Doctrine Analysis

Joshua — Full Doctrine Matrix and Chapter Coverage Log (Hmong Language Package)

Part A — Doctrine Matrix

The seven doctrines below are identical in id, name, tier, and routing to assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json. This matrix expands each entry with translation-requirements detail needed for Phase 2 generation planning. No doctrine in this curriculum is Low risk; four are High and two are Critical, with one (Covenant Renewal at Shechem) carrying the highest density of collision risk in the book because it is also the curriculum’s core passage.

ID	Doctrine	Supporting Passages (Joshua)	Risk Level	Translation Risk Summary	Review Routing
1	God’s Faithfulness to the Land Promise	Joshua 1:2-6; 11:23; 21:43-45; 23:14-16; 24:13	High	Positive ancestral-land resonance risks collapsing covenant grant into ancestor-spirit-land veneration; curse language (23:14-16) risks being heard as capricious spirit-displeasure rather than covenantal consequence.	Human theologian
2	Holy War and Divine Judgment	Joshua 6:17-21; 8:24-29; 10:8-14; 10:40-42; 11:11-15; 11:20	Critical	Cherem has no native lexical equivalent; risks double assimilation into (a) sacrificial-offering/appeasement domain, or (b) shamanic ritual spirit-combat, in both cases sacralizing violence as repeatable technique rather than unique judicial judgment.	Human theologian
3	Courage through God’s Presence	Joshua 1:6-9; 1:18; 10:25; 23:6	High	Hmong warrior-courage is often understood as ritually granted by spirit-allies; if the mandatory “the LORD is with you” clause is dropped, courage collapses into either bravado or shamanic empowerment.	Human theologian
4	Rahab and the Inclusion of the Nations by Faith	Joshua 2:1-14; 2:11; 6:22-25	High	Two-directional risk: flattening her Canaanite/idolatrous background into irrelevance, or misreading her rescue as a shamanic favor-for-protection bargain rather than genuine faith-confession.	Human theologian
5	Covenant Renewal at Shechem	Joshua 24:1-13; 24:14-15; 24:19-24; 24:25-27	Critical	24:14’s call to “put away the gods” directly targets living Hmong ancestral/household spirit-service (this collision IS the text’s intended point); 24:15’s human “choose” verb risks activating the fixed Critical-risk divine-election formula if rendered as a bare noun.	Human theologian
6	Obedience and the Conquest	Joshua 1:7-8; 6:1-20; 7:1-26; 11:15; 11:23	High	Achan’s cherem-violation (ch. 7) risks being read as an ordinary reparable social/ritual fault rather than a corporate covenant breach; conquest success risks being read as contingent on ritual protocol rather than covenantal obedience to a specific divine command.	Human theologian
7	Rest in the Promised Land as a Type of Salvation Rest	Joshua 1:13,15; 11:23; 14:15; 21:43-45; 22:4; 23:1	High	Lexically low-risk term (“kev so”), but doctrinally High: without explicit typological teaching, “rest” flattens to mere post-war political peace and loses its anticipatory soteriological function; the book’s own already/not-yet tension (13:1,13; 23:4-5,12-13) must be preserved.	Human theologian

Escalation note (mirrors Romans baseline convention): As in the Romans Language Package, every doctrine in this Joshua curriculum is High or Critical — there is no Medium/Low-risk doctrine — so every doctrine requires mandatory human theologian review before publication, with no automated-review bypass permitted (per assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json routing rule).

Part B — Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage Log (Full Book, Joshua 1-24)

Per the full-book-coverage mandate, every chapter is logged below. Chapters that introduce no new doctrinal load-bearing content beyond what an earlier chapter already carries are explicitly marked REVIEWED — no new doctrinal content rather than silently omitted.

