Linguistic Gap Analysis
Linguistic Gap Analysis: Acts 1–28 (English → Maithili)
1. Purpose and Method
This analysis identifies where existing Maithili vocabulary (the Romans baseline Language Package plus the Acts-specific terms already registered in analysis/08_core_glossary.md) is adequate, where it is structurally weak, and where it is entirely absent, across the full sweep of Acts 1–28. It supplements the core glossary rather than repeating it: the glossary answers “what is the approved rendering?”; this document answers “why is that rendering the best available option, what did it cost us, and what should Phase 2 reviewers watch for?”
Four outputs are required and provided below:
- A Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix — one row per curriculum doctrine, naming available terms, their weaknesses, and the recommended handling strategy.
- A Missing Vocabulary Register — load-bearing Acts terms that have no prior entry in the baseline or the Table A/B glossary, discovered during this pass and requiring addition before Phase 2 segment translation begins.
- A Crowded Semantic Neighborhood register — concept-clusters where multiple Maithili words compete for the same doctrinal space and must be actively “fenced” apart from one another.
- A Transliteration vs. Paraphrase decision log, and a ranked list of the curriculum’s highest-risk ambiguities.
A full-chapter coverage confirmation closes the document per the PRD’s full-book mandate.
2. Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix
| Doctrine | Available Maithili Terms | Weaknesses / Gaps Identified | Recommended Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Holy Spirit and Pentecost | पवित्र आत्मा (baseline, Critical); पिन्तेकुस्त, अन्य भाषासभ, प्रचण्ड आँधी सन आवाज, आगि सन जीभ, पवित्र आत्माक उपहार, आत्मिक वरदान (Table B) | No settled Maithili Christian tradition names this feast or its phenomena at all; the closest lexical neighbors (पवन/Vayu, अग्नि/Agni, भक्त-भाव trance states) belong to active regional ritual and possession practice, not neutral vocabulary. | Transliterate the proper name (पिन्तेकुस्त); use descriptive phrases, never single deity-linked nouns, for wind and fire signs; mandatory translator note at first occurrence of each phenomenon distinguishing it from Vayu/Agni veneration and from devī-āveś trance-speech. |
| The Gospel to Jews and Gentiles | सुसमाचार, अन्यजाति, राष्ट्र/देश, पक्षपात, अन्यजातिक हेतु ज्योति | यहूदी (“Jew/Jews”) has no registry entry at all, despite being one of the most frequent proper-referent terms in Acts (2:5, 14; 9:22-23; 10:39; 13:5; 14:1; 17:1; 18:2, etc.). Without a fixed entry, translators risk improvising inconsistent forms (यहूदी लोग / यहूदी जाति / यहूदी सभ) across documents. | Add यहूदी as a Low-risk standard proper-ethnonym entry (see §3 below) with an explicit note that it names historical/ethnic identity, not a caste category, keeping it terminologically separate from जाति. |
| Repentance and Baptism | मन फेराव (primary) / पश्चाताप (secondary gloss); बपतिस्मा; पापक क्षमा; हृदयमे तीव्र रूपसँ बिझा गेला; प्रभुक नाम पुकारब | मन फेराव is a two-word paraphrase, not a single settled lexeme, and पश्चाताप alone (without the primary term) can drift toward generic remorse/guilt or even suggest प्रायश्चित-style ritual expiation if used carelessly by reviewers unfamiliar with the fencing rule. | Always render the compound मन फेराव first, with पश्चाताप only as a bracketed secondary gloss, never standalone; treat Acts 2:38 as the fixed reference rendering for all later occurrences (3:19; 17:30; 26:20). |
