Linguistic Gap Analysis — 1 Corinthians | English → Bavarian

Purpose and Method

This analysis identifies, for the full text of 1 Corinthians (chapters 1–16, anchored theologically in the core passage 15:1-11), where Bavarian (Boarisch) vocabulary is structurally absent (a true register gap — no dialect term exists at any register) versus where Bavarian vocabulary exists but is already occupied by a strong competing meaning from Bavarian Catholic folk-devotional culture, secular civic life, or standard-German homonym collision (a crowded semantic neighborhood requiring deliberate “fencing” — contextual disambiguation strategy — rather than a new coinage).

This document extends, and does not contradict, the baseline Romans translation_memory.json / bible_term_registry.json and the curriculum-specific analysis/08_core_glossary.md and assets/bible_term_registry.json already produced for 1 Corinthians. All term renderings cited below are reused exactly as already recorded; this analysis adds the diagnostic layer — why each gap or collision exists, and what strategy follows from that diagnosis — rather than proposing new renderings.

Two failure modes distinguished throughout:

• Missing vocabulary (register gap): no Bavarian dialect term exists at any register for the concept; the only available strategy is to borrow the standard-German abstraction (with regular phonological adaptation) and let surrounding warm dialect prose carry accessibility, per the baseline’s established register-gap pattern (cf. Gerechtigkeit, Rechtfertigung).
• Crowded semantic neighborhood: a native or borrowed Bavarian term exists and is fluent, but its dominant everyday or devotional sense actively competes with, and risks displacing, the Pauline sense. The strategy here is not coinage but fencing: mandatory contextual glossing, compound-phrase enforcement, or explicit teaching-material disambiguation.

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Section 1 — Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix

Doctrine	Available Bavarian Terms	Weaknesses / Gaps	Recommended Strategy
The Resurrection of Christ and Believers	Aufersteh'ng (baseline, reused); Aufersteh'ng vo de Toten; Erstlingsfruacht; da letzte Adam; verweslich/unverweslich; hat si zoagt (verb, not noun, for ὤφθη)	No structural gap in the core term itself (borrowed, stable, Easter-reinforced), but this curriculum elevates it from Medium (Romans) to Critical because the whole book’s argument (15:12-19) hinges on denying-resurrection-collapses-the-gospel logic not present in Romans at this intensity. Secondary risk: Erscheinung (apparition noun) would pull toward Marian-apparition/ghost-sighting folk register.	Retain Aufersteh'ng exactly; enforce verb phrasing hat si zoagt/is erschiena over any noun form for resurrection appearances; treat every occurrence in ch.15 as Critical-tier regardless of the baseline’s original Medium default.
Christian Unity versus Factionalism	Spaltung (schism); Streit (strife); Leib vom Christus; Gliada (members/limbs)	Spaltung carries unusually loaded historical resonance in Bavaria specifically (the region sits on the historic Reformation-era Catholic/Protestant confessional boundary); risk of the term being heard as referencing that confessional rupture rather than Paul’s personality-driven intra-congregational rivalry.	Fence with context: always pair Spaltung with concrete markers of the Corinthian factions (named leaders — Paulus, Apollos, Kephas) so the reference stays intra-congregational, not confessional-historical.
The Cross as Wisdom and Power	Kreuz; Weisheit; Torheit; Geheimnis; Kraft vo Gott (baseline, reused)	Kreuz is a crowded neighborhood: Bavarian Catholic visual culture (Herrgottswinkel, Wegkreuz shrines) saturates the word with devotional-object familiarity, risking “the message of the cross” (1:18) being heard as “the familiar crucifix” rather than the specific atonement content.	Fence by consistently pairing Kreuz with the genitive construction “s’Wort vom Kreiz” and explicit death/substitution language in the same clause, never letting the bare noun stand alone as the doctrinal referent.
Church Discipline and Holiness	Unzucht; an'n Satan ausliefern; Passah-Lamm; Sauadoag; Tempel; erkaaft; fleischlich	an'n Satan ausliefern risks colliding with the formal Catholic canonical-excommunication term Bann, importing institutional overtones absent from Paul’s restorative intent (5:5). Tempel is a deliberate register choice to avoid the Kirch-building collision (see Section 2). Passah-Lamm is a pure register gap (no lived Passover observance in Bavarian Catholic culture; only Ostern).	Retain the paraphrase strategy for Passah-Lamm with mandatory OT-typology teaching note; retain Tempel (not Kirch) for the indwelling-presence metaphor; flag an'n Satan ausliefern for theologian review with an explicit restorative-not-punitive gloss.
Marriage and Singleness	Ehe; Jungfrau; Freiheit / Sklaverei; beruafa/Beruafung (baseline, reused)	Jungfrau is a crowded neighborhood: default association with Jungfrau Maria given Bavaria’s intense Marian devotional culture (Altötting). Beruafung collides with the everyday career-vocation sense (as already flagged in the baseline for Romans, intensified here by 7:17-24’s repeated “state in which you were called” argument).	Fence Jungfrau with explicit unmarried-person context every occurrence in ch.7; fence Beruafung/beruafa in ch.7 by adding “vor Gott” or equivalent qualifying phrase where the salvation/life-circumstance sense (not career) is intended.
Christian Liberty and Idol Meat	Götzenopferfleisch; Götzenbuidl; Götzendienst; Wissn; Gwissn; Anstoß; Recht; Vorbild; Dämon; Herrn Tisch	Highest-stakes collision cluster in the book. Götzenbuidl/Götzendienst risk being heard, even by implication, as commentary on Catholic veneration of saints’ statues/images — a live Reformation-era iconoclasm flashpoint, not a neutral register gap. Götzenopferfleisch is a pure register gap (no lived pagan-temple-meat marketplace). Vorbild normally carries a positive connotation, inverting Paul’s cautionary sense at 10:1-13. Dämon risks a folkloric (Perchten/Krampus) rather than biblical register.	Mandatory theologian review on every Götzenbuidl/Götzendienst occurrence; require accompanying teaching material (not the translation itself) to state explicitly that Scripture’s condemnation targets pagan idol-worship, not Catholic sacred art, avoiding any implied adjudication of that separate controversy. Fence Vorbild in 10:1-13 with explicit “Warnung” framing.
The Lord’s Supper	s'Herrnmahl; Gedächtnis; Leib / Bluat; unwiadig; si selber prüf'n; Haupt; Kopfbedeckung; Bund (baseline, reused, elevated risk)	The single highest-stakes term in the entire curriculum: unlike register-gap terms, s'Herrnmahl collides with a fully developed competing sacramental tradition — the Catholic Mass, transubstantiation, and Real Presence. This is categorically different from every other entry in this matrix (competing live doctrine, not absent vocabulary or folk-devotional coloring).	Mandatory theologian review for every occurrence of s'Herrnmahl, Leib / Bluat, Bund (11:25), and Gedächtnis as a cluster. Recommend a dedicated translator’s note at first occurrence distinguishing shared ground (a real, Christ-instituted meal of remembrance and participation) from the specific point of active denominational difference, without adjudicating that debate inside the translation itself.
Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ	Gnodngob'n (baseline, reused); in Zungen redn; Auslegung vo de Zungenred; da natürliche Mensch; geistlich; in oam Geist tauft; Leib vom Christus; Gliada	in Zungen redn (tongues) is a pure register gap — no lived Bavarian Catholic liturgical analogue to glossolalia. geistlich is a severe lexical collision: standard German/Bavarian der Geistliche is the ordinary word for a priest/clergyman, risking every believer’s Spirit-indwelling being misheard as a clerical-office category.	Never use the bare noun Zunge for the gift; always the full compound phrase. Require a disambiguating gloss (“vom Heiling Geist erfüllt”) at first occurrence of geistlich in each new teaching unit (chs. 2, 3, 14, 15), not merely once per document.
Love as the Greater Way	Liab	The most consequential register problem in the curriculum, though not a vocabulary gap: everyday Bavarian Liab covers romantic, familial, and general affectionate senses without distinction — precisely the conflation ἀγάπη is written to resist. No alternative native or borrowed term exists that would avoid this without sounding clinically foreign.	Do not attempt a coinage or a borrowed Greek/Latin substitute (would read as an academic import with zero folk resonance, worse than the conflation risk). Instead, lean maximally on chapter 13’s own extensive behavioral definition (patient, kind, not envious…) to let context, not the word itself, carry the doctrinal precision — the same “let the sentence carry the weight” principle the baseline applies to borrowed abstractions.
Order in Worship	Ordnung; Erbauung; auslegn; de Frauen soll'n schweign; Haupt; Kopfbedeckung	Kopfbedeckung is unusual among register-gap risks in that it has a genuine living cultural anchor (pre-Vatican-II Bavarian headscarf/veil custom), reducing register-gap risk but raising a distinct command-vs-culturally-bound-application ambiguity that the translation cannot resolve on its own. de Frauen soll'n schweign is exegetically contested; literalism is the safer translation-layer choice.	Render literally without softening or expanding; explicitly defer interpretive resolution of scope/application to Phase 3 teaching material rather than embedding an interpretive stance in the translation itself.

