Linguistic Gap Analysis
Linguistic Gap Analysis — Acts 1–28 (English → Dogri)
Purpose and Method
This analysis identifies where Dogri’s existing vocabulary is insufficient (missing vocabulary), where it is overcrowded (a single word already carries competing devotional freight from Duggar Hindu practice and must be fenced), and where a transliteration vs. paraphrase decision must be made deliberately rather than by default. It extends the baseline Romans translation_memory.json and reuses the risk-tier conventions of doctrine_risk_registry.json without contradiction. It is organized around the nine Acts doctrines specified for this curriculum, anchored to the core passage Acts 2:1-41 (Pentecost), but scoped across the entire book, chapter 1 to chapter 28.
Acts intensifies every risk category the Romans baseline flagged (avatar-language, goddess-power, mannat-vow economy, caste purity, folk-martyrdom) because Acts is a narrative book full of concrete ritual scenes — pouring, filling, washing, vowing, sacrificing, healing, casting lots — that map onto lived Duggar religious practice far more directly than Romans’ epistolary argumentation did. This document exists to name that collision zone precisely before Phase 2 translation begins.
Part 1 — Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix
| Doctrine | Available Dogri Terms | Weaknesses / Gaps | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | पवित्तर आत्मा (baseline); पिन्तेकुस्त; पवित्तर आत्मा कन्नै भर जाना; होर बोलियां; डोहलणा/उन्ढेलणा; तेज हवा जेह्ी अवाज़; अग्ग | No native Dogri term exists for “Pentecost” itself (the Jewish festival background is absent from Duggar cultural memory); “filled” and “poured out” both have ready-to-hand but doctrinally toxic near-neighbors (oracle-possession trance; abhishek ritual pouring) | Transliterate Pentecost with mandatory first-use gloss; use compound descriptive phrases (never single verbs) for “filled” and “poured out” so the personal-agency direction (God gives; the believer receives, not is possessed) is grammatically visible |
| The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | गैर-यहूदी; खरी खबर; शुद्ध/अशुद्ध; परमेश्वर कीह् दा पख्खपात नेईं करदा; राह्; जिंदा परमेश्वर; मूर्ति; अनजाण्या परमेश्वर | शुद्ध/अशुद्ध and मूर्ति are unavoidable because they are the actual words for the actual concepts Acts 10 and Acts 17 confront — the risk is not lack of vocabulary but its prior, heavily-loaded cultural charge (caste purity; reverentially-worshipped temple images) | Do not substitute euphemisms; use the exact charged words and let the doctrinal content (God abolished the boundary; idols have no divine reality) do the corrective work explicitly, with mandatory theologian review at every occurrence |
| Repentance and Baptism | मन फिराव/मन फिराना; बपतिस्मा; पापां दी माफी; दिल च चुभ गेआ | No Dogri word for “repentance” carries whole-person Spirit-enabled reorientation without drifting toward mere regret (पछतावा) or ritual expiation via pilgrimage; बपतिस्मा as an established Christian loanword avoids the ritual-bathing trap but is unfamiliar to non-Christian hearers | Retain the compound मन फिराव (not a single native root) precisely because its unfamiliarity forces definition rather than assumed equivalence; retain बपतिस्मा as transliteration, never स्नान |
| The Church as Community | कलीसिया; संगत; तन-मन कन्नै लगे रैहे; इक मन ते इक जिंद; रोटी तोड़ना; कलीसिया दे बुजुर्ग; सेवा दा कम्म; निगरान/चरवाहा; मसीही | संगत, सेवा, and बुजुर्ग all have strong pre-existing usage in Sikh gurdwara life (sangat, sewa) and in biradari/panchayat clan-elder structures — borrowed resonance is helpful for warmth but risky for authority-source confusion | Permit the resonance for fellowship/community warmth (संगत, तन-मन कन्नै लगे रैहे) but explicitly fence बुजुर्ग and सेवा with Christ-centered qualifiers in every doctrinal (not merely narrative) occurrence |