| The Church as Community | मण्डली, सङ्गति, रोटी तोड़ब, प्रार्थना, सभटा वस्तु मिलिकेँ राखब, एक हृदय आ एक प्राण, प्राचीन, अध्यक्ष/निरीक्षक, सेवा, जन/व्यक्ति | सेवा occupies a crowded neighborhood (guru-sevā, temple/deity-sevā); प्राचीन must stay clear of village panchayat (पंच) resonance; जन/व्यक्ति correctly avoids आत्मा for the “souls” headcount sense. | Retain all Table A/B renderings; attach the mandatory सेवा fencing note (diaconal service to fellow believers, never devotional service to an image or living guru) at every occurrence in chs. 6, 11, 20. |
| Apostolic Authority and Miracles | प्रेरित, अद्भुत कार्य आ चिन्ह, जियाओल गेल, गोटी फेकब, बुद्धि, जादू-टोना/तंत्र-मंत्र, भविष्यवाणी करएबला दुष्ट आत्मा, दुष्ट आत्मा | अद्भुत कार्य आ चिन्ह must be actively fenced from सिद्धि (yogic/tantric attainment); जियाओल गेल must never bleed into पुनरुत्थान — the two are one letter-family apart in doctrinal weight (Critical vs. High) yet describe superficially similar events (Tabitha/Eutychus vs. Christ). | Enforce a hard rule: पुनरुत्थान is reserved exclusively for Christ’s resurrection and the future final resurrection; जियाओल गेल/गेली is the only permitted rendering for Acts 9:40-41 and 20:9-12, with a standing translator note at both occurrences. |
| Persecution and Bold Witness | साक्षी, निडरता, सतावनी/उत्पीड़न, सम्प्रदाय/पंथ, न्याय आसन, मनुष्यक बजाय परमेश्वरक आज्ञा मानब | Maithili has no distinct single-word “martyr” lexeme matching the semantic shift the Greek μάρτυς itself undergoes from Stephen’s death (ch. 7) onward; साक्षी alone does not signal that shift to a reader. | Retain साक्षी throughout (matching the Greek’s single lexeme), but from Acts 7:58 onward pair it with the qualifying phrase प्राणपर्यन्त साक्षी (“witness even unto death”) at the first occurrence in each new martyrdom-adjacent passage (7:58-60; 22:20); avoid शहीद, which carries a specific Islamic-martyrdom register in North Indian usage. |
| Conversion of Paul | मार्ग, चुनल पात्र, आँखिसँ छिलका सन खसल, उत्साही/जोशी, स्वर्गीय दर्शन, शैतानक अधिकार, जीवनक स्रोत आ अगुआ | मार्ग and दर्शन are each independently crowded (see §4); together in the same narrative arc (chs. 9, 22, 26) they compound reviewer risk if notes are dropped in abbreviated Phase 2 passes. | Apply the mandatory translator note at every occurrence of both terms, not only the first in the book; consider a visual convention (e.g., quotation-marking “मार्ग”) in learner-facing material to flag its technical status. |
| Justification apart from the Law | धर्मी घोषित कएल जाएब, धार्मिकता, आरोपित धार्मिकता, व्यवस्था, खतना, शुद्धिकरण (ch. 21, contextual), न्याय | शुद्धिकरण is correct only in its narrow ch. 21 ceremonial-rite sense; if a reviewer reuses it near Romans-derived पवित्रीकरण material, sanctification risks being read as ritually achieved, directly undermining this doctrine’s “apart from the Law” thesis. | Restrict शुद्धिकरण strictly to Acts 21:24, 26 with a standing note; never allow it to substitute for पवित्रीकरण anywhere else in the curriculum. |
| The Great Commission Fulfilled | सुसमाचार प्रचार, मसीही, मूर्ति, अज्ञात देवता, सन्तान, न्याय-देवी, निर्बाध, जीवित परमेश्वर, ऊपर उठाओल गेला आ बादर हुनका आँखिसँ ओझल कऽ देलक | The Ascension (1:9-11) has only a full descriptive clause, no short noun form suitable for section headings or cross-references, since स्वर्गारोहण is correctly rejected (Pandava-ascent association). This is a genuine coinage gap. | Coin a new compact heading-only term प्रभुक ऊर्ध्वगमन (“the Lord’s upward-going,” from ऊर्ध्व + गमन, a Sanskrit-tatsama compound carrying no Mahabharata association) for use strictly in titles/cross-references, while the full descriptive clause remains mandatory in running text. Flag this coinage for theologian review before adoption. |
3. Missing Vocabulary Register
The following load-bearing Acts terms were checked against both the baseline translation_memory.json and the Acts Table A/B glossary and found absent from both. They must be added to translation memory before Phase 2 segment translation, since without a fixed entry, parallel Phase 2 workers will otherwise improvise divergent renderings.
