Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis — 1 Corinthians (English → Hebrew)
This document executes PRD Phase 1 Step 4/5 full-book doctrine mapping for 1 Corinthians 1–16, extending the baseline Romans Language Package. It is doctrine-for-doctrine and tier-for-tier consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (25 doctrines; Critical 5 / High 12 / Medium 6 / Low 2). Nothing here contradicts that registry; this file adds the full-book chapter mapping, translation-risk detail, and review routing rationale that the registry references but does not spell out chapter by chapter.
The core passage, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, is the theological anchor of the whole curriculum (Resurrection of Christ and Believers; Apostolic Tradition and Gospel Transmission; Atonement of Christ) but every chapter of the book is mapped below — no chapter is silently skipped.
Part A — Full Doctrine Matrix
| # | Doctrine | Key Terms | Supporting Passages (1 Cor) | Risk | Translation Risk Summary | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Resurrection of Christ and Believers | resurrection, appeared, fell_asleep, first_adam_last_adam, natural_body_spiritual_body, firstfruits | 15:1-11 (core), 15:12-58 | Critical | Judaism affirms a future general resurrection as a Principle of Faith; the novel claims are (a) a resurrection already accomplished for one individual as guarantee/firstfruits, breaking the Rabbinic single-unbroken-reign messianic template, and (b) a transformed “spiritual body” that must not be misheard as disembodiment. | Human theologian |
| 2 | Christian Unity versus Factionalism | divisions, strife, boasting, wisdom, church | 1:10-17, 3:1-9, 4:6-7, 11:18-19 | High | Machloket (dispute) carries a positive rabbinic category (“machloket le-shem shamayim”); Paul’s condemnation of party-strife around named leaders must be clearly distinguished from that tradition so the doctrine is not softened into acceptable factionalism. | Human theologian |
| 3 | The Cross as Wisdom and Power | cross, crucified, stumbling_block, wisdom, foolishness, power_of_god | 1:17-25, 1:27-31, 2:1-5 | Critical | Tzlav/nitzlav carry direct historical trauma (pogroms, forced conversion under the cross); “a crucified Messiah” is the central point of historical Jewish-Christian dispute, compounded by Deuteronomy 21:23. | Human theologian |
| 4 | Church Discipline and Holiness | sexual_immorality, leaven, unleavened, passover, temple, holy | 5:1-13, 6:9-20 | High | The chametz/Pesach purging metaphor draws on one of Judaism’s most detailed practiced observances; risk of over-literalizing into dietary chametz-removal or under-weighting the moral seriousness Paul intends. | Human theologian |
| 5 | Marriage and Singleness | marry, virgin, unmarried, divorce, self_control | 7:1-40 | High | Paul’s elevation of celibacy sits in real tension with the mitzvah-status Jewish emphasis on marriage/procreation (peru u-revu, Gen 1:28); must be taught as situational, eschatologically motivated counsel, not devaluation of marriage. | Human theologian |
| 6 | Christian Liberty and Idol Meat | idol, food_sacrificed_to_idols, conscience, knowledge, liberty_right, weak | 8:1-13, 10:14-33 | High | Eidolothyton has no exact halakhic category parallel; risk that a reader imports a strict kashrut-style forbidden-substance framework onto Paul’s conscience-and-conduct argument. | Human theologian |
| 7 | The Lord’s Supper | lords_supper, body, blood, new_covenant, remembrance, cup_of_the_lord, discern_the_body | 10:16-21, 11:17-34 | Critical | ”Body and blood” directly collides with Torah’s blood-consumption prohibition (Lev 17:10-14; Gen 9:4); requires deliberate teaching of symbolic/memorial character. New-covenant language (11:25) invokes Jeremiah 31:31’s contested Gentile extension. | Human theologian |
| 8 | Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ | spiritual_gifts, tongues, interpretation_of_tongues, manifestation, miracles, body_of_christ, members | 12:1-31 | High | Escalated from Romans’ Medium-risk spiritual_gifts doctrine; tongues (leshonot) is an unfamiliar phenomenon not reducible to ordinary multilingual ability; body-of-Christ metaphor must align with Romans 11’s grafting-in framework. | Human theologian |