| Apostolic Authority and Miracles | भेजेआ होया; अचम्भे ते निशान; परमेश्वर दा सेवक; पवित्तर ते धरमी जन; हथ रखणा; जादू-टोणा; भविष्य बताने वाली दुष्ट आत्मा; पासा सुट्टणा | No neutral Dogri vocabulary exists for “miracle” that isn’t already claimed by regional shrine-miracle testimony (chamatkar-language used of Vaishno Devi); जादू-टोणा and भविष्य बताने वाली दुष्ट आत्मा must carry unambiguous condemnation, not folk respect | Use अचम्भे ते निशान (wonders and signs) as an authenticating-of-Jesus formula every time, never a bare “miracle” word that could equally describe a shrine testimony; keep sorcery/divination vocabulary sharply negative and never softened to “a different but real power” |
| Persecution and Bold Witness | गवाह्; गवाही देंदे-देंदे जान देना; हिम्मत/निडरता; अक्खड़/जिद्दी; निन्दा | हिम्मत/निडरता is shared vocabulary with Dogra Rajput martial/honor courage; गवाही देंदे-देंदे जान देना sits directly beside the emotionally powerful, locally beloved Baba Jitto/Bua Kauri folk-martyr narrative | Explicitly anchor boldness to Spirit-empowerment (not izzat-defense) and Stephen’s martyrdom to forgiveness-while-dying and resurrection-testimony (not landlord-protest self-sacrifice) in every doctrinal note accompanying these terms |
| Conversion of Paul | चोन्दा भांडा; अख्खां थमां पर्दा हट्टणा; परमेश्वर दे खिलाफ अक्खड़पन दिखाना; परमेश्वर दी चोन (baseline) | No gap in available vocabulary; the risk is purely doctrinal emphasis — sovereign election language (चोन्दा भांडा) must not be flattened into a merit-reward for Paul’s zeal | Reuse baseline election entry consistently; treat “chosen instrument” as inheriting Critical-adjacent caution though tier itself is High |
| Justification apart from the Law | धर्मी ठहराए जाना (baseline); व्यवस्था; खतना; जुआ; मन्नत; शुद्धीकरण दी रीत; आपे उप्पर काबू; आनी वाला न्याय | खतना is a Perso-Arabic loanword primarily associated with Islamic practice in regional usage; मन्नत is simultaneously forbidden (for grace) and required (for the Nazirite vow) depending on context — a genuine double-bind requiring explicit fencing per occurrence | Attach a mandatory disambiguating translator note to every occurrence of खतना and every occurrence of मन्नत; never let either stand unglossed |
| The Great Commission Fulfilled | प्रचार दा कम्म (baseline); ऊप्पर चुक्केआ गेआ/स्वर्गे चढ़ाया गेआ; सदा दा जीवन/अनन्त जीवन; परमेश्वर दी सारी सलाह/मनसा; बिना रोक-टोक | ”Ascension” and “eternal life” both sit beside extremely well-developed competing frameworks (avatar-descent-and-return; moksha/liberation-from-rebirth) that are the single most theologically prestigious local alternative accounts of ultimate destiny | Never permit single-word convenience renderings for these two terms; require the full compound phrase every time, with theologian review mandatory |
Part 2 — Missing Vocabulary vs. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods
2.1 Missing Vocabulary (no adequate existing Dogri word; compound/descriptive coinage required)
These concepts have no single Dogri word that carries the needed sense at all — Dogri (and its close neighbors Hindi/Punjabi) simply lacks a lexical item, so a multi-word descriptive phrase is the only responsible option. Defaulting to a single borrowed Hindi/Sanskrit word here would either import unwanted theological baggage or fail to convey the concept at all.