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Section 2 — Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods

2A. Missing Vocabulary (True Register Gaps — No Bavarian Term Exists at Any Register)

These concepts have no dialect coinage because the underlying practice or category has no lived Bavarian analogue; the only viable strategy is borrowing the standard-German abstraction (or a compound built from it) and relying on surrounding warm prose and teaching material for accessibility — the same pattern the baseline documents for Gerechtigkeit/Rechtfertigung.

Term	Why the gap exists	Strategy
tongues / interpretation of tongues	No historic Bavarian Catholic liturgical tradition of glossolalia	Compound phrase only, never bare noun; explanatory teaching note mandatory
food sacrificed to idols	No live pagan-temple-meat marketplace in Bavarian experience	Borrowed compound Götzenopferfleisch; transfer the principle (liberty limited by love), not the ancient practice, as the pedagogical payload
Christ our Passover	No lived Passover observance in Bavarian Catholic practice (only Ostern, without an explicit Exodus-lamb reference point)	Explicit OT Passover-lamb typology must be supplied by teaching material; the translation alone cannot carry this
mystery (μυστήριον, revealed-plan sense)	Bavarian dialect has no native distinction between “hidden secret” and “now-revealed divine plan”	Geheimnis, anchored every occurrence to explicit “now revealed” language in the same clause
received/delivered (creedal tradition formula)	No dialect-level technical vocabulary for closed apostolic eyewitness transmission as distinct from open-ended church Tradition	Borrowed pair aufgnomma / weidergeb'n; teaching material must clarify this is Paul’s fixed eyewitness testimony, not an invitation to ongoing doctrinal development
spiritual body / imperishable body (15:35-54)	No Bavarian folk category for a transformed-yet-continuous resurrection body distinct from either ghost, reincarnation, or resuscitation	Borrowed verweslich/unverweslich, geistlich (fenced per 2B below); requires explicit teaching contrast with both resuscitation and reincarnation
baptized in one Spirit (12:13)	No baseline entry; concept itself (Spirit-baptism uniting diverse believers into one body) has no folk-devotional precedent distinct from water baptism	Transparent compound in oam Geist tauft, low risk once paired explicitly with Heiliger Geist

2B. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods (Term Exists but Is Occupied — Requires Fencing)

These are the higher-stakes cases: a fluent Bavarian word or borrowing exists, but its dominant sense actively competes with the Pauline meaning.

Term	Occupying meaning	Fencing strategy
Kirch (church, ekklēsia)	Physical parish building + Kirchweih/Kirwa festival culture (documented in baseline)	Use Tempel for the indwelling-presence metaphor (chs. 3, 6) specifically to avoid this collision; reserve Kirch for the gathered-assembly sense with explicit “d’Gmoaschaft vo de Gläubign” support language where corporate identity (not building) is meant
Heiling (saints)	Canonized/venerated patron saints, Namenstag culture	Gloss as alle Gläubign at every corporate occurrence (6:1-2; 16:1,15), per baseline instruction
Jungfrau (virgin)	Jungfrau Maria / Marian devotion (Altötting)	Explicit unmarried-person context required at every occurrence in ch. 7
Götzenbuidl / Götzendienst (idol/idolatry)	Catholic veneration of saints’ statues and images (Reformation-era iconoclasm controversy)	Mandatory theologian review; teaching material must explicitly scope the condemnation to pagan worship, never implying commentary on Catholic sacred art
Kreuz (cross)	Herrgottswinkel/Wegkreuz devotional-object familiarity	Always pair with explicit atonement/death language; never let the bare noun stand as the doctrinal referent
geistlich (spiritual)	der Geistliche = priest/clergyman	Disambiguating gloss (“vom Heiling Geist erfüllt”) required at first occurrence per teaching unit
Beruafung/beruafa (calling)	Everyday career/vocation sense (already flagged in baseline; intensified by 7:17-24’s repeated life-circumstance argument)	Add explicit qualifying phrase distinguishing salvation-calling from life-circumstance-calling in ch. 7
Sünd (sin)	Colloquial “what a shame/waste” (baseline-documented)	Reinforce culpable-transgression sense explicitly at 15:3,17,56 given the gospel-creed’s centrality
Dämon (demon)	Folk-legend register (Perchten, Krampus)	Native-speaker review to ensure biblical spiritual-warfare register, not folklore, lands at 10:20-21
Erscheinung (would-be noun rendering of “appeared”)	Marian apparition / ghost-sighting register	Forbidden as a rendering choice; use verb phrasing (hat si zoagt) instead — this is a pre-emptive fence achieved by avoiding the crowded noun form entirely
an’n Satan ausliefern / Bann (deliver to Satan)	Formal Catholic canonical excommunication vocabulary	Explicit restorative-purpose gloss required (5:5’s ultimate goal is the offender’s salvation)
Vorbild (type/example)	Positive-connotation “role model” in everyday Bavarian	Explicit cautionary/warning framing required at 10:1-13
Idol (bare loanword, rejected)	Modern German/Bavarian pop-culture sense (“Teenie-Idol,” celebrity idol)	Confirms the registry’s decision to use Götzenbuidl rather than a bare borrowed “Idol” — the bare loanword would introduce an entirely unrelated modern-celebrity collision on top of the sacred-art collision
Mysterium (rejected alternative to Geheimnis)	Catholic liturgical register (“Mysterium des Glaubens”)	Confirms registry’s choice of Geheimnis over Mysterium for this reason
Erneinung / Fürbitt-adjacent readings of “remembrance” (Gedächtnis)	Mass re-presentation-of-sacrifice theology	Fence by avoiding both bare mental-recall minimalism and Mass-adjacent maximalism in surrounding phrasing