| 9 | Love as the Greater Way | love, hope, faith | 13:1-13 | Medium | Ahavah is rich and positive (echoes the Shema’s “ve-ahavta”) but everyday romantic/casual usage risks diluting Paul’s demanding, self-giving definition unless surrounding descriptive content carries the theological weight. | Native speaker review |
| 10 | Order in Worship | head_covering, headship, silence, order, edify, tongues, prophecy | 11:2-16, 14:1-40 | High | Head-covering already exists as a well-known Jewish practice for different halakhic reasons; Paul’s creation-order headship argument risks assimilation into that distinct rationale. 14:34-35 is among the epistle’s most exegetically contested passages. | Human theologian |
| 11 | Apostolic Tradition and Gospel Transmission | gospel, delivered_tradition, faith | 15:1-3 (core), 11:2, 11:23 | High | Masoret is precisely the Rabbinic transmission-chain word (Pirkei Avot); a genuine positive resource if taught as a closed, complete first-generation deposit, not an open, still-developing Oral-Torah-style process. | Human theologian |
| 12 | Atonement of Christ | atonement, passover, sin | 5:7, 15:3 (core) | Critical | Kapparah is the central Yom Kippur category; the leap from ritual/sacrificial kapparah and Passover-lamb typology to one person’s death as final kapparah for all sin is the single largest doctrinal claim in these passages. | Human theologian |
| 13 | Federal Headship of Adam and Christ | first_adam_last_adam, sin, resurrection, natural_body_spiritual_body | 15:21-22, 15:45-49 | High | Extends the baseline’s High-risk universal_human_accountability collision into its positive counterpart (Christ as new federal head of resurrection life); mainstream Jewish anthropology (yetzer hatov/yetzer hara, real moral freedom) does not default to an inherited nature transmitted through one federal head. | Human theologian |
| 14 | Temple of the Holy Spirit | temple, body, holy_spirit, holy | 3:16-17, 6:19-20 | High | Heichal names the Jerusalem Temple’s inner sanctuary, whose destruction is mourned (Tisha B’Av) and whose rebuilding remains live messianic hope; applying this to church/believer bodies is a major theological claim requiring explicit teaching. | Human theologian |
| 15 | Baptism into Christ | baptism, body_of_christ, holy_spirit | 1:13-17, 10:1-2, 12:13, 15:29 | High | Tevilah is the established mikveh-immersion word (positive resource), but Christian baptism must be distinguished from repeatable ritual-purification immersion; it is a single, unrepeated identification with Christ’s death/resurrection. | Human theologian |
| 16 | Church as Body of Christ | church, body_of_christ, members | 6:15, 6:19, 12:12-27 | Critical | Builds on baseline’s Critical church doctrine (never עדה, never Israel-replacement framing); the organic body-metaphor must cohere with Romans 11’s grafting-in framework. | Human theologian |
| 17 | Sexual Holiness and the Body | sexual_immorality, one_flesh, bought_with_a_price, body | 5:1, 6:9-20, 7:1-9 | Medium | Zenut is well-established, low lexical risk; teaching point is the corporate discipline response and that the ordinary body is itself “bought with a price” — commercial purchase-language kept distinct from covenantal ge’ulah. | Native speaker review |
| 18 | Mystery of God’s Wisdom | mystery, wisdom, spiritual_person, natural_person | 2:6-16, 4:1, 13:2, 14:2, 15:51 | Medium | Raz (preferred over sod) has strong Danielic precedent without sod’s Kabbalistic-mystical PaRDeS overtone; risk limited to ensuring consistent avoidance of an esoteric-mystical reading frame. | Native speaker review |
| 19 | Stewardship of Ministry | steward, servant, reward, building_edify, judge | 3:5-15, 4:1-5, 9:16-27 | Medium | Sochen and gemul are low-risk, standard Modern Hebrew terms; the teaching risk is keeping post-salvation ministerial reward clearly distinct from grace-based justification. | Native speaker review |
