Linguistic Gap Analysis
Linguistic Gap Analysis — Genesis
Purpose and Scope
This document performs the PRD Phase 1 Step 8 linguistic gap analysis for the Genesis curriculum into Bengali. It surveys the entire book (Genesis 1–50), with Genesis 1:1–2:3 as the theological anchor, and answers four questions for every load-bearing doctrine term:
- What Bengali vocabulary is actually available, and what are its weaknesses?
- Where is there a genuine vocabulary gap (no adequate native term exists) versus a crowded semantic neighborhood (too many competing terms, each carrying unwanted religious baggage, requiring deliberate “fencing”)?
- Where should the pipeline transliterate rather than translate/paraphrase, and why?
- Which ambiguities carry the highest risk for this specific curriculum, ranked, with grounded reasons?
This analysis extends, and must not contradict, the baseline Romans translation_memory.json / bible_term_registry.json, and is consistent with the term decisions already recorded in analysis/08_core_glossary.md and the Genesis additions to assets/bible_term_registry.json. Where this document identifies a risk not yet captured in those files, it flags it forward for the doctrine risk registry (Step 9).
Bengal’s specific religious landscape drives most of the risk in this analysis: West Bengal is Hindu-majority with strong Shakta (Durga/Kali) and Vaishnava bhakti traditions, plus widespread rural folk-Hindu practice (village deities, serpent cults, stone markers); Bangladesh is Muslim-majority with a strong Perso-Arabic Islamic theological vocabulary layer. Genesis, more than Romans, is a book of origins, ritual, and covenant sign-acts — precisely the terrain where Hindu cosmogony/ritual and Islamic prophetic-genealogy vocabulary both compete hardest with the intended biblical meaning.
1. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix
| Doctrine | Key Terms (Bengali) | Available Candidates & Weaknesses | Recommended Strategy |
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| Creation Ex Nihilo | সৃষ্টি করা (bara), আদিতে (bereshit), বিশ্রাম নিলেন (shabat), অতি উত্তম (tov me’od) | সৃষ্টি is also the standard Hindu Puranic/Vedantic term for cosmic emanation from Brahman or for the recurring সৃষ্টি-স্থিতি-প্রলয় (creation-preservation-dissolution) cycle using pre-existent prakriti; আদি is used for the start of a yuga within an eternally repeating age-system; বিশ্রাম risks a “God withdrawing before the next cycle” (pralaya) reading. No alternative Bengali root avoids religious loading entirely. | Retain established terms (no viable alternative exists) but mandate a translator note at every occurrence in the core passage clarifying: (a) linear, non-repeating time; (b) creation from nothing, not from pre-existent divine substance; (c) a bounded, once-for-all completed act, not an ongoing emanation or cycle. |
| The Image of God | ঈশ্বরের প্রতিমূর্তি (tselem), সাদৃশ্য (demut) | প্রতিমূর্তি shares its root with মূর্তি, the ordinary word for a crafted deity-image/idol (দেবমূর্তি, মূর্তিপূজা), central to everyday Hindu devotional vocabulary in Bengal. সাদৃশ্য risks an Advaita “Atman is Brahman” non-dual-essence misreading if not paired carefully with প্রতিমূর্তি’s creaturely-representation sense. | Retain established Bengali Bible rendering (breaking from it would itself create inconsistency risk across denominational literature); mandate a translator note at every occurrence (1:26-27; 5:1,3; 9:6) making the directionality explicit: God→humanity (the image-bearer reflects God) is the theological opposite of human→god (the idol reflects a human-made image), not a variation of the same phenomenon. |
| The Fall and the Origin of Sin | সাপ (nachash), অভিশপ্ত (arur), তুমি নিশ্চয়ই মরবে (mot tamut), পাপ (chatta’t) | সাপ is doctrinally safe as a common noun, but Bengal is home to significant folk-Hindu serpent devotion — Manasa Devi, the regional serpent goddess honored especially in rural Bengal (Manasa-mangal literature, Jhapan festivals) — which risks readers unconsciously importing serpent-as-numinous-power associations onto Genesis 3’s tempter. অভিশপ্ত risks flattening into impersonal কর্মফল (karma) if not paired with a personal, judicial framing. মরবে alone under-translates the Hebrew’s emphatic doubled verb. | Use established terms; add a first-occurrence translator note at Genesis 3 distinguishing the serpent as a judged creature under God’s sovereignty, not a numinous or protective spirit-being as in regional serpent-devotion traditions. Preserve the emphatic force with নিশ্চয়ই. Frame অভিশপ্ত explicitly as a personal divine pronouncement, not self-operating cosmic law. |