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Section 3 — Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions

Term	Decision	Rationale
Maranatha	Transliterate (retain Aramaic form, gloss meaning at first occurrence)	Follows the baseline’s established Aramaic-retention pattern (Abba); a liturgical acclamation, not a concept requiring dialect equivalence
Christus (vs. Messias)	Retain established devotional proper name; do not paraphrase or substitute	1 Corinthians uses Χριστός as a virtual proper name ~60+ times, unlike Romans’ more deliberately titular usage; reserve Messias strictly for explicit OT-fulfillment argument (15:3-4 background), per registry
Christ our Passover	Paraphrase, not transliterate (Passah-Lamm, not a transliterated “Pascha”)	A transliterated “Pascha” would default to generic Easter (Ostern) without the sacrificial-lamb content; paraphrase preserves the typological content that transliteration would lose
Idol / idolatry	Paraphrase via native compound (Götzenbuidl, Götzendienst), reject bare loanword Idol	Bare Idol collides with the modern celebrity-idol sense; the native compound, while itself carrying the saints’-image collision risk, is still the lesser of two competing risks and is at least anchored to explicitly religious vocabulary
Mystery	Paraphrase (Geheimnis), reject transliteration/loan Mysterium	Mysterium pulls toward Catholic sacramental-liturgical register (“Mysterium des Glaubens”); Geheimnis is more neutral but requires the “now revealed” anchor
Tongues	Paraphrase as fixed compound phrase, never a bare transliteration of γλῶσσαι or a bare noun Zunge	No transliteration option exists that would avoid the ordinary body-part/language collision; only a compound verb-phrase construction is safe
Lord’s Supper	Paraphrase via compound (s'Herrnmahl), reject transliteration of κυριακὸν δεῖπνον or adoption of Catholic liturgical vocabulary (Eucharistie, Messe)	Adopting Catholic liturgical vocabulary directly would fully collapse the distinction into the Mass; the Herr-based compound retains lordship/ownership content while remaining terminologically distinct from Messe/Eucharistie
Abba (baseline, reused)	Transliterate (already established)	Reused without change; precedent for treating Aramaic terms of intimacy as retained transliterations
Anathema	Paraphrase (verflucht), reject the formal loan Anathema/Bann	A bare transliteration or the Catholic canonical term Bann would over-formalize Paul’s brief closing warning (16:22) into an institutional-procedural register it does not carry in context
Untimely born (ἔκτρωμα)	Paraphrase, softened (descriptive clause), reject literal Fehlgeburt	Literal translation triggers the contemporary miscarriage/abortion register; a softened descriptive paraphrase preserves Paul’s ancient self-abasement force without that anachronistic collision
Holy kiss	Paraphrase with cultural gloss (hoaliga Kuss + explanatory teaching note)	The greeting custom itself needs cultural-historical explanation regardless of the term chosen; low doctrinal risk either way

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Section 4 — Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities

Ranked by combined weight of (a) doctrinal centrality to this curriculum, (b) strength of the competing Bavarian Catholic devotional or cultural reading, and (c) frequency/load-bearing density across the book.