| 20 | Giving and Generosity | collection, grace | 16:1-4 | Medium | Megbit deliberately avoids the tzedek/tzedakah lexical family per the baseline’s charity-narrowing caution; low collision risk once followed consistently. | Native speaker review |
| 21 | Church Discipline and Excommunication | anathema, leaven, sexual_immorality, judge | 5:1-13, 16:22 | High | Cherem is a serious, historically weighty category (formal rabbinic ban, e.g. against Spinoza); its gravity requires the specific object of Paul’s pronouncement to be clearly connected, not left as an isolated severe pronouncement. | Human theologian |
| 22 | Eschatological Hope | hope, trumpet, victory, immortality, incorruption | 13:13, 15:51-58 | Medium | Shofar (last trumpet) carries strong positive resonance with Rosh Hashanah/ingathering expectation (Isa 27:13); a real teaching asset, though the specific NT sequence must be distinguished from the broader Jewish eschatological shofar expectation. | Native speaker review |
| 23 | Jew-Gentile Unity in One Body | greek_ethnic, slave, free_person, body_of_christ, israel | 10:18, 12:13 | High | Extends baseline’s Critical unity_of_jews_and_gentiles doctrine; “Israel according to the flesh” (10:18) and the baptismal unity formula (12:13) must be taught within Romans 11’s grafting-in, not-replacement framework. | Human theologian |
| 24 | Christian Fellowship and Greeting | fellowship, holy_kiss, maranatha | 1:9, 16:19-24 | Low | Shutafut and neshikah kedoshah carry no significant doctrinal collision; Maranatha preserved untranslated per the Abba convention. | Automated review |
| 25 | Mutual Edification in Worship | building_edify, edify, order | 3:9-15, 8:1, 10:23, 14:3-26 | Low | Binyan/livnot carries no doctrinal collision; positive resonance with the Passover Seder’s own name (“order”) reinforces the teaching. | Automated review |
Risk totals (must match doctrine_risk_registry.json): Critical 5 · High 12 · Medium 6 · Low 2 · Theologian review 17 · Native speaker review 6 · Automated 2.
Part B — Full-Book Chapter Coverage (PRD Full-Book Mandate)
Every chapter 1–16 is accounted for below. Where a chapter’s content is already fully captured under a doctrine mapped from an earlier or later chapter, that is stated explicitly rather than left implicit.
| Ch. | Content Summary | Doctrines Active | Coverage Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greeting; thanksgiving; factional strife named; the cross vs. worldly wisdom introduced; baptism dispute | #2 Christian Unity, #3 The Cross, #15 Baptism, #24 Fellowship/Greeting | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 2 | Preaching not in wisdom of words; the Spirit reveals God’s wisdom; spiritual vs. natural person | #3 The Cross, #18 Mystery of God’s Wisdom | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 3 | Carnal factionalism; Paul/Apollos as fellow-servants; believers as God’s temple; ministry reward | #2 Christian Unity, #14 Temple of the Holy Spirit, #19 Stewardship, #25 Mutual Edification | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 4 | Apostles as stewards/servants; judgment belongs to the Lord; fatherly appeal | #2 Christian Unity, #19 Stewardship | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 5 | Case of sexual immorality; leaven/unleavened bread and Passover-Christ typology; call to discipline | #4 Church Discipline and Holiness, #12 Atonement of Christ, #17 Sexual Holiness, #21 Church Discipline and Excommunication | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 6 | Lawsuits among believers; body as temple of the Holy Spirit; sexual immorality; “bought with a price” | #4 Church Discipline, #14 Temple of the Holy Spirit, #16 Church as Body of Christ, #17 Sexual Holiness | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 7 | Marriage, celibacy, divorce, widowhood, calling in one’s situation | #5 Marriage and Singleness | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 8 | Food offered to idols; knowledge vs. love; conscience of the weak | #6 Christian