| The Abrahamic Covenant and Promise | নিয়ম (berit), আশীর্বাদ (berakhah), বংশ (zera), জাতি/মহাজাতি (goy), ত্বকচ্ছেদ (circumcision) | আশীর্বাদ is embedded in Bengali Hindu ritual life (প্রণাম করে আশীর্বাদ নেওয়া — receiving blessing via touch from elders, gurus, or deities), risking a semi-transferable-ritual-substance misreading. জাতি is the standard word for both “nation” and Hindu social “caste,” risking the universal Gentile-blessing promise being misheard through a caste lens. ত্বকচ্ছেদ must avoid সুন্নত/খৎনা, the Islamic-idiom terms tied to the Sunnah of Muhammad. | Reuse established renderings with mandatory notes: আশীর্বাদ as God’s own sovereign, personal favor (never a transferable ritual substance); জাতি consistently paired with বংশ/গোষ্ঠী in Abrahamic-promise contexts to keep the “nation” sense unambiguous; ত্বকচ্ছেদ as the fixed, religiously neutral descriptive term for the Abrahamic sign, distinct from the Islamic rite. |
| Providence and the Sovereignty of God | ঈশ্বরের পরিচালনা (providence, reused), পরীক্ষা করলেন (nissah), সদাপ্রভু জোগাবেন, ভালো/মঙ্গল (tovah) | ভাগ্য/নিয়তি (fate/destiny) already forbidden in the baseline; the acute Genesis-specific risk is মঙ্গল, which is heavily associated with Bengali Hindu devotional Mangal-Kavya literature (poems praising deities such as Manasa and Chandi for granting auspicious welfare) and with astrological/ritual auspiciousness-seeking generally. | Use ভালো, not মঙ্গল, for God’s providential good purpose (Genesis 50:20), matching Romans 8:28 vocabulary across curricula. পরীক্ষা করলেন requires a note distinguishing testing-that-proves-faith from tempting-to-sin. |
| Sin’s Consequences and Common Grace | অভিশপ্ত, অনুগ্রহ (reused), হোমবলি (olah), নৈবেদ্য (minchah), সন্তোষজনক সুগন্ধ | হোম is the standard Sanskrit/Hindu term for a Vedic fire-ritual (হোম যজ্ঞ) that invokes deities or generates ritual merit; নৈবেদ্য is the standard Bengali Hindu term for a food-offering placed before an idol (puja). Both established Bible renderings sit directly inside Hindu ritual-technology vocabulary. | Retain established terms (no non-loaded alternative exists) but mandate translator notes at every occurrence distinguishing biblical sacrifice — costly worship offered to, and accepted by, the one true personal God, ultimately pointing to substitutionary atonement — from ritual-merit-generating technology directed at multiple deities. |
| Covenant Faithfulness across Generations | নিয়ম, চিরস্থায়ী নিয়ম, বিশ্বস্ত অনুগ্রহ (chesed), স্তম্ভ (matsevah), বৈথেল | No single Bengali word captures chesed’s fusion of covenant loyalty and active love; বিশ্বস্ত অনুগ্রহ is a constructed compound, not an existing lexical unit, and will read as slightly unusual to native speakers on first encounter. স্তম্ভ risks confusion with rural Bengali folk-Hindu practice of venerating standing stones or trees as the seat of a local গ্রামদেবতা (village deity). | Retain the compound chesed rendering with a first-occurrence teaching note explaining why no single word suffices. Mandate a note at every matsevah occurrence (28:18; 35:14) clarifying it is a memorial marker of a past divine encounter, not itself an object of ongoing worship. |
| Joseph and God’s Providence in Suffering | স্বপ্ন (chalom), বিক্রি করলেন (makhar), জীবন রক্ষার জন্য, মন্দ চিন্তা করেছিলে, ঈশ্বর তা ভালোর জন্য ব্যবহার করলেন | স্বপ্ন-as-revelation collides with widespread Bengali folk practice of treating dreams as ancestral-spirit visitations or omens requiring folk (often astrological) interpretation, a practice cutting across both Hindu and Muslim popular religion in the region. | Mandate a note at first occurrence (Genesis 37) framing dreams in Joseph’s narrative as sovereign, purposeful revelation from the one true personal God, interpreted rightly only by God-given insight (41:16), not a generic omen open to any folk-interpretive method. |
2. Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods
Genesis presents a different linguistic-gap profile than Romans: Romans is dense with abstract soteriological vocabulary (mostly already resolved in the baseline); Genesis is dense with concrete ritual, cosmogonic, and kinship vocabulary — exactly where Bengali’s Hindu-devotional and Islamic-idiom lexicons are richest and most likely to intrude uninvited.