| # | Term (English) | Frequency in Acts (representative) | Proposed Maithili | Risk | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jew(s) | 2:5, 14; 9:22-23; 10:39; 13:5; 14:1; 17:1; 18:2, 24; 19:13-14; 21:20, 39; 22:3; 26:3 | यहूदी | Low | Standard ethnonym across North Indian Bible translation; must be kept terminologically separate from जाति (caste) per the baseline gentiles fencing note. |
| 2 | Synagogue | 6:9; 9:2, 20; 13:5, 14, 42-43; 14:1; 17:1, 10, 17; 18:4, 7, 19, 26; 19:8; 22:19; 24:12; 26:11 | यहूदी सभा-घर | High | A functional institution with no exact regional analogue; must be described, not transliterated, and kept distinct from both मण्डली (church, new-covenant assembly) and मन्दिर (Jerusalem Temple) so the three institutions are never conflated in a single narrative (they frequently appear together, e.g., ch. 13, 17-19). |
| 3 | Pharisee | 5:34; 15:5; 23:6-9; 26:5 | फरीसी | Medium | Transliterated party name, established North Indian convention; must be introduced with a brief descriptive gloss (a Jewish religious-legal party) rather than assimilated to a generic “priest” or “guru” category. |
| 4 | Sadducee | 4:1; 5:17; 23:6-8 | सदूकी | Medium | Companion transliteration to Pharisee; doctrinally significant at 23:8 (denial of resurrection) — must be glossed precisely so the resurrection controversy is clear. |
| 5 | High priest | 4:6; 5:17, 21, 27; 7:1; 9:1; 19:14; 22:5; 23:2, 4-5; 24:1 | महायाजक | Low | Standard Sanskrit-tatsama compound, already the settled North Indian Bible-translation form; no viable local alternative and no collision risk. |
| 6 | Angel | 5:19; 7:30, 35, 38, 53; 8:26; 10:3, 7, 22; 11:13; 12:7-11, 15, 23; 23:8-9; 27:23 | स्वर्गदूत | Medium | Must be fenced from देवता/देवदूत, terms with active folk-pantheon and local-deity associations (grām devatā); स्वर्गदूत (“heavenly messenger”) keeps the sense of a created, personal, sent messenger rather than a minor deity. |
| 7 | Sabbath | 1:12; 13:14, 27, 42, 44; 15:21; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4 | सब्त (विश्रामदिन as gloss) | Medium | Transliterate as established in North Indian Christian usage (सब्त), glossed on first occurrence as “day of rest”; avoid rendering as a generic weekly holy day that could merge with unrelated regional observance days. |
| 8 | Fasting | 13:2-3; 14:23; 27:9 | उपवास | Medium | Standard word, but must carry a note distinguishing Spirit-led, prayer-focused fasting from regional vrat-upvās practiced for merit-accrual or vow-fulfillment toward a chosen deity. |
| 9 | Blasphemy | 6:11, 13; 19:37; 26:11 | ईश्वर-निन्दा | Medium | Compound clarifies this is specifically speech dishonoring God, not general insult (निन्दा alone is too broad and secular). |
| 10 | Sanhedrin (council) | 4:15; 5:21, 27, 34, 41; 6:12, 15; 22:30; 23:1, 6, 15, 20, 28; 24:20 | महासभा | Low | Standard descriptive compound (“great council”); distinguish from मण्डली (church assembly) and from village पंचायत. |
These ten additions should be merged into translation_memory.json and bible_term_registry.json prior to Phase 2, incrementing the translation memory version per the pipeline’s stated procedure.
4. Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods Requiring Active Fencing
Several Maithili lexical fields host multiple competing doctrinal senses simultaneously, a structural risk distinct from simple missing vocabulary. Each cluster below requires an explicit, standing “fence” — a rule reviewers apply every time, not only at first occurrence.