| Gap | Why no single word exists | Coinage adopted |
|---|---|---|
| Pentecost (as a named event, not the festival generically) | Shavuot/covenant-renewal background is wholly absent from Duggar cultural memory | पिन्तेकुस्त (transliteration + mandatory first-use gloss) |
| “filled with the Holy Spirit” | Dogri verbs for being “filled” with anything spiritual default to trance/possession registers | पवित्तर आत्मा कन्नै भर जाना (compound, subject remains grammatically the believer, not an invading spirit) |
| “gift of the Holy Spirit” as distinct from ordinary “spiritual gifts” | No word separates a boon-for-devotion (वरदान) from an unearned personal gift | पवित्तर आत्मा दा बिना कमाई दित्ता दान (deliberate echo of baseline grace phrase) |
| ascension (as bodily, historical, once-for-all, distinct from sky-journey myth) | No neutral word for “taken up” exists without either mythic or reincarnation-cycle overtones | ऊप्पर चुक्केआ गेआ / स्वर्गे चढ़ाया गेआ |
| ”chosen instrument/vessel” | No word conveys divine sovereign selection distinct from a merit-based honor or an impersonal fate | चोन्दा भांडा |
| household salvation formula (Acts 16:31) | No single word for “household” carries the needed nuance that salvation is personal even as it moves through kinship networks | घराना/घर + explanatory teaching note (personal response required per member) |
| idiomatic expressions: “loosed the pangs of death,” “kicking against the goads,” “scales fell from his eyes” | Literal image (birth-pangs of death; ox-goad; fish-scale) has no vivid equivalent for an urban/agrarian-mixed modern Dogri readership | Meaning-based paraphrase per idiom-handling rule (content over image) |
| “whole counsel of God” | No fixed phrase for deliberate, complete divine revelation as opposed to partial teaching | परमेश्वर दी सारी सलाह/मनसा |
| ”times of refreshing / restoration of all things” | No linear-eschatology vocabulary exists independent of cyclical yuga-renewal concepts | ताजगी दे दिन / सब चीज़ां दी बहाली (paired always with a linear, once-for-all qualifier) |
2.2 Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods (existing words carry too much competing freight; require fencing, not replacement)
Unlike 2.1, these are cases where Dogri does have a word — often the only accurate word — but that word already has a strong, active devotional or social meaning in Duggar Hindu (or, in one case, Islamic-associated) practice. The fencing strategy is explicit doctrinal qualification and mandatory review, not avoidance.
| Term | Competing neighbor / active local meaning | Fencing strategy |
|---|---|---|
| शुद्ध / अशुद्ध (clean/unclean) | Live caste-purity (jāti) and untouchability categories, plus purification rites before Vaishno Devi darshan | Never leave unglossed; every occurrence must state the doctrinal point explicitly (God abolished this boundary between Jew and Gentile) rather than assume the hearer infers it |
| मूर्ति (idol/image) | The reverential, everyday word for the consecrated images at Raghunath Mandir, Bahu Fort, and the Vaishno Devi pindi | Keep the word (no substitute exists) but keep tone respectful toward neighbors while doctrinal content (no true divine reality in the object) stays fully intact; theologian review mandatory in doctrinal contexts |
| मन्नत (vow) | CRITICAL double context: forbidden as a rendering for grace (“मन्नत दा फल,” per baseline) but correct and required for the genuine OT Nazirite vow in Acts 21 | Mandatory disambiguating translator note attached to every occurrence, naming which sense is active; theologian review every occurrence |
| राह् (the Way) | Pervasive “path” language across Indian religious traditions (bhakti-marg, karma-marg, sarva-dharma-sama-bhava pluralism) | Never let राह् stand alone as the name of the Christian movement; always anchor with “मसीह दी राह्” (Christ’s Way), never a bare, ambiguously pluralistic “a path” |
| शक्ति vs. सामर्थ (divine power) | शक्ति is the primary Shakta term for goddess-power at Bahu Fort/Vaishno Devi | Baseline already forbids शक्ति for God’s power/Holy Spirit; extend the same fencing to every Acts healing/empowerment narrative without exception |
| सेवा (service, diakonia) | Sikh gurdwara sewa and temple/langar volunteer service performed for merit | Always qualify as गॉस्पल-केंद्रित/मसीह-केंद्रित सेवा in doctrinal statements; narrative mentions may stand unqualified where merit-logic is not in view |
| गवाही (witness) escalating to martyrdom | Baba Jitto/Bua Kauri folk-martyr protest-sacrifice cult, commemorated annually at Jitto Da Mela | Never let Stephen’s death stand without the explicit contrast: he testifies to the risen Christ and forgives his killers — categorically different motive and object from a protest-sacrifice against an exploitative landlord |
| डोहलणा/उन्ढेलणा (poured out) | Abhishek-style ritual pouring/anointing performed upon a deity’s image during temple consecration | Grammatical subject/object must always show God as generous personal giver acting toward people, never people or officiants acting upon a divine image |
| खतना (circumcision) | Strong contemporary association with Islamic practice in North Indian regional usage | Mandatory translator note on every occurrence: this is the first-century Mosaic covenant-sign dispute, not a Christian-Muslim controversy |