Liberty and Idol Meat, #25 Mutual Edification | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 9 | Paul’s apostolic rights forgone; running the race; self-discipline | #6 Christian Liberty and Idol Meat, #19 Stewardship | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 10 | Israel’s wilderness history as warning; idolatry; the cup/table of the Lord introduced; liberty and love | #6 Christian Liberty and Idol Meat, #7 The Lord’s Supper, #23 Jew-Gentile Unity, #25 Mutual Edification | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 11 | Head covering and headship in worship; institution of the Lord’s Supper; discerning the body | #10 Order in Worship, #7 The Lord’s Supper, #11 Apostolic Tradition (11:2, 23) | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 12 | Spiritual gifts; one Spirit, many gifts; the body of Christ, many members; Jew/Greek, slave/free unity | #8 Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ, #16 Church as Body of Christ, #23 Jew-Gentile Unity, #15 Baptism (12:13) | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 13 | Love defined and exalted above gifts; the greater way; partial knowledge now, full knowledge later | #9 Love as the Greater Way, #22 Eschatological Hope (13:13) | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 14 | Tongues and prophecy regulated; edification as governing criterion; order in worship; women’s silence (14:34-35) | #10 Order in Worship, #18 Mystery of God’s Wisdom (14:2), #25 Mutual Edification | Reviewed — full coverage |
| 15 | Core passage 15:1-11: gospel received, tradition delivered, Christ died/was buried/rose/appeared; resurrection of believers argued; first Adam/last Adam; resurrection body; last trumpet and final victory | #1 Resurrection of Christ and Believers, #11 Apostolic Tradition and Gospel Transmission, #12 Atonement of Christ, #13 Federal Headship, #22 Eschatological Hope | Reviewed — theological anchor of the curriculum |
| 16 | The collection for the saints; closing instructions; Maranatha; the holy kiss; final greetings; anathema on those without love for the Lord | #20 Giving and Generosity, #21 Church Discipline and Excommunication (16:22), #24 Fellowship and Greeting | Reviewed — full coverage |
No chapter of 1 Corinthians is without load-bearing doctrinal content; none is omitted from Phase 2 processing scope.
This file is doctrine-tier-consistent with assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json version 1. Any future revision to risk tiers must update both files together.
See analysis/08_core_glossary.md for the term-level detail underlying each doctrine’s translation risk.
See analysis/04_comparative_theology.md for cross-tradition interpretive comparison feeding these risk assessments.
Critical Risk Doctrines
The Resurrection of Christ and Believers
Hebrew name: תחיית המשיח והמאמינים
Key terms: resurrection, appeared, fell_asleep, first_adam_last_adam, natural_body_spiritual_body, firstfruits
Review routing: Human theologian
Extends the baseline’s Critical resurrection_of_christ doctrine by arguing FROM Christ’s resurrection TO believers’ own future bodily resurrection. Judaism affirms a future general resurrection as a Principle of Faith (mechayeh hametim), so the reader must hold that together with the novel claims of a transformed ‘spiritual body’ (guf ruchani, not disembodiment) and Christ’s resurrection as a firstfruits-guarantee that breaks the Rabbinic single-unbroken-reign messianic template.
The Cross as Wisdom and Power
Hebrew name: הצלב כחכמה וכוח
Key terms: cross, crucified, stumbling_block, wisdom, foolishness, power_of_god
Review routing: Human theologian
Tzlav/nitzlav carry direct historical trauma for Hebrew-speaking readers (pogroms and forced conversion historically enacted under the sign of the cross); additionally, ‘a crucified Messiah’ (Mashiach nitzlav, 1:23) is the central historical point of Jewish-Christian dispute, compounded by Deuteronomy 21:23’s ‘cursed is everyone hung on a tree,’ historically read by some as disqualifying a crucified figure from messianic candidacy.