2.1 Genuine Vocabulary Gaps (no adequate native term exists)
These are cases where Bengali simply does not possess a word or phrase that maps cleanly onto the Hebrew concept; a compound, paraphrase, or explanatory apparatus is unavoidable.
| Concept | Gap | Resolution |
|---|---|---|
| chesed (חֶסֶד) | No single Bengali word combines covenant loyalty with active love; existing options split the concept (বিশ্বস্ততা = loyalty only; অনুগ্রহ/স্নেহ = love/favor only) | Constructed compound বিশ্বস্ত অনুগ্রহ, anchored to baseline অনুগ্রহ, with a first-occurrence note explaining the fusion the Hebrew intends |
| nephesh chayah (נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה) | Bengali’s available nouns split into either প্রাণ (life-force, colored by Yogic prana) or আত্মা (soul, colored by a detachable-eternal-self assumption); neither captures “a whole embodied, animated, mortal being” | জীবন্ত প্রাণী (living creature/being) as a descriptive compound, avoiding both প্রাণ and আত্মা as the head noun |
| ezer kenegdo (עֵזֶר כְּנֶגְדּוֹ) | সহকারী (“helper/assistant”) alone default-reads as functionally subordinate in Bengali register; no existing word conveys “strong, equal-dignity counterpart” | তার উপযুক্ত সহকারী with a mandatory teaching note citing ezer’s frequent use elsewhere in Scripture of God helping his people, to block a subordination reading |
| ish / ishah wordplay (אִישׁ / אִשָּׁה) | The Hebrew pun (ishah derived from ish) has no Bengali phonetic parallel (পুরুষ / নারী share no root) | Translate plainly; carry the wordplay’s theological point (shared essential nature) via a footnote rather than attempting an artificial Bengali pun |
| arum / arom wordplay (עָרוּם / עָרוֹם) | Same problem: ধূর্ত (“crafty”) and উলঙ্গ (“naked”) share no root in Bengali | Footnote the Hebrew pun; ensure the narrative point (deception leads to exposure) is clear in context without relying on wordplay |
| Shiloh (שִׁילֹה, Gen 49:10) | A genuine philological crux even in Hebrew scholarship; no Bengali word can resolve what the Hebrew itself does not resolve | Transliterate (শীলো), do not silently resolve; mandatory interpretive note pointing to the traditional messianic reading |
| toledot formula (תּוֹלְדֹת) | বংশতালিকা (“genealogical record”) captures the genealogical sense but loses some of the narrative-transition force (“this is the account of…”) the Hebrew formula carries at structural seams | Retain বংশতালিকা for consistency; supplement with a structural teaching note at each occurrence (2:4; 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10,27; 25:12,19; 36:1,9; 37:2) explaining its role as Genesis’s own internal chapter-marker |
2.2 Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods Requiring Fencing
These are cases where Bengali has no shortage of candidate words — the problem is the opposite: multiple existing, commonly used religious words compete for the same semantic space, and each carries unwanted associations from Hindu devotional practice, Islamic theology, or Bengali folk religion. “Fencing” here means: retain the established term, but build a permanent translator-note apparatus around it so the unwanted neighbor-meanings do not leak in.