| जादू-टोणा (sorcery/magic) | Regional tona-totka occult practice and consultation of ojhas/faqirs, treated locally as a real, if morally ambiguous, power | Every occurrence must frame this as explicitly demonic/counterfeit, never as a lesser-but-real parallel power to the Holy Spirit’s |
| रोटी तोड़ना (breaking of bread) | Prasad — consecrated temple food distributed after puja | Frame as covenantal/commemorative memorial meal, never a substance made holy by ritual offering |
| मंदर (temple, literal) vs. कलीसिया (church) | Both words are needed in Acts but for different referents; the risk is not the cultural neighbor but confusing the two English source concepts | Context-discipline flag only (not cultural collision): मंदर strictly for the literal Jerusalem/pagan temple building; कलीसिया strictly for the assembly of believers; never interchange |
Part 3 — Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decision Log
| Term | Decision | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Pentecost | Transliterate (पिन्तेकुस्त) + mandatory gloss on first use | No native concept exists to paraphrase against; transliteration signals “this is a specific named event,” and the gloss supplies the missing Sinai/covenant background |
| Baptism | Transliterate (बपतिस्मा), reject paraphrase | An established regional Christian loanword already exists and correctly avoids the ritual-bathing paraphrase trap (स्नान करना); paraphrasing risks re-importing purification-rite framing |
| Messiah / Christ | Transliterate (मसीह), per baseline | Already settled in Romans baseline; carries no viable paraphrase |
| Christian | Transliterate-derived (मसीही), per baseline pattern | Built directly on मसीह; low risk, standard convention |
| Sanhedrin | Transliterate + gloss (सनहेड्रिन, यहूदी बड्डी सभा) | A specific historical institution; paraphrasing as a generic “council” would invite conflation with panchayat lineage-authority |
| Artemis / Diana | Transliterate (अरतिमिस), no paraphrase | Proper noun; paraphrasing would blur the historical specificity needed for the Ephesus narrative’s economic-resistance lesson |
| Circumcision | Retain existing loanword (खतना), not a fresh paraphrase, but attach mandatory disambiguation note | A functional word already exists in regional usage; the risk is associative confusion, not lexical gap, so a note is the correct tool, not a new coinage |
| Vow (Nazirite, Acts 21) | Retain existing native word (मन्नत), context-restricted, with mandatory note | The word is accurate for a real vow; the issue is exclusively the collision with the forbidden grace-sense, addressed by disambiguation rather than avoidance |
| The Way | Paraphrase with mandatory anchor (“मसीह दी राह्”), never bare राह् | A bare transliteration is impossible (it is an English/Greek common noun, not a proper name); the paraphrase must always carry Christ’s name to block a pluralistic reading |
| Son of Man | Paraphrase/calque (मनुक्ख दा पुत्तर), not transliteration | The phrase must carry recoverable Danielic meaning in translation; transliterating the Greek would communicate nothing to a Dogri reader |
| Gift of the Holy Spirit | Paraphrase (compound echoing baseline grace phrase), reject वरदान | Transliteration is impossible (not a proper name); the only safe path is a compound explicitly built to resist the boon-vocabulary neighbor |
| Ascension | Paraphrase (compound descriptive phrase), reject any single-verb rendering | No single verb is safe; must retain bodily, historical, one-time markers that a single word could not carry |
| Eternal Life | Paraphrase (सदा दा जीवन / अनन्त जीवन), reject मुक्ति | Descriptive compound needed to keep unending + personal + resurrection-continuous senses together; a single borrowed word would default toward liberation-theology associations |
| Idol / Image | Retain native word (मूर्ति), no substitute coined | Coining an artificial substitute word would be linguistically dishonest (it is the accurate word) and would not remove the doctrinal tension, only hide it; tone discipline is the correct safeguard instead |
| Sorcery / Magic | Retain native compound (जादू-टोणा), no softening substitute | Accurately names the real regional practice being condemned; softening it would weaken the polemic Acts itself intends |
Part 4 — Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities (This Curriculum)
Ranked by combined doctrinal centrality and density of cultural collision, drawing on Parts 1–3 above. All items ranked Critical/High require mandatory human theologian review per occurrence, per the escalation rules in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md.
- शुद्ध / अशुद्ध (clean/unclean, Acts 10) — Critical. Directly engages live caste-purity and untouchability categories; the single highest-stakes term newly introduced in Acts.
- मन्नत (vow) dual-context double-bind (grace-forbidden vs. Nazirite-vow-required, Acts 21) — Critical. The only term in this curriculum that is simultaneously forbidden and required depending on context; a missed disambiguation note directly reproduces the exact error the baseline was built to prevent.
