AI Translation Requirements

12 AI Translation Requirements and Instruction Set — Luke (German)

English → German | Luke 1–24 | Language Package

Source language: English Destination language: German Curriculum: Luke 1–24 Generated: 2026-07-11

Purpose

Extends (never contradicts) the promoted Romans baseline and the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Matthew, and Mark packages generated 2026-07-11. The longest curriculum in the German portfolio to date.

Pre-flight Checklist

Load this package’s, all six prior packages’, and the promoted Romans translation memory, term registry, and doctrine registry, plus this document, applied in addition to the Romans, Matthew, and Mark baselines’ system prompts for shared triple-tradition material.

System Prompt Additions for Luke

CRITICAL FORBIDDEN SUBSTITUTIONS NEW TO THIS LUKE PACKAGE:
- "Den Armen" (4:18; 6:20): NEVER spiritualized away from its concrete economic sense the way
  Matthew's "poor in spirit" (5:3) is -- Luke's own distinctive emphasis must be preserved.
- Der barmherzige Samariter / der verlorene Sohn: NEVER presented in teaching material without
  reconnecting the widely known German cultural idiom to its full theological context.
- Vater, vergib ihnen (23:34): NEVER presented with unqualified textual certainty given its
  genuinely disputed manuscript authenticity.

DOCTRINAL PRESERVATION RULES NEW TO THIS LUKE PACKAGE:
1. The Nazareth Manifesto (4:16-21): Luke's programmatic mission statement must frame the whole
   Gospel's subsequent concern for the poor and marginalized.
2. The Magnificat, Benedictus, and Nunc Dimittis: match established German liturgical phrasing
   given their centuries of shared liturgical and musical use across confessions.
3. Luke's economic Beatitudes and woes (6:20-26): teach as a genuinely distinct emphasis from
   Matthew's spiritualized parallel, not a stylistic variant of the same saying.
4. The prodigal son (15:11-32): preserve the full two-part structure including the unresolved
   elder-brother ending, addressed to Pharisaic critics.
5. Three textual-critical questions unique to this Gospel (11:1-13's shorter Lord's Prayer,
   22:19b-20's manuscript variation, 22:43-44/23:34's disputed authenticity): each requires
   transparent documentation in teaching material without affecting inclusion or translation in
   the text itself.
6. The ascension (24:51): present as Luke's own distinctive structural bridge to Acts, unique
   among the four Gospels in this pipeline for narrating it explicitly.

TONE REQUIREMENTS: identical register to prior baselines. Luke's historian's preface (1:1-4)
establishes a careful, orderly narrative register appropriate to Luke's stated purpose (1:3-4).

READING LEVEL TARGET: identical to prior baselines.

TRANSLITERATION STANDARDS: prior baseline entries apply unchanged, extended with Luke's unique
proper names (e.g. Theophilus, Zacharias, Elisabeth, Kleopas).

FOOTNOTE REQUIREMENTS: unchanged mechanism, with the addition that all three Luke-specific
textual-critical notes carry transparent framing in teaching material.

AMBIGUITY HANDLING: unchanged protocol. Luke 23:43's punctuation ambiguity (whether "today"
modifies "I say" or "you will be with me") follows the standard, near-universal rendering.

ESCALATION RULES NEW TO THIS LUKE PACKAGE:
Automatically flag for human theologian review, in addition to prior baseline lists:
- ALL 16 doctrines in this package's doctrine registry require theologian review, continuing the
  pattern established in the Matthew and Mark packages.
- The three textual-critical notes specifically (11:1-13, 22:19b-20, 22:43-44/23:34), for
  transparency-framing review in addition to standard doctrinal accuracy review.

FLAG but allow native speaker review (not theologian required):
- None in this package, consistent with the Matthew and Mark packages' profile.

Validation Rules

In addition to every check in the prior baselines’ validation tables:

Validation Rule	Check
Economic poverty language preserved	Verify 4:18 and 6:20’s “den Armen” retains concrete economic sense
Cultural-idiom reconnection	Verify teaching material for the prodigal son and Good Samaritan reconnects the widely known idiom to its theological content
Prodigal son two-part structure	Verify the elder-brother material (15:25-32) is not silently omitted
Three textual-critical notes present	Verify transparent framing for 11:1-13, 22:19b-20, and 22:43-44/23:34
Liturgical canticle match	Verify the Magnificat, Benedictus, and Nunc Dimittis match established German liturgical phrasing

Cross-Reference Preservation Rules

Luke = Lukas; abbreviation Lk.; citation format “Lukas 4,18” (comma, not colon).
Isaiah, Deuteronomy, and Psalm citations shared with prior curricula must render consistently.

Translation Memory Load and Enforcement Instructions

Identical mechanism to prior baselines: load this package’s and all six prior packages’ translation memory at session start.

Glossary Enforcement Priority Order

Identical to the Romans baseline.

Theological Consistency Rules Across Documents

Rule	Rationale
Same German term for the same Greek/English theological term across all documents	Learner consistency
Same rendering of Luke 4:16-21 across all documents	Core passage of this curriculum
Shared triple-tradition passages identical to Matthew/Mark packages	Cross-Gospel consistency
Magnificat, Benedictus, Nunc Dimittis matching established German liturgical text	Liturgical consistency

Performance Notes for Batch Processing

Identical to prior baselines.

Load this document as part of the pre-flight checklist before every Phase 2 translation session. See translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json for the enforcement databases. See 11_doctrine_analysis.md for full doctrine risk level reference.