| Bengali Term | Doctrinal Use | Crowding Neighbor(s) | Fence |
|---|---|---|---|
| সৃষ্টি (srishti) | create ex nihilo | Puranic/Vedantic cosmic emanation & creation-preservation-dissolution (সৃষ্টি-স্থিতি-প্রলয়) cycle | Mandatory ex-nihilo/linear-time/once-for-all note at first occurrence in the core passage |
| প্রতিমূর্তি / মূর্তি (pratimurti / murti) | image of God | Idol/crafted-deity-image (দেবমূর্তি, মূর্তিপূজা) | Mandatory directionality note (God→human vs. human→god) at every occurrence |
| আশীর্বাদ (ashirbad) | Abrahamic blessing | Ritual/touch-transferred blessing from elders, gurus, deities | Mandatory “sovereign personal favor, not transferable ritual substance” note at 12:2-3; 22:17-18; 27; 49 |
| জাতি (jati) | nation/Gentiles | Hindu social caste (জাতি also = caste) | Pair with বংশ/গোষ্ঠী in Abrahamic-promise contexts; never let জাতি stand alone in a universal-scope verse |
| সাপ (shaap) | the tempter-serpent | Manasa Devi serpent-cult devotion (regional Bengali folk-Hindu practice) | First-occurrence note at Genesis 3 clarifying the serpent as a judged creature under God’s sovereignty, not a numinous or protective being |
| স্বপ্ন (swapno) | Joseph’s revelatory dreams | Folk dream-omen interpretation (cross-communal in Bengal) | Note at Genesis 37 (and reinforced at 40–41) framing dreams as sovereign, purposeful, God-given revelation, not a generic omen |
| হোমবলি / নৈবেদ্য (homboli / noibeddo) | burnt offering / offering | Vedic homa fire-ritual; puja food-offerings to an idol | Mandatory note distinguishing worship-and-atonement offerings to the one true God from ritual-merit or multi-deity offering practice |
| ভালো vs. মঙ্গল (bhalo vs. mangal) | God’s providential good (50:20) | মঙ্গল’s strong association with Mangal-Kavya devotional literature and ritual auspiciousness-seeking | Use ভালো exclusively for this doctrine; never substitute মঙ্গল, even though it is the more “natural”-sounding Bengali word in casual registers |
| সর্বশক্তিমান (sarbashaktiman, “Almighty”) | El Shaddai | শক্তি root forbidden elsewhere (Romans 1:16) for its strong Shakta-Hindu goddess-power association | Retain as a fixed liturgical/creedal title (already entrenched via the Apostles’ Creed) but attach a note at first occurrence distinguishing this fixed compound title from the bare-noun শক্তি prohibition |
| স্তম্ভ (stombho) | covenant memorial pillar | Rural folk-Hindu veneration of standing stones as a village-deity’s seat | Note at 28:18; 35:14 clarifying commemorative, not devotional, function |
| ত্বকচ্ছেদ (tôkchhed) | Abrahamic circumcision sign | সুন্নত / খৎনা (Islamic Sunnah-linked practice) | Retain ত্বকচ্ছেদ exclusively; never substitute the Islamic-idiom terms even though they are more familiar to Muslim-background readers |
| দশমাংশ (doshmangsho, tithe) | Abram’s gift to Melchizedek | Generic South Asian religious-donation culture (দান, ভিক্ষা) | Lower risk; a brief contextual note is sufficient, not a mandatory fence |
3. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decisions
| Term (Hebrew) | Decision | Bengali Form | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shiloh (שִׁילֹה) | Transliterate, do not resolve | শীলো | Genuine unresolved philological crux; resolving it in translation would silently make an exegetical decision the source text itself does not make |
| Melchizedek (מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק) | Transliterate (proper name), gloss meaning in note | মল্কীষেদক | Proper name with embedded ধার্মিকতা root (“king of righteousness”); transliteration preserves the name while a note carries the etymology and typological weight |
| El Shaddai (אֵל שַׁדַּי) | Fixed titular rendering, not transliteration | সর্বশক্তিমান ঈশ্বর | Already deeply entrenched as the established Bengali Christian creedal title; transliterating instead (“এল শাদ্দাই”) would break with universally recognized liturgical usage |
| El Elyon (אֵל עֶלְיוֹן) | Translate (titular) | পরাৎপর ঈশ্বর | Meaning-bearing title (supreme sovereignty) more important here than preserving a Hebrew sound-form unfamiliar to readers |
| YHWH (יְהוָה) | Established convention rendering, not transliteration | সদাপ্রভু | Bengali Bible tradition already renders the Tetragrammaton as a meaning-title (“the ever-existing/eternal Lord”), not a phonetic transliteration; retained for full-Bible consistency |