- पवित्तर आत्मा दा बिना कमाई दित्ता दान (gift of the Holy Spirit) vs. वरदान (boon) — Critical. Simon’s error in Acts 8 is precisely an attempt to buy this gift as one buys occult/temple favor; failure here collapses the entire grace-vs-mannat distinction the baseline was designed around.
- मूर्ति (idol/image, Acts 7, 14, 15, 17, 19) — Critical. The identical word reverentially names Duggar temple images; doctrinal force must survive without becoming a sociological insult.
- बपतिस्मा (baptism) vs. स्नान (ritual bathing) — Critical. The single most concrete ritual-action collision in the book; a lapse into स्नान vocabulary anywhere would silently re-baptize converts into a purification framework.
- पवित्तर आत्मा कन्नै भर जाना (filled with the Spirit) vs. oracle/trance possession — High. Acts 2’s defining event is uniquely vulnerable to being reheard as a familiar local phenomenon (masani/devi-possession) rather than a unique, unrepeated, personal indwelling.
- होर बोलियां (other tongues) — real languages vs. ecstatic utterance — High. Without the v.6/8/11 anchoring detail, this could assimilate to shamanistic trance-speech expectations.
- डोहलणा/उन्ढेलणा (poured out) vs. abhishek ritual pouring — High. Grammatical subject/object direction (God gives to people, not people upon an image) is easy to lose in translation and hard to self-check without a native reviewer.
- गवाही देंदे-देंदे जान देना (witness unto death) vs. Baba Jitto folk-martyr cult — High. Emotionally resonant local counter-narrative that could make Stephen’s death more immediately understandable for the wrong reasons (protest-sacrifice) rather than the right one (resurrection testimony, forgiveness).
- राह् (the Way) vs. sarva-dharma-sama-bhava “one path among many” — High. “Path” vocabulary is the most theologically loaded shared vocabulary between Christian and Hindu-devotional register in North India; omission of the Christ-anchor is a silent but severe doctrinal leak.
- खतना (circumcision) vs. Islamic-practice association — High. Regional listeners are statistically more likely to associate this Perso-Arabic loanword with a living neighboring faith community’s practice than with a first-century Jewish-Christian dispute; risk is social/interfaith confusion more than direct heresy, but severe enough to require a note every time.
- जादू-टोणा (sorcery) vs. tona-totka/ojha practice as a real neighboring power — High. Acts repeatedly stages direct confrontations (Simon, the sons of Sceva, Elymas, the Philippian slave-girl) where a “lesser-but-real” reading would undercut the exclusivity of the Spirit’s power.
- जिंदा परमेश्वर / बेकार चीज़ां (living God / idols as vain things, Acts 14, 17) — High. Sharp Creator/creature polemic must be preserved without drifting into direct condemnation of specific living neighbors’ devotional objects by name.
- रोटी तोड़ना (breaking of bread) vs. prasad — High. A weekly, recurring church practice is at stake, not a one-time narrative event; consistent fencing across every occurrence in Acts 2 and beyond is required.
- सेवा दा कम्म (table service / diakonia) vs. seva-for-merit — Medium-High. Lower doctrinal centrality than the items above but high frequency of exposure since सेवा is such common regional vocabulary; requires consistent qualification rather than one-time correction.
Part 5 — Full-Book Chapter Coverage Ledger
Confirms every chapter of Acts has been reviewed for linguistic-gap purposes. Chapters contributing no new vocabulary beyond baseline/already-logged terms are marked explicitly rather than omitted.
