Executive Summary — Jeremiah Language Package (Portuguese)

Why it matters

Jeremiah is the Old Testament’s most theologically loaded book for a Portuguese-speaking, predominantly Brazilian audience. Its core passage (31:31-34) — the New Covenant — is quoted verbatim in Hebrews 8 and 10 and anchors this curriculum’s entire doctrinal case. But Jeremiah’s vocabulary of covenant, forgiveness, idolatry, prophecy, and destiny collides more directly and more often with mainstream Brazilian Spiritist (Kardecist) and Afro-Brazilian (Candomblé/Umbanda) religious vocabulary than any other book yet processed in this pipeline — and it introduces one term-collision (“rainha dos céus” / Queen of Heaven vs. the Marian devotional title “Rainha dos Céus”) with no precedent in the baseline Romans package.

Key findings

• 21 of 31 tracked doctrines (5 Critical + 16 High) require mandatory human theologian review at every occurrence, per doctrine_risk_registry.json — matching or exceeding the density of Critical/High doctrine risk in the Romans baseline.
• 34 of 63 tracked terms (11 Critical + 23 High) in bible_term_registry.json require the same theologian-level scrutiny — concentrated in chapters 2-3, 7, 23, 29, 31, 33, and 44.
• The core passage itself (Jeremiah 31:31-34) contains six independently Critical/High-risk clauses in a single four-verse unit: nova aliança, the Baal wordplay, coração/coração novo, conhecer o SENHOR, não se lembrar mais, and individual responsibility (31:29-30) — an unusually dense concentration even by this Language Package’s standards.
• Three risks are unique to this book and have no Romans-baseline precedent: the Marian-title collision (“rainha dos céus”), the karmic-ledger collision (“não se lembrar mais” vs. Kardecism’s doctrine that no deed is ever erased), and the prosperity-gospel decontextualization risk of Jeremiah 29:11, Brazil’s most-quoted, most-misapplied Bible verse.

Risks

• Critical: An unannotated “rainha dos céus” (Jer 7:18; 44:17-19,25) could be heard as a direct biblical condemnation of Catholic Marian devotion — neither the text’s historical claim nor an appropriate curriculum message. Mandatory historical-context note required at every occurrence.
• Critical: “Não se lembrar mais” (31:34), if softened to imply deferred or partial forgiveness, collapses this passage’s central point of contrast with Kardecism’s doctrine of a permanently retained karmic record — arguably the single sharpest doctrinal collision in the entire curriculum.
• High: “Coração” defaults to an emotional/sentimental register in popular Brazilian usage, risking a reduction of the New Covenant’s whole-person transformation (mind, will, affections) to mere feeling.
• High: Jeremiah 29:11, already Brazil’s most decontextualized Evangelical popular-culture verse, risks reinforcing an individualist, unconditional prosperity reading if translated or excerpted without its corporate, seventy-year, repentance-conditioned frame.
• High: The false-prophecy vocabulary (chs. 23, 27-29) sits in the most crowded semantic neighborhood in the Language Package, competing with Kardecist psicografia, Afro-Brazilian divinatory practice, and neo-Pentecostal “prophetic movement” usage simultaneously.

Opportunities

• Jeremiah’s own two-part prophetic-authenticity test (23:21-22, 32 — genuine divine sending; a message that produces repentance) gives this curriculum a concrete, text-native diagnostic tool for the False Prophets doctrine, stronger than lexical substitution alone.
• The historically fulfilled, datable “seventy years” prophecy (25:11-12; 29:10; confirmed 2 Chronicles 36:21, Daniel 9:2) anchors the Hope of Restoration doctrine in verifiable history, giving Brazilian audiences a concrete counter-example to both cyclical karmic frameworks and vague generic optimism.
• The Baal wordplay in 31:32 (YHWH reclaiming the very title “ba’al” from a rival god) is a rare case where a single annotated translator’s note unlocks an entire additional layer of covenant-adultery meaning invisible in a bare rendering — a high-value, low-cost teaching opportunity.

Recommended actions

1. Apply the Jeremiah-specific forbidden-substitution list and mandatory-footnote requirements (see 12_ai_translation_requirements.md) to every Phase 2 segment before approval, with zero exceptions for “rainha dos céus,” “não se lembrar mais,” and “nova aliança.”
2. Route all segments touching the six core-passage clauses (31:31-34) and the five other Critical-tier doctrines (Idolatry, Queen of Heaven, Righteous Branch, YHWH Tsidqenu) to human theologian review as a hard gate, not a recommendation.
3. Pair every teaching use of Jeremiah 29:11 with its restored corporate/conditional context (29:10, 13-14) as a non-negotiable curriculum requirement, not an optional footnote.
4. Maintain strict typographic and lexical separation between YHWH’s “SENHOR” (small caps, Old Testament covenant name) and Christ’s “Senhor” (kyrios, New Testament) across any curriculum materials that cross-reference both Jeremiah and Romans.

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Prepared as PRD Phase 1 Step 11. Counts reproduced from assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json (risk_summary) and computed from assets/bible_term_registry.json (Jeremiah-specific registry).