| Cluster | Competing Senses | Fencing Rule |
|---|---|---|
| आत्मा-root cluster | पवित्र आत्मा (Holy Spirit, Critical) / दुष्ट आत्मा (evil spirit, Critical) / आत्मा alone (Hindu ātman/soul) / जन-व्यक्ति (headcount “souls”) | आत्मा must never stand unqualified in doctrinal text — always paired with पवित्र or दुष्ट. The counting sense (“about three thousand souls,” 2:41) must use जन/व्यक्ति, never आत्मा, to avoid an accidental ātman reading. |
| सेवा cluster | Diaconal सेवा (Acts 6) / guru-sevā / temple or deity-sevā | सेवा permitted only with contextual scaffolding identifying it as service to fellow believers under apostolic oversight, never devotional service rendered to an image or living teacher. |
| मार्ग cluster | ”The Way” (Christian self-designation, Critical) / bhakti-mārg / karma-mārg / jñāna-mārg | Standing translator note required at every occurrence (9:2; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14, 22) affirming Christ as the sole Way, not one path among several equally valid options. |
| दर्शन cluster | स्वर्गीय दर्शन (Paul’s unique revelatory vision, High) / temple murti-darśan (reciprocal deity-viewing) | Clarify this is a unique, unrepeatable, historical revelatory event, not a devotional temple practice available to worshippers generally. |
| शक्ति/सामर्थ्य/अधिकार cluster | परमेश्वरक सामर्थ्य (God’s saving/authenticating power) / शक्ति (Shakta-goddess power, forbidden) / शैतानक अधिकार (Satan’s dominion) | सामर्थ्य reserved for God’s power; अधिकार reserved for Satan’s dominion; शक्ति excluded from all doctrinal register, especially acute at the Artemis narrative (ch. 19) and Simon Magus (ch. 8). |
| वरदान/उपहार cluster | आत्मिक वरदान (ministry gifts) / पवित्र आत्माक उपहार (gift of the Spirit at conversion) / वरदान alone (Puranic boon) | Keep all three lexically distinct; वरदान alone is always forbidden; उपहार is reserved for the conversion-gift sense, आत्मिक वरदान for ongoing ministry enablements. |
| धर्म/व्यवस्था/सम्प्रदाय cluster | धार्मिकता (righteousness) / व्यवस्था (Mosaic Law) / सतीत्व (chastity ideal, forbidden) / सम्प्रदाय/पंथ (sect, outsider label for the church) | सम्प्रदाय must carry a note that it reflects the accusers’ framing (24:5, 14), not the church’s own self-understanding as fulfillment rather than one tradition among others. |
| अग्नि/आगि cluster | आगि सन जीभ (tongues of fire, neutral) / अग्नि (Vedic sacrificial fire-deity, forbidden) | Never substitute अग्नि even as a poetic variant; आगि is mandatory throughout Pentecost material. |
| पाताल/अधोलोक/हेडेस cluster | हेडेस (transliterated realm of the dead) / पाताल, अधोलोक (richly mythologized Puranic underworld) | Transliteration with gloss only; no native lexeme permitted as primary rendering. |
| मुक्ति/मोक्ष/उद्धार cluster | उद्धार (salvation, Critical) / मुक्ति, मोक्ष (rebirth-cycle liberation, forbidden) | Especially acute at the Philippian jailer’s question (16:30-31), the curriculum’s central catechetical moment; उद्धार only. |
| अवतार/देहधारण/जीवित परमेश्वर cluster | देहधारण (incarnation, Critical) / अवतार (forbidden) / जीवित परमेश्वर (contrastive term at Lystra) | The Lystra episode (14:11-15) is the sharpest live test case in the whole book; every occurrence of any term in this cluster requires the standing incarnation translator note. |
| प्रायश्चित/मन फेराव/पश्चाताप cluster | मन फेराव (repentance, grace-granted inward turning) / प्रायश्चित (ritual expiation, forbidden) | प्रायश्चित never used even as a gloss; पश्चाताप permitted only as secondary gloss to मन फेराव. |
| स्नान/बपतिस्मा cluster | बपतिस्मा (baptism, one-time identification with Christ) / स्नान (repeatable ritual bathing) | स्नान forbidden in doctrinal contexts; transliteration मandatory. |
| शुद्धिकरण/पवित्रीकरण cluster | शुद्धिकरण (ch. 21 literal OT rite only) / पवित्रीकरण (ongoing Spirit-sanctification) | Never interchange; keep the ch. 21 occurrence tightly scoped. |
| जाति/अन्यजाति/यहूदी/राष्ट्र-देश cluster | अन्यजाति (Gentiles) / यहूदी (Jews) / जाति (caste, forbidden in this sense) / राष्ट्र-देश (nation, neutral) | जाति excluded from all four; consistent use of अन्यजाति and यहूदी as the two covenant-history categories, राष्ट्र/देश for generic “nations” (2:5). |
5. Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decision Log
| Term | Decision | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Pentecost | Transliterate (पिन्तेकुस्त) | A specific historical feast-day proper name; no native paraphrase avoids the risk of misidentifying it as a recurring seasonal festival. |
| Hades | Transliterate + gloss (हेडेस, “realm of the dead”) | Paraphrase options (पाताल, अधोलोक) are too richly mythologized in regional Puranic cosmology to serve as neutral vocabulary. |
| Artemis | Transliterate (आर्तेमिस/दियाना) | Proper name of a specific pagan deity; no paraphrase is possible or desirable — the text names her explicitly as a false god to be contrasted with the living God. |
| Sabbath | Transliterate + gloss (सब्त, “day of rest”) | Matches established North Indian Christian usage; a paraphrase like “विश्रामदिन” alone risks reading as a generic rest day rather than the specific seventh-day observance central to synagogue-attendance narratives. |
| The Way | Paraphrase from existing lexeme, heavily fenced (मार्ग + mandatory note) | No transliteration is possible since it renders a common Greek word (ὁδός); the paraphrase is retained precisely because avoiding मार्ग entirely would sever the reader from recognizing this as the book’s programmatic self-designation for the Christian movement. |
| Ascension (heading use) | New native coinage (प्रभुक ऊर्ध्वगमन, heading-only) | Transliteration is not applicable (this is an English/theological label, not a proper name); the existing paraphrase (descriptive clause) is too long for headings, and the natural short noun (स्वर्गारोहण) is rejected for its Pandava-ascent association. |
| Synagogue | Paraphrase (यहूदी सभा-घर) | Transliteration (e.g., “सिनागाग”) would read as a foreign loanword with no recognition value; the descriptive compound conveys the institution’s nature (a Jewish assembly-house) while keeping it visibly distinct from मण्डली and मन्दिर. |
| Pharisee / Sadducee | Transliterate (फरीसी / सदूकी) | These are specific historical party names with no functional Maithili equivalent; transliteration with a glossing note is the established North Indian Bible-translation convention. |
| Jesus, Messiah, Abba, Amen, Hallelujah | Transliterate (as per baseline) | Reaffirmed unchanged from the Romans baseline; Acts introduces no new pressure on these decisions. |
| Sorcery / spirit of divination / demon | Paraphrase, never transliterate (जादू-टोना/तंत्र-मंत्र; भविष्यवाणी करएबला दुष्ट आत्मा; दुष्ट आत्मा) | These name a condemned practice/being using existing Maithili moral vocabulary; transliterating a Greek technical term here would strip away the very real-world resonance with regional ojha/tantra-mantra practice that the translator notes are designed to leverage pastorally. |
6. Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities
Ranked by combined weight of (a) doctrinal risk tier, (b) intensity of cultural/religious collision, and (c) frequency/prominence within the curriculum’s core passage (Acts 2:1-41) and the book as a whole.
- देहधारण vs. अवतार (Incarnation) — Critical; Mithila’s own Ramayana-geography makes this the single highest-stakes collision in the entire curriculum; sharpened by the Lystra “gods came down as men” episode (14:11-15).
- मार्ग (“the Way”) — Critical; sits directly inside the crowded bhakti-mārg/karma-mārg/jñāna-mārg semantic field with no paraphrase escape.
- उद्धार vs. मुक्ति/मोक्ष (Salvation) — Critical; the book’s most frequent evangelistic term, anchored at the core passage (2:21, 40, 47) and the jailer’s question (16:30-31).
- जादू-टोना/तंत्र-मंत्र (Sorcery, Simon Magus / Elymas) — Critical; direct real-world overlap with actively practiced regional occult vocabulary.
- पवित्र आत्मा (Holy Spirit) — Critical; the single most frequent theologically load-bearing term in the book (40+ occurrences), always vulnerable to unqualified आत्मा drift.
- आगि सन जीभ vs. अग्नि (Tongues of fire) — Critical; direct collision with actively practiced havan/yagna ritual fire, at the core passage’s most visually vivid moment (2:3).
- पक्षपात / no partiality (10:34) — Critical; direct doctrinal confrontation with the Panjikaran caste-lineage verification system.