Ch.	Doctrines Touched	Coverage Note
1	1 (Land Promise), 3 (Courage), 6 (Obedience), 7 (Rest)	Foundational chapter: God’s promise of the land (1:2-6), the mandatory courage+presence pairing (1:6-9), obedience to “the Law…to the right or left” (1:7-8), and the two-and-a-half-tribes’ anticipation of rest across the Jordan (1:13,15).
2	4 (Rahab/Inclusion)	Rahab’s confession (2:11) and covenant-loyalty oath (chesed) with the spies; the chapter’s entire doctrinal weight sits under Doctrine 4.
3	1 (Land Promise), 3 (Courage — presence via Ark), 6 (Obedience)	Crossing of the Jordan as fulfillment-in-progress of the land promise; Ark as presence-symbol; strict ritual obedience to Joshua’s commands mirrors ch.1’s obedience theme.
4	1 (Land Promise)	Memorial stones commemorate the land-entry as an act of God’s promise-keeping; no new doctrine beyond Doctrine 1’s expansion.
5	6 (Obedience — covenant renewal via circumcision/Passover)	Circumcision and Passover at Gilgal function as a preparatory covenant-renewal/obedience act prior to conquest; thematically anticipates but does not carry the full weight of Doctrine 5 (Shechem), logged here as reinforcing Doctrine 6.
6	2 (Holy War/Judgment — Jericho’s cherem), 4 (Rahab/Inclusion — her rescue)	Highest-density chapter alongside ch.24 for doctrinal collision risk: cherem enacted (6:17-21) and Rahab’s household spared (6:22-25) in the same narrative unit — the judgment/inclusion contrast must be preserved together.
7	2 (Holy War/Judgment), 6 (Obedience — Achan)	Achan’s violation of cherem and the corporate consequence at Ai’s first assault; central proof-text for Doctrine 6’s corporate-covenant-breach risk.
8	2 (Holy War/Judgment), 6 (Obedience), 1 (Land Promise — altar/blessing at Ebal)	Second Ai campaign (holy war); altar and reading of the Law at Mount Ebal (8:30-35) anticipates Shechem’s covenant-renewal pattern (Doctrine 5) without yet carrying its full weight.
9	4 (Rahab/Inclusion — parallel case), 5 (Covenant — Gibeonite oath)	Gibeonite deception and treaty is a structural parallel to Rahab (outsider survival via a covenant-oath device) but achieved by deceit rather than confession — must be taught as a distinct, morally complicated case, not a doctrinal equivalent to Rahab’s faith.
10	2 (Holy War/Judgment), 3 (Courage — 10:25)	Southern campaign; the sun-stands-still narrative and the explicit “be strong and courageous…for thus the LORD will do” charge (10:25) reinforce Doctrine 3.
11	1 (Land Promise — fulfillment note, 11:23), 2 (Holy War/Judgment), 7 (Rest — 11:23 “the land had rest from war”)	Northern campaign concludes the military conquest; 11:23 is a supporting passage for both Doctrine 1 and Doctrine 7 simultaneously.
12	—	REVIEWED — no new doctrinal content. Summary king-list recapitulating chs. 1-11’s conquests; reuses land/conquest vocabulary already logged under Doctrines 1, 2, 6 with no new theological term or doctrinal nuance.
13	1 (Land Promise), 7 (Rest — already/not-yet tension, 13:1,13)	Opens the land-division section; explicitly notes land not yet possessed, the book’s clearest already/not-yet statement anchoring Doctrine 7’s typological caution.
14	6 (Obedience — Caleb as exemplar), 7 (Rest — 14:15 “the land had rest from war”)	Caleb’s wholehearted following of the LORD (cf. glossary term #37) is the book’s positive obedience exemplar, paired with Doctrine 7’s rest-refrain.
15	—	REVIEWED — no new doctrinal content. Judah’s tribal boundary list; reuses “inheritance/nachalah” vocabulary already logged under Doctrine 1/7 land themes.
16	—	REVIEWED — no new doctrinal content. Ephraim’s boundary list; same as ch.15.
17	—	REVIEWED — no new doctrinal content. Manasseh’s boundary list, including daughters’ inheritance request; reuses inheritance vocabulary, no new doctrine beyond Doctrine 1.
18	—	REVIEWED — no new doctrinal content. Remaining tribal allotment and Shiloh assembly; reuses land-inheritance vocabulary.
19	—	REVIEWED — no new doctrinal content. Final tribal allotments and Joshua’s own inheritance; reuses land-inheritance vocabulary.
20	7 (Rest — typological adjacency)	Cities of refuge are not one of the seven named doctrines directly, but their OT-type-of-protection/typological-refuge function is doctrinally adjacent to Doctrine 7 (Rest as a type of salvation) and must be taught with the same “OT type, not yet NT fulfillment” discipline documented in the glossary (term #24) — logged here as reinforcing, not independently expanding, Doctrine 7.
21	1 (Land Promise — 21:43-45 capstone statement), 7 (Rest)	21:43-45 is the book’s single clearest capstone statement of promise-fulfillment (“the LORD gave…not one word failed”), serving as the primary proof-text for Doctrine 1 and a supporting passage for Doctrine 7.
22	6 (Obedience — tribal unity/altar dispute)	Transjordan tribes’ altar and the near-civil-war averted by clarifying loyalty to the one true altar/covenant; reinforces Doctrine 6’s obedience-not-ritual-technique theme and anticipates Doctrine 5’s exclusive-worship concern.
23	1 (Land Promise — warning of removal), 3 (Courage), 6 (Obedience)	Joshua’s first farewell address; restates the courage-charge (23:6), the obedience-to-Law charge, and the conditional warning that idolatry could forfeit the land, directly setting up ch. 24.
24	1, 2 (implicitly, via reference to conquest), 4 (implicitly, via recital of nations displaced), 5 (Covenant Renewal — core passage), 6, 7 (implicitly, via recital of rest/inheritance given)	Core passage chapter. Joshua 24:14-15 sits at the doctrinal convergence point of the entire book: the historical recital (24:2-13) touches Doctrines 1, 2, 4, 6, 7; the command to “put away the gods” and “choose” (24:14-15) is the dedicated proof-text for Doctrine 5, the book’s single highest-risk unit.

Coverage confirmation: All 24 chapters of Joshua are accounted for above. Chapters 12 and 15-19 are explicitly logged as REVIEWED — no new doctrinal content per the full-book-coverage mandate; they are never silently omitted.