The Lord’s Supper
Hebrew name: סעודת האדון
Key terms: lords_supper, body, blood, new_covenant, remembrance, cup_of_the_lord, discern_the_body
Review routing: Human theologian
Language of ‘body and blood’ (guf ve-dam) directly collides with the Torah’s severe, explicit, repeated blood-consumption prohibition (Leviticus 17:10-14; Genesis 9:4); requires the most deliberate teaching of the Supper’s symbolic/memorial character, distinct from any implication of literal blood-consumption, while the new-covenant language (11:25) directly invokes Jeremiah 31:31’s own contested extension to Gentiles apart from Torah observance.
Atonement of Christ
Hebrew name: כפרת המשיח
Key terms: atonement, passover, sin
Review routing: Human theologian
Kapparah is the central Yom Kippur category and Pesach the central festival of Jewish national memory; the conceptual leap from ritual/sacrificial kapparah (animal sacrifice, the scapegoat, the High Priest’s mediation) and the Passover-lamb typology to a single historical person’s death functioning as final kapparah for all sin is the single largest doctrinal claim in these passages and must be taught explicitly, not assumed.
Church as Body of Christ
Hebrew name: הקהילה כגוף המשיח
Key terms: church, body_of_christ, members
Review routing: Human theologian
Builds directly on the baseline’s Critical-risk church doctrine (never עדה, never framed as Israel’s replacement); the organic body-metaphor here (guf ha-Mashiach) must be held together with Romans 11’s grafting-in framework so that ‘many members, one body’ does not read as a supersessionist replacement image displacing Israel.
High Risk Doctrines
Christian Unity versus Factionalism
Hebrew name: אחדות המאמינים לעומת פילוג
Key terms: divisions, strife, boasting, wisdom, church
Review routing: Human theologian
Machloket (dispute) carries a positive rabbinic category (‘machloket le-shem shamayim,’ dispute for the sake of Heaven); Paul’s condemnation of Corinthian party-strife around named leaders must be clearly distinguished from that positive halakhic-debate tradition so the doctrine is not softened into an acceptable form of factionalism.
Church Discipline and Holiness
Hebrew name: מוסר הקהילה והקדושה
Key terms: sexual_immorality, leaven, unleavened, passover, temple, holy
Review routing: Human theologian
The chametz/Pesach purging metaphor (5:6-8) draws on one of the most detailed, practiced halakhic observances in Jewish life; risk that a reader either over-literalizes to dietary chametz-removal or under-appreciates the moral seriousness Paul intends by deliberately invoking this specific festival imagery for church discipline.
Marriage and Singleness
Hebrew name: הנישואין והרווקות
Key terms: marry, virgin, unmarried, divorce, self_control
Review routing: Human theologian
Paul’s elevation of celibacy (‘it is good for a man not to touch a woman,’ 7:1; ‘I wish that all were as I myself am,’ 7:7) sits in real tension with the strong, mitzvah-status Jewish emphasis on marriage and procreation (peru u-revu, Genesis 1:28); must be taught as situational, eschatologically-motivated counsel, not a general devaluation of marriage.
Christian Liberty and Idol Meat
Hebrew name: החירות המשיחית ומאכל האלילים
Key terms: idol, food_sacrificed_to_idols, conscience, knowledge, liberty_right, weak
Review routing: Human theologian
Eidolothyton (food offered to idols) has no exact halakhic category parallel, since kashrut addresses permitted/forbidden substances on different grounds; risk that a Hebrew-speaking reader imports a strict kashrut-style forbidden-substance framework onto Paul’s more nuanced, conscience-and-conduct-based argument.