1. Lord’s Supper / body / blood / covenant (11:23-29) — Not a register gap but a live, fully developed competing sacramental tradition (the Mass, transubstantiation, Real Presence). No comparable entry exists elsewhere in either this book or the Romans baseline. Mandatory theologian review, every occurrence, treated as a single cluster.
2. Love — ἀγάπη → Liab (ch. 13) — The book’s single most theologically weighted term rendered by the single most semantically overloaded everyday word in the target language; no alternative rendering avoids the conflation, so the entire burden falls on surrounding context.
3. Idol / idolatry / food sacrificed to idols (chs. 8, 10) — Risk of being heard as commentary on a live, unrelated, historically fraught controversy (Catholic sacred-image veneration) rather than the text’s actual target (pagan temple worship).
4. Spiritual person / geistlich (chs. 2–3, 12, 14–15) — Direct lexical collision with the everyday clergy/priest term der Geistliche; recurs across nearly every doctrinal section of the book, compounding the risk.
5. Tongues / interpretation of tongues (chs. 12, 14) — Pure register gap with zero lived Bavarian Catholic liturgical analogue; extensive, sustained treatment across two full chapters raises the stakes of sustained mishandling.
6. Resurrection of the dead (ch. 15, the core passage’s doctrinal argument) — Elevated to Critical specifically for this curriculum; the book’s argumentative structure (15:12-19) means any softening collapses the entire gospel claim, not merely one doctrine among several.
7. Saints — Heiling (1:2; 6:1-2; 16:1,15) — Strong default toward canonized/patron-saint reading via Namenstag culture, recurring at both the letter’s opening address and its closing instructions, framing the whole document.
8. Virgin — Jungfrau (ch. 7) — Marian-devotional default (Altötting) risks color the entirety of Paul’s extended singleness counsel in ch. 7 if unfenced.
9. Church — Kirch (chs. 1, 3, 11, 12, 14–16) — Building/Kirchweih-festival default recurs across the whole book’s ecclesiological argument; distinguishing it correctly from Tempel at every occurrence is a sustained, not one-time, task.
10. Cross — Kreuz (1:18-25; 2:1-5) — Devotional-object familiarity (Herrgottswinkel, Wegkreuz) risks flattening “the word of the cross” into a reference to a decorative/familiar object at the book’s foundational rhetorical turn.
11. Head — Haupt (11:3) — Contemporary interpretive/gender-order controversy intersects directly with the translation choice; theologically live debate, not merely a cultural-collision risk.
12. Division/schism — Spaltung (1:10-17; 3:3-4) — Bavaria’s own confessional-historical resonance risks recoloring intra-congregational rivalry as an echo of the Reformation-era Catholic/Protestant rupture.
13. Appeared — ὤφθη (15:5-8) — Noun-form rendering (Erscheinung) would default to Marian-apparition or ghost-sighting register at the exact point the text is asserting a real, bodily, historical encounter; mitigated only by strict verb-phrasing enforcement.
14. Received/delivered tradition formula (15:1,3) — Catholic Bavaria’s own strong doctrine of sacred Tradition gives this unusual double-edged resonance: helpful for “fixed content,” risky if generalized beyond Paul’s specific closed apostolic testimony.
15. Deliver to Satan / anathema (5:5; 16:22) — Formal Catholic canonical-excommunication vocabulary (Bann) risks importing institutional-procedural weight disproportionate to Paul’s restorative (5:5) or brief closing-warning (16:22) purposes respectively.

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Section 5 — Full-Book Chapter Coverage Log

Per the full-coverage mandate, every chapter of 1 Corinthians is logged below. Chapters contributing no new load-bearing vocabulary beyond what is already captured in Sections 1–4 and in analysis/08_core_glossary.md are explicitly marked “reviewed, no new terms” rather than omitted.

