shared fasad vocabulary), and Səbir/al-Halim (3:9, shared divine-patience vocabulary, though its stated purpose differs sharply).

Risks

• Critical (7 doctrines, 16 terms): Scripture’s reliability and inspiration; divine nature/participation; Christ’s Parousia; the Day of the Lord; God’s patience; the danger of twisting Scripture; deity/sonship/lordship of Christ (inherited).
• Highest single collision: şərik/şərikçi vocabulary must never appear for “partaker” (1:4) — this is the gravest sin category in Islamic theology (shirk).
• Highest single mistranslation trap: təhrif etmək must never render “twist” (3:16) — it would self-sabotage the letter’s own defense of Scripture.
• Eschatological displacement risk: Gəliş (Christ’s coming) and Rəbbin günü / Hökm günü (Day of the Lord) must never be allowed to assimilate to nüzul Isa or Shia raj’a — both would quietly subordinate Christ to another eschatological framework.
• Legal-sensitivity risk: false-teacher and blasphemy vocabulary (peyğəmbər-compounds, küfr etmək) sits close to categories with real legal and social weight in Azerbaijan; escalation and careful contextualization are mandatory, not optional.

Opportunities

• Reuse of 21 Romans-established terms (Allah, İsa Məsih, Rəbb, İman, Lütf, Salehlik, etc.) means learners moving from Romans to 2 Peter encounter a stable, already-trusted vocabulary rather than a new register.
• Three genuine cultural bridge points (Flood/Nuh, fasad, səbir/patience) offer low-risk entry points for teaching material to build trust before addressing the Critical-tier confrontations.
• The letter’s own internal logic (eyewitness testimony plus prophetic Scripture, mutually confirming) gives translators a built-in, textually faithful way to address tahrif head-on rather than avoiding it.

Recommended actions

1. Route all 16 Critical-risk terms and 7 Critical doctrines to mandatory human theologian review before any Phase 2 segment ships — no exceptions, per escalation rules in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
2. Enforce the forbidden-substitution list (təhrif etmək, şərik/şərikçi, küfr etmək, təqva, təriqət, bidət, nüzul, raj’a, unscoped Qiyamət günü) at automated validation before any segment is accepted.
3. Attach mandatory first-use footnotes to the five highest-stakes terms per lesson: İlahi təbiət/İştirakçı, Gəliş, Rəbbin günü/Hökm günü, Səbir, and the twist_distort rendering.
4. Confirm the exact IBT short-form citation for “2 Peter” and the YouVersion numeric version ID before Phase 2 hyperlink generation at scale (currently placeholders per 05_translation_landscape.md).
5. Brief native-speaker reviewers specifically on the virtue-chain (1:5-11) and moral-corruption (2:2-19) passages, where risk is real but Medium-tier, before escalating unnecessarily to theologian-level review.

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Full detail: analysis/07_semantic_analysis.md, analysis/08_core_glossary.md, analysis/11_doctrine_analysis.md, analysis/04_comparative_theology.md, analysis/06_linguistic_gap_analysis.md, analysis/05_translation_landscape.md, assets/translation_memory.json, assets/bible_term_registry.json, assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json.