| YHWH-Yireh (יְהוָה יִרְאֶה) | Translate the meaning, with optional parallel transliteration in footnote | সদাপ্রভু জোগাবেন (meaning); “যিহোবা-যিরে” may be offered as a footnoted transliteration per established convention | The place-name’s theological point (God himself sees and provides) must be legible on its own in the text; the transliteration is supplementary, not primary |
| Beit-El (בֵּית־אֵל) | Transliterate (established place-name form) | বৈথেল | Standard Bengali Bible convention for this recurring place-name |
| Abraham / Sarah / Israel | Transliterate (established proper-name forms) | অব্রাহাম / সারা / ইস্রায়েল | Already fixed in the baseline and in Bengali Bible tradition generally; full-Bible consistency required |
| karat berit (“cut a covenant,” כָּרַת בְּרִית) | Paraphrase (dynamic), with literal-idiom footnote | নিয়ম স্থাপন করলেন | A literal rendering (“covenant-cutting”) would be opaque in Bengali without extensive unpacking; dynamic rendering communicates immediately, footnote preserves the vivid ritual background for teaching |
| mot tamut (“surely die,” doubled verb, מוֹת תָּמוּת) | Paraphrase with intensifier, not literal doubling | তুমি নিশ্চয়ই মরবে | Bengali does not naturally double verbs for emphasis the way Hebrew does; নিশ্চয়ই (“surely/certainly”) is the idiomatic Bengali intensifier that best preserves the certainty the doubled Hebrew verb conveys |
| ezer kenegdo (עֵזֶר כְּנֶגְדּוֹ) | Paraphrase, with corrective teaching note | তার উপযুক্ত সহকারী | No single Bengali word carries “strong equal counterpart”; paraphrase plus note is required to avoid a subordination misreading |
| le-minehu (“according to its kind,” לְמִינֵהוּ) | Translate plainly, avoid জাত/জাতি ambiguity | তার জাত অনুসারে | Here জাত means biological kind/species; a note should flag that this is not the same sense as জাতি in its social-caste usage elsewhere in Genesis |
| ish / ishah and arum / arom wordplays | Footnote only, no paraphrase attempted | পুরুষ/নারী; ধূর্ত/উলঙ্গ | As noted in §2.1, Bengali cannot reproduce the Hebrew sound-pun; the theological point must be carried by context and footnote rather than forced wordplay |
| Abba (אַבָּא, NT parallel, for continuity reference only) | Retain existing baseline transliteration | আব্বা | Not a Genesis term itself, but flagged here for cross-curriculum consistency: Genesis’s פִּי-אָבִינוּ pattern of address to God as Father anticipates this term; no change needed |
4. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities for This Curriculum
Ranked by combined severity (doctrinal centrality × strength of competing Bengali religious association × frequency in the curriculum’s core doctrines).
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ঈশ্বরের প্রতিমূর্তি (Image of God) — The single highest risk in this curriculum. প্রতিমূর্তি shares its root with মূর্তি, the everyday Bengali word for a crafted idol at the center of Hindu devotional practice (মূর্তিপূজা). Because “the Image of God” is one of the curriculum’s eight named doctrines and appears at the very heart of the core passage (1:26-27), any leakage from the idol-sense would corrupt the doctrine at its foundation. Critical.
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সৃষ্টি করা (Create Ex Nihilo) — Occurs in the opening verse of the core passage itself. Bengal’s Hindu-majority context supplies a ready-made cyclical, emanationist cosmogony (সৃষ্টি-স্থিতি-প্রলয়) using the very same headword. Every reader’s first exposure to the curriculum is at risk of this collision. Critical.
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আশীর্বাদ (Blessing, Abrahamic Promise) — The entire Abrahamic Covenant doctrine is an engine of blessing flowing to “all nations” through Abraham. If আশীর্বাদ is heard as a transferable ritual substance (as in Hindu elder/guru/deity blessing practice) rather than God’s own sovereign, personal favor, the doctrine’s theological mechanism is misunderstood at its root. Critical.
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জাতি (Nation, Universal Scope of the Promise) — জাতি’s double duty as both “nation” and “caste” in Bengali risks the universal, caste-transcending scope of God’s promise to Abraham being heard instead as a caste-bound or caste-relevant category — precisely the opposite of the doctrine’s intent, and a live social fault line in the target culture. High, escalating toward Critical in universal-scope verses (12:3; 22:18).