- जियाओल गेल vs. पुनरुत्थान (resuscitation vs. resurrection) — High/Critical boundary; the two events are narratively similar (Tabitha, Eutychus) but doctrinally must never share a term with Christ’s own resurrection.
- साक्षी (witness → martyr semantic shift) — High; no dedicated Maithili “martyr” lexeme exists, risking flattened reading of Stephen’s death onward.
- स्वर्गीय दर्शन (heavenly vision) vs. temple murti-darśan — High; especially acute across the three retellings of Paul’s conversion (chs. 9, 22, 26).
- मूर्ति (idol, Areopagus argument) — Critical; deeply embedded regional murti-pūjā tradition requires careful, non-inflammatory but doctrinally clear handling (17:16-29).
- आर्तेमिस/Artemis vs. regional Shakta-goddess devotion — Critical; the clearest whole-Bible parallel to the baseline’s Ugratara-shrine caution (19:24-41).
- भविष्यवाणी करएबला दुष्ट आत्मा (spirit of divination) vs. oracle-possession/devī-āveś — Critical; live regional exorcism/possession practice (16:16-18).
- सेवा (diaconal service) vs. guru-sevā/temple-sevā — High; recurring throughout the Church-as-Community material (ch. 6 onward).
- शुद्धिकरण (ch. 21 purification rite) vs. पवित्रीकरण (sanctification) — High; a narrow-scope term that risks contaminating the broader sanctification doctrine if handled carelessly.
- वरदान / उपहार / आत्मिक वरदान — High; three-way gift-terminology field vulnerable to collapse into a single word under translation pressure.
- यहूदी (newly identified gap) — Medium-High as a process risk: without a fixed registry entry, parallel Phase 2 workers may render this inconsistently across documents, undermining cross-document consistency discipline.
- यहूदी सभा-घर / synagogue (newly identified gap) — Medium-High; risk of conflation with मण्डली or मन्दिर if left to translator improvisation, especially where all three institutions appear in the same passage (chs. 13, 17-19).
- उपवास (fasting) vs. regional vrat-upvās merit-fasting — Medium; recurring at commissioning moments (13:2-3; 14:23).
- स्वर्गदूत (angel) vs. देवता/देवदूत folk-pantheon collision — Medium; frequent throughout (Peter’s prison release, Cornelius, Herod’s death) and previously unaddressed in the glossary.
7. Full-Book Chapter Coverage Confirmation
Every chapter of Acts was reviewed for linguistic-gap purposes, cross-referenced against analysis/08_core_glossary.md’s Table A/B chapter citations plus the new gaps identified in §3 above:
- Ch. 1 — kingdom_of_god (political-kingdom risk), ascension (coinage gap, §2/§6), casting lots, office. Reviewed, fully covered.
- Ch. 2 — Core passage; Pentecost cluster (Pentecost, tongues, wind, fire, devout, nations), last days, wonders and signs, Day of the Lord, call on the name of the Lord, Hades, repentance, baptism, forgiveness, gift of the Spirit, souls, breaking of bread, common ownership. Fully covered; anchor of the curriculum.
- Ch. 3 — Holy and Righteous One, Author of Life, times of refreshing, restoration of all things, seed of Abraham. Reviewed, fully covered.
- Ch. 4 — boldness, high priest (gap, §3), Sanhedrin (gap, §3), one heart and soul. Reviewed, gaps closed.
- Ch. 5 — great fear, obey God rather than men, Sadducee (gap, §3), Sanhedrin. Reviewed, gaps closed.
- Ch. 6 — diaconal service, wisdom, synagogue (gap, §3), false witness. Reviewed, gaps closed.
- Ch. 7 — stiff-necked, stoning, glory (Stephen’s vision), witness→martyr shift begins, patriarch, father. Reviewed, fully covered.
- Ch. 8 — sorcery (Simon Magus), persecution, eunuch, gospel to Samaria. Reviewed, fully covered.
- Ch. 9 — scales from eyes, the Way, chosen instrument, Son of God (Paul’s first sermon), raised to life (Tabitha), Pharisee background. Reviewed, fully covered.
- Ch. 10 — God-fearer, common/unclean, no partiality, power of God. Reviewed, fully covered.
- Ch. 11 — Christian name, word of God increased, elders. Reviewed, fully covered.
