Passage
Romans 9
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Glossary Term
Abba
Aramaic term of intimacy preserved as a transliteration, paired with Baaba, following the pattern of related regional Bible translations for Romans 8:15.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Adoption
A descriptive compound ('accepting/receiving as a child') is used since formal legal adoption in the Western sense is not a familiar category in traditional Fulani pastoralist kinship structures, which handle child-rearing and lineage primarily through extended family and clan ties rather than a formal adoption institution; this curriculum should stress the full inheritance-rights sense of Romans 8:15-17 explicitly rather than assume a ready cultural equivalent.
ROM.9.4
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Doctrine
Adoption into God's Family
Formal legal adoption is not a familiar category in traditional Fulani pastoralist kinship structures, which handle child-rearing primarily through extended family and clan ties; the full inheritance-rights sense of Romans 8:15-17 should be stated explicitly rather than assumed from a ready cultural equivalent.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Called
Context-sensitive: in 1:1 = called to apostleship; in 1:7 = called to be saints; in 8:28-30 = effectual calling to salvation.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Calling
Noun form for the act/state of being called (from nodd-, 'to call').
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Covenant
alkawal (Arabic-derived, 'promise/covenant') is used in existing Fulfulde New Testament translation titles (e.g.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
David
Standard proper name form, shared in root with the Quranic Dawud.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Davidic Covenant
Daawuda is a familiar figure from the Quranic Dawud narrative too, a point of shared recognition, but the biblical covenant narrative behind his significance in Romans differs and requires explicit OT background.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Deity of Christ
CRITICAL: directly contested by strict Tawhid doctrine at the heart of Fulani Islamic scholarly and reform tradition (echoing the 19th-century Sokoto Caliphate's reformist jihad); must not be softened, and should be explained with direct engagement of this well-known theological objection.
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Divine Calling
No specific competing traditional-religion concept identified for Fulani pastoralist culture, unlike some other languages in this pipeline; confirm regional currency of noddaandi with native speakers given the thinner base of established vocabulary.
ROM.9.11-12
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Doctrine
Effectual Calling
God's sovereign call that ensures the salvation of the called must be kept distinct from natal (fate, tied to the Islamic concept of al-qadar), a more impersonal predetermination framework than Romans 9's personal, relational election.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Election
suɓagol ('to choose/select') is God's sovereign personal choice.
ROM.9.11-12
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Glossary Term
Father
Baaba (capitalized) for God as Father is standard and doctrinally clear, resonating with strong Fulani family and lineage values.
ROM.9.4
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Glossary Term
Glory
manaango (greatness/majesty) is preferred as the primary term.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
God
Alla (from Arabic Allah) is the universal term for God across both Muslim and Christian Fulfulde speakers, with no viable alternative and no competing polytheistic default sense.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Messiah
CRITICAL: Almasiihu is transliterated directly from Arabic, shared with the Quranic title for Isa (al-Masih).
ROM.9.5
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Doctrine
Messianic Promise
CRITICAL: Almasiihu is shared vocabulary with the Quranic Isa al-Masih figure, giving readers an existing category for a figure called 'the Messiah,' but Islamic theology denies his divinity, atoning death, and resurrection.
ROM.9.5
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Glossary Term
Seed Of David
Romans 1:3; a descriptive phrase conveying physical lineage from David, resonating with the strong Fulani cultural emphasis on lineage and genealogy (important for pastoralist clan identity).
ROM.9.5