Ch.	Content Summary	Linguistic Gap Analysis Status
1	Factionalism named; cross as wisdom/foolishness introduced; calling	Covered — Spaltung, Streit, Kreuz, Weisheit, Torheit, beruafa (see Sections 1, 2, 4)
2	Wisdom of the Spirit vs. the world; mystery revealed; natural vs. spiritual person	Covered — Geheimnis, da natürliche Mensch, geistlich (see Sections 1, 2B, 4)
3	Continued factionalism; believers as God’s temple; stewardship imagery	Covered — Tempel (fenced against Kirch), fleischlich; Verwalter (steward) reviewed, low risk, no additional gap beyond registry entry
4	Apostolic stewardship; Paul’s pastoral fatherhood	Covered — Voda (context-sensitive spiritual vs. divine fatherhood, per registry); Verwalter
5	Church discipline; sexual immorality case; Christ our Passover; leaven	Covered — Unzucht, an'n Satan ausliefern, Passah-Lamm, Sauadoag (Sections 1, 2A, 3, 4)
6	Lawsuits among believers; body as temple of the Spirit; bought with a price	Covered — Tempel, erkaaft (Section 1); lawsuit/civil-court vocabulary reviewed — standard secular-legal terms, low risk, no fencing required
7	Marriage, singleness, calling in one’s state of life	Covered — Ehe, Jungfrau, Freiheit/Sklaverei, Beruafung/beruafa fencing (Sections 1, 2B, 4)
8	Food sacrificed to idols; knowledge vs. love; conscience; stumbling block	Covered — Götzenopferfleisch, Wissn, Gwissn, Anstoß (Sections 1, 2A/2B)
9	Apostolic rights surrendered; athletic-race/crown imagery	Covered for Recht (Section 1); athletic imagery (race, crown, self-discipline) reviewed — standard, transparent vocabulary (Wettlauf, Kron), low risk, no new fencing required beyond noting the imagery is illustrative, not introducing new doctrine
10	OT Israel as warning type; idolatry; Lord’s table vs. demons’ table; liberty conclusion	Covered — Vorbild, Götzendienst, Dämon, Herrn Tisch (Sections 1, 2B, 4)
11	Head covering in worship; Lord’s Supper institution	Covered — Haupt, Kopfbedeckung, s'Herrnmahl, Leib/Bluat, Bund, Gedächtnis, unwiadig (Sections 1, 2, 4) — highest-density chapter for Critical-tier terms
12	Spiritual gifts; one Spirit baptism; body of Christ metaphor	Covered — Gnodngob'n, in oam Geist tauft, Leib vom Christus, Gliada (Sections 1, 2A)
13	Love as the greater way	Covered — Liab, Glaam/Hoffnung/Liab triad (Sections 1, 2, 4)
14	Prophecy vs. tongues; order in worship; women’s silence instruction	Covered — in Zungen redn, Auslegung vo de Zungenred, Ordnung, Erbauung, auslegn, de Frauen soll'n schweign (Sections 1, 2A, 4)
15	Core passage: resurrection creed (15:1-11); full resurrection argument	Covered — full Section 1 doctrine row; aufgnomma/weidergeb'n, hat si zoagt, eingschlafn, wia oaner der ned amoi richtig auf d'Welt kemma is, Erstlingsfruacht, da letzte Adam, verweslich/unverweslich, Tod/Sieg/Stachel (Sections 1, 2A, 4) — theological anchor of the entire curriculum
16	Collection; Maranatha; anathema; holy kiss; closing greetings	Covered — Kollekte, Marana tha, verflucht, hoaliga Kuss (Sections 3, 4)

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Summary

This analysis confirms the diagnosis already emerging from the baseline Romans package and deepens it for 1 Corinthians: this book’s highest-stakes translation risks are disproportionately crowded-neighborhood collisions with live Bavarian Catholic devotional practice (saints’ images, Marian devotion, the Mass, priesthood vocabulary) rather than pure register gaps. Where Romans’s central finding was mostly a register gap problem (abstract Reformation-controversy vocabulary borrowed wholesale because no dialect tradition existed to draw on), 1 Corinthians adds a second, sharper problem: terms that are perfectly fluent in Bavarian but already fully occupied by a rival, doctrinally load-bearing devotional or institutional meaning. The Lord’s Supper cluster is the starkest instance of this second category anywhere in either curriculum and should receive the single highest concentration of theologian review resources in Phase 2.

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This analysis extends, and does not contradict, the baseline Romans translation_memory.json / bible_term_registry.json, and is consistent with the term renderings already recorded in analysis/08_core_glossary.md and the curriculum-specific assets/bible_term_registry.json. No renderings are altered here; this document supplies the diagnostic rationale supporting those renderings and the review-routing priorities that follow from it.