| Ch. | Doctrine focus / key terms in play | Gap-analysis status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kingdom of God (corrected); casting lots; ascension; witness (programmatic) | New terms logged (ascension, casting lots); reviewed |
| 2 | Pentecost core passage — filled with the Spirit, tongues, poured out, day of the Lord, call on the name of the Lord, repentance, baptism, gift of the Spirit, breaking of bread, devoted themselves | Anchor chapter; full term set logged and fenced above |
| 3 | Servant of God title; Holy and Righteous One; resurrection; power of God | New Christological titles logged; reviewed |
| 4 | No other name; boldness; one heart and soul; intercession | New Critical exclusivity term logged; reviewed |
| 5 | Lying to the Holy Spirit; fear of God; Sanhedrin; obedience of faith (implicit) | New term logged (lying to Spirit); reviewed |
| 6 | Table service/diakonia; laying on of hands; apostle | New church-office term logged; reviewed |
| 7 | Son of Man; witness unto death; stiff-necked; idol (implicit, golden calf) | New Critical Christology + martyrdom terms logged; reviewed |
| 8 | Gospel to Samaria; sorcery/magic (Simon); gift of the Spirit vs. bought power | Sorcery/magic term logged; reviewed |
| 9 | Conversion of Paul — chosen instrument, scales fell from eyes, Son of God, the Way, election | New conversion-narrative terms logged; reviewed |
| 10 | Clean/unclean; God’s impartiality; God-fearer; gospel to Gentiles | Highest-priority Critical term (clean/unclean) logged; reviewed |
| 11 | Christian (name at Antioch); household salvation background; gentiles receiving the Spirit | New low-risk identity term logged; reviewed |
| 12 | Intercession/prayer for Peter; providence; persecution | No new terms beyond baseline providence/intercession; reviewed, no new vocabulary |
| 13 | Justification (explicit statement); seed of David; imputed righteousness (implicit); light to Gentiles; election (Gentiles appointed to eternal life) | Baseline salvation-cluster terms re-invoked; reviewed |
| 14 | Living God; idols as vain things; kingdom of God; wonders and signs | New polemical terms logged; reviewed |
| 15 | Jerusalem Council — grace (verdict); circumcision; yoke; idol food; law | New Justification-apart-from-Law cluster logged; reviewed |
| 16 | Baptism (household); spirit of divination; Roman citizen; providence (Philippian jailer) | New occult-contrast and legal terms logged; reviewed |
| 17 | Unknown god; living God; idols as vain things; “in him we live and move”; resurrection (mocked) | New Areopagus-speech cluster logged; reviewed |
| 18 | Church; law (Gallio’s ruling); no significant new vocabulary | Reviewed, no new vocabulary beyond baseline reuse |
| 19 | Baptism (John’s vs. Christian); sorcery/magic; idol/image (Artemis); the Way; temple (literal) | New terms (Artemis, temple-literal fencing) logged; reviewed |
| 20 | Elders; overseer/shepherd; whole counsel of God; breaking of bread; providence | New church-office and providence-extension terms logged; reviewed |
| 21 | Vow (Nazirite); ceremonial purification (OT); temple (literal); law | Critical context-restricted vow term logged; reviewed |
| 22 | Roman citizen; law; scales-fell idiom background; witness | No new terms beyond already-logged narrative/legal vocabulary; reviewed |
| 23 | Resurrection (intra-Jewish dispute); Sanhedrin | No new terms; baseline resurrection entry re-invoked; reviewed, no new vocabulary |
| 24 | Self-control; judgment to come; righteousness; faith | New ethical/eschatological terms logged; reviewed |
| 25 | Appeal to Caesar; Roman legal process | New legal-narrative term (disambiguated from “calling on the Lord”) logged; reviewed |
| 26 | Called/calling; resurrection; kicking against the goads; repentance; light to Gentiles | Idiom and conversion-cluster terms logged; reviewed |
| 27 | Providence (storm at sea); thanksgiving; intercession | No new terms beyond baseline providence/thanksgiving reuse; reviewed, no new vocabulary |
| 28 | Unhindered (closing note); thanksgiving; kingdom of God; gentiles | New closing-note term (unhindered) logged; reviewed |
Coverage confirmation: All 28 chapters of Acts have been reviewed for linguistic gaps. No chapter has been silently omitted; chapters 12, 18, 22, 23, and 27 are explicitly noted as reviewed with no new vocabulary beyond terms already logged elsewhere in this analysis or inherited unchanged from the Romans baseline.
Summary
Acts presents a denser and more concrete collision surface than Romans because its narrative form stages literal ritual actions (pouring, filling, washing, vowing, sacrificing, casting lots) that map directly onto observable Duggar religious practice, rather than argued theological propositions alone. The fifteen highest-risk ambiguities in Part 4, together with the fencing strategies in Part 2.2 and the transliteration decisions in Part 3, must be fully ratified into an updated translation_memory.json (version increment, per 12_ai_translation_requirements.md) before Phase 2 segment translation of Acts begins. No Critical or High risk term identified here may be used in Phase 2 without human theologian sign-off on the specific Dogri rendering.