Spiritual Gifts and the Body of Christ
Hebrew name: המתנות הרוחניות וגוף המשיח
Key terms: spiritual_gifts, tongues, interpretation_of_tongues, manifestation, miracles, body_of_christ, members
Review routing: Human theologian
Escalated from the baseline Romans Medium-risk spiritual_gifts doctrine because 1 Corinthians 12 develops both the phenomenon of tongues (leshonot, an unfamiliar Spirit-given utterance not reducible to ordinary multilingual ability) and the body-of-Christ metaphor (guf ha-Mashiach) at far greater length, requiring careful alignment with Romans 11’s grafting-in framework so ‘one body’ language is never read as Israel’s replacement.
Order in Worship
Hebrew name: הסדר בעבודת האלוהים
Key terms: head_covering, headship, silence, order, edify, tongues, prophecy
Review routing: Human theologian
Head-covering already exists as a well-known Jewish practice (married women’s hair-covering, men’s kippah) for different halakhic reasons (modesty, mitzvah); Paul’s creation-order headship argument (11:3, 8-9) risks assimilation into that existing but distinct rationale. Additionally, 14:34-35’s instructions regarding women are among the most exegetically contested passages in the epistle and must be rendered accurately without resolving the interpretive debate in translation.
Apostolic Tradition and Gospel Transmission
Hebrew name: מסורת השליחים והבשורה
Key terms: gospel, delivered_tradition, faith
Review routing: Human theologian
Masoret (tradition) is precisely the word for the chain of Rabbinic transmission (Pirkei Avot’s ‘Moshe received Torah from Sinai and handed it on’); a genuine positive resource if taught explicitly as a real, Sinai-like transmission chain, but risks being read as an open, still-developing Oral-Torah-style process rather than a closed, complete apostolic deposit fixed in the first generation.
Federal Headship of Adam and Christ
Hebrew name: ראשות פדרלית - אדם והמשיח
Key terms: first_adam_last_adam, sin, resurrection, natural_body_spiritual_body
Review routing: Human theologian
Extends the baseline’s High-risk universal_human_accountability collision (mainstream Jewish anthropology of yetzer hatov/yetzer hara in tension, with real moral freedom, does not default to an inherited corrupted nature transmitted through a single federal head) into its positive counterpart here (Christ as a new federal head of resurrection life), requiring the same explicit teaching against that anthropological default.
Temple of the Holy Spirit
Hebrew name: היכל רוח הקודש
Key terms: temple, body, holy_spirit, holy
Review routing: Human theologian
Heichal is precisely the term for the Jerusalem Temple’s inner sanctuary, the single most sacred structure in Jewish history and hope, whose destruction is mourned annually (Tisha B’Av) and whose rebuilding remains a live messianic expectation; applying this language to the corporate church and to individual believers’ bodies is a major theological claim (the Spirit’s presence no longer localized to a physical structure) requiring explicit teaching and sensitivity to ongoing Jewish longing for the Temple’s restoration.
Baptism into Christ
Hebrew name: הטבילה במשיח
Key terms: baptism, body_of_christ, holy_spirit
Review routing: Human theologian
Tevilah is the established word for ritual immersion (mikveh), a genuine positive resource, but the risk is precisely that Christian baptism must be distinguished from repeatable ritual-purification immersion; it is a single, unrepeated identification with Christ’s death and resurrection, not an ongoing purity practice.
Church Discipline and Excommunication
Hebrew name: מוסר קהילתי ונידוי
Key terms: anathema, leaven, sexual_immorality, judge
Review routing: Human theologian
Cherem is a serious, historically weighty category in Jewish law (formal rabbinic excommunication/ban, e.g., the cherem pronounced against Spinoza); its gravity means the specific object of Paul’s pronouncement (lack of love for the Lord, or the unrepentant sexual sin of ch. 5) must be clearly and explicitly connected in teaching, not left as an isolated, free-floating severe pronouncement that could be misapplied.