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সাপ (Serpent, Origin of Sin) — A risk not previously flagged with this specificity: Bengal’s regional Manasa-Devi serpent-devotion tradition (Manasa-mangal literature, folk festivals) means সাপ is not a religiously neutral animal-noun here the way it might be in many other target languages. Left unfenced, some readers may unconsciously import serpent-as-numinous-or-protective-power associations into Genesis 3, blunting the doctrine that the tempter is a judged, subordinate creature. High.
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ভালো vs. মঙ্গল (Providence, Genesis 50:20) — This is the doctrinal capstone verse of the entire Joseph narrative and the OT anchor for Romans 8:28. মঙ্গল’s deep association with Mangal-Kavya devotional literature (praise-poetry to deities for auspicious welfare) would quietly reframe God’s sovereign, personal providence as an impersonal auspiciousness-granting force. Critical, given the doctrine’s cross-curriculum linkage to Romans.
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ত্বকচ্ছেদ (Circumcision, Abrahamic Sign) — সুন্নত and খৎনা are the terms Muslim-background readers will reach for instinctively; using them would equate the Abrahamic covenant sign with a distinct Islamic rite tied to a different theological rationale (the Sunnah), directly analogous to the baseline’s already-established মশীহ/খ্রীষ্ট distinction. Critical.
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সর্বশক্তিমান ঈশ্বর (El Shaddai) — Contains the শক্তি root explicitly forbidden elsewhere in the Language Package for translating God’s power (Romans 1:16), due to strong Shakta-goddess associations in Bengal. Retaining it as a fixed creedal title while enforcing the বare-noun prohibition everywhere else requires careful, consistent fencing to avoid an apparent internal contradiction that confuses reviewers and readers alike. High.
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স্বপ্ন (Dream, Joseph narrative) — Affects the revelatory authority of the entire Joseph cycle (chs. 37, 40–41). Bengali folk practice (cutting across Hindu and Muslim popular religion) treats dreams as omens or ancestral visitations open to folk-interpretive method; without a clear fence, Joseph’s God-given interpretive gift risks being read as one folk-diviner’s skill among others. High.
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ঈশ্বরের সন্তানগণ / benei ha-Elohim (Genesis 6:2,4) — An unresolved interpretive crux in the source text itself (fallen angelic beings / Sethite line / ruling dynasts). The specific Genesis-curriculum risk is conflation with the New Testament doctrine of adoption (দত্তকপুত্রতা) already fixed in the baseline, which would import a settled soteriological category into a deliberately unresolved OT phrase. Medium, but flagged for explicit non-resolution in translation.
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স্তম্ভ (Pillar/Standing Stone, Covenant Faithfulness) — Risk of confusion with rural Bengali folk-Hindu veneration of standing stones as a village deity’s dwelling place. Lower doctrinal centrality than items 1–9 but recurring across the patriarchal narratives (28:18; 35:14). Medium.
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হোমবলি / নৈবেদ্য (Burnt Offering / Offering) — Sits directly inside existing Hindu ritual-technology vocabulary (Vedic homa; puja food-offerings). Escalates from High to Critical specifically at the Akedah (Genesis 22), where the typological line to substitutionary atonement is at stake. High, Critical at Gen 22.
5. Forward Recommendations
- All Critical-ranked ambiguities above (items 1–3, 6, 7) must carry mandatory, non-optional translator notes at every occurrence in Phase 2, not merely a first-occurrence note, given their doctrinal centrality to this curriculum’s eight named doctrines.
- Item 5 (সাপ/Manasa collision) and item 9 (স্বপ্ন/folk-omen collision) should be added explicitly to
doctrine_risk_registry.jsonin Step 9 as Genesis-specific risk notes; they are not presently captured with this specificity in the baseline Romans registry or in the existing Genesis registry notes. - The চরিত্র/title fencing required for সর্বশক্তিমান ঈশ্বর (item 8) should be documented as a standing exception to the শক্তি-prohibition rule in the Phase 2 AI system prompt, so automated validation does not incorrectly flag every occurrence of this fixed creedal title.
- The genuine gaps identified in §2.1 (chesed, nephesh chayah, ezer kenegdo, the untranslatable wordplays, Shiloh, toledot) should each receive a standing footnote template in Phase 2 tooling, since these notes will recur verbatim or near-verbatim at every occurrence.
- This analysis should be reloaded alongside
08_core_glossary.mdand both registry files before Step 9 (doctrine risk registry) and Step 10 (translation memory update) proceed.