- Ch. 12 — great fear/angel (Peter’s release, gap closed §3), intercession, glory (Herod). Reviewed, minimal new vocabulary beyond angel gap; noted explicitly.
- Ch. 13 — set apart for ministry, light for the Gentiles, appointed to eternal life, justification apart from the Law (13:38-39, key anchor), Sabbath (gap, §3), synagogue. Reviewed, gaps closed.
- Ch. 14 — living God, Lystra incarnation-collision episode, tribulation. Reviewed, fully covered; highest-priority chapter for incarnation fencing.
- Ch. 15 — circumcision, food sacrificed to idols, it seemed good, grace vs. law (Jerusalem Council). Reviewed, fully covered.
- Ch. 16 — spirit of divination, Roman citizen, salvation (jailer’s question), baptism. Reviewed, fully covered; highest-priority chapter for salvation fencing.
- Ch. 17 — idol, unknown god, offspring, judgment seat, resurrection mocked by Athenians. Reviewed, fully covered.
- Ch. 18 — Sabbath, synagogue, vow. Reviewed, gaps closed.
- Ch. 19 — Artemis, demon (sons of Sceva), sorcery books, power of God. Reviewed, fully covered; highest-priority chapter for power-of-God/शक्ति fencing.
- Ch. 20 — elders, overseer, shepherd, raised to life (Eutychus), unhindered theme begins. Reviewed, fully covered.
- Ch. 21 — purification rite (narrow-scope, ch.21-only term), vow. Reviewed, fully covered; highest-priority chapter for शुद्धिकरण/पवित्रीकरण fencing.
- Ch. 22 — the Way, zealous, heavenly vision, Roman citizen. Reviewed, fully covered.
- Ch. 23 — sect, Pharisee/Sadducee resurrection dispute (gap-closing term reused), judgment seat. Reviewed; minimal new vocabulary beyond party-name gaps closed in §3, noted explicitly per prior glossary’s observation.
- Ch. 24 — sect, judgment (future), righteousness (Felix). Reviewed; minimal new vocabulary, noted explicitly.
- Ch. 25 — appeal to Caesar, judgment seat. Reviewed; minimal new vocabulary, noted explicitly per prior glossary’s observation.
- Ch. 26 — heavenly vision, power of Satan, Christian name, resurrection, boldness. Reviewed, fully covered.
- Ch. 27 — providence (shipwreck narrative), thanksgiving. Reviewed; contributes no new theological vocabulary beyond providence’s thematic reinforcement, noted explicitly per prior glossary’s observation rather than silently omitted.
- Ch. 28 — idol/superstition (Justice personified), unhindered (climactic closing term), living God. Reviewed, fully covered; highest-priority chapter for cross-document consistency discipline on निर्बाध.
Coverage confirmation: All 28 chapters reviewed. Ten previously undocumented but load-bearing terms (यहूदी, यहूदी सभा-घर, फरीसी, सदूकी, महायाजक, स्वर्गदूत, सब्त, उपवास, ईश्वर-निन्दा, महासभा) are identified in §3 and must be merged into translation memory before Phase 2 begins. No chapter is silently omitted.
8. Summary and Recommendations for Phase 2
- Merge the ten §3 additions into
translation_memory.jsonandbible_term_registry.json, incrementing the version number, before any Phase 2 segment translation begins. - Load the §4 fencing rules as standing validation checks alongside the existing baseline forbidden-substitution list — several (आत्मा-root, सेवा, शुद्धिकरण/पवित्रीकरण) are process risks likely to recur across many documents, not isolated verse-level issues.
- Treat the §6 ranked list as the priority order for human theologian review time allocation: items 1–8 should never be cleared by native-speaker review alone.
- The core passage (Acts 2:1-41) concentrates an unusually high proportion of this curriculum’s Critical-risk ambiguities (items 3, 5, 6, 7 in §6); Phase 2 batch scheduling should route this passage to the most experienced reviewer pairing available.
- Revisit the §2 “Ascension” coinage (प्रभुक ऊर्ध्वगमन) with a theologian before it is added to translation memory as a Table B entry; it is proposed here but not yet ratified.
See analysis/08_core_glossary.md for the full term-by-term risk register this analysis extends, and the baseline translation_memory.json/bible_term_registry.json for terms carried forward unchanged from Romans.