Jew-Gentile Unity in One Body
Hebrew name: אחדות היהודי והגוי בגוף אחד
Key terms: greek_ethnic, slave, free_person, body_of_christ, israel
Review routing: Human theologian
Extends the baseline’s Critical-risk unity_of_jews_and_gentiles doctrine; ‘Israel according to the flesh’ (10:18) and the baptismal unity formula ‘Jews or Greeks, slave or free’ (12:13) must be taught within Romans 11’s grafting-in, not-replacement framework, given the maximal personal weight these categories carry for a Hebrew-speaking reader specifically.
Medium Risk Doctrines
Love as the Greater Way
Hebrew name: האהבה כדרך הנעלה
Key terms: love, hope, faith
Review routing: Native speaker review
Ahavah is a rich, positive Hebrew word (echoing the Shema’s ‘ve-ahavta’) but its constant everyday use for romantic and casual affection risks diluting Paul’s specific, demanding, self-giving definition (13:4-7) unless the surrounding descriptive content itself carries the theological weight.
Sexual Holiness and the Body
Hebrew name: קדושת המין והגוף
Key terms: sexual_immorality, one_flesh, bought_with_a_price, body
Review routing: Native speaker review
Zenut is a well-established Torah-rooted term (Leviticus 18-20) with low lexical risk; the more significant teaching point is the corporate church-discipline response Paul demands, and the theological claim that the ordinary body is itself sacred, ‘bought with a price’ - commercial purchase-language distinct from covenantal ge’ulah (redemption) that must be kept in a separate register.
Mystery of God’s Wisdom
Hebrew name: רז חכמת האלוהים
Key terms: mystery, wisdom, spiritual_person, natural_person
Review routing: Native speaker review
Raz (preferred over sod) carries strong Danielic-biblical precedent (Daniel 2’s ‘raza’) without sod’s stronger Kabbalistic-mystical PaRDeS overtone; risk is limited to ensuring the term consistently avoids importing an esoteric-mystical reading frame across its several recurrences.
Stewardship of Ministry
Hebrew name: הנאמנות בשירות
Key terms: steward, servant, reward, building_edify, judge
Review routing: Native speaker review
Sochen (steward/manager) and gemul (reward) are lexically low-risk, standard Modern Hebrew terms; the teaching risk is keeping post-salvation ministerial reward (misthos) clearly distinguished from grace-based justification, so faithful labor is not read as the basis of right standing before God.
Giving and Generosity
Hebrew name: הנתינה והנדיבות
Key terms: collection, grace
Review routing: Native speaker review
Megbit (fundraising campaign) is deliberately preferred over any term touching the tzedek/tzedakah lexical family, per the baseline’s caution that tzedakah has narrowed in Modern Hebrew to mean specifically ‘charity’; low collision risk once this lexical choice is followed consistently.
Eschatological Hope
Hebrew name: התקווה האחרונה
Key terms: hope, trumpet, victory, immortality, incorruption
Review routing: Native speaker review
Shofar (last trumpet, 15:52) carries strong, genuinely positive resonance with Jewish eschatological expectation (the shofar blasts of Rosh Hashanah and the anticipated ‘great shofar’ of ingathering, Isaiah 27:13); a real teaching asset, though the specific NT sequence (bodily resurrection at this trumpet) should be distinguished from, while related to, the broader Jewish eschatological shofar expectation.
Low Risk Doctrines
Christian Fellowship and Greeting
Hebrew name: השותפות והברכה ההדדית
Key terms: fellowship, holy_kiss, maranatha
Review routing: Automated review
Shutafut and neshikah kedoshah carry no significant doctrinal collision; Maranatha is preserved as an untranslated Aramaic loanword per the Abba convention, retaining its primitive-church liturgical immediacy.
Mutual Edification in Worship
Hebrew name: הבנייה ההדדית בעבודה
Key terms: building_edify, edify, order
Review routing: Automated review
Binyan/livnot carries no doctrinal collision; positive resonance with the Passover Seder’s own name (meaning ‘order’) reinforces rather than threatens the teaching.
Referenced passages