Quick Reference

This page gathers the project’s key reference material in one place: a glossary of terms, the capitalisation card, an inventory of all prompts, and practical notes for setting up and running the process yourself.

Terminology

Term Definition
Anarthrous A Greek noun used without the definite article. In this project, anarthrous θεός is rendered lowercase “god” unless it clearly resumes an articular reference to the one God.
Articular A Greek noun used with the definite article (ὁ, ἡ, τό). Articular ὁ θεός is regularly translated “God” (capital‑G) as a reference to the one God of Israel.
Catchword chain A series of passages linked by the repetition of the same Greek root or phrase. The translation preserves an identical English gloss for each occurrence.
Conciliar crux A biblical passage that later ecumenical councils used to support specific doctrinal formulations. The project translates such passages on their own pre‑70 CE terms and documents the exegetical reasoning.
Divine passive A passive verb with God as the implied agent (e.g., “he was raised”). The English preserves the passive voice rather than making Jesus the independent subject.
Foreordination (ideal pre‑existence) The concept that something or someone exists “before the foundation of the world” in God’s eternal plan and purpose, without necessarily implying personal, conscious existence before birth.
Gezerah Shavah A Jewish interpretive principle linking two passages by a shared word or phrase, on the assumption that the same word carries the same meaning in both contexts.
Hybrid (Hybrid Interlinear) The Greek:English paired interlinear produced by the first prompt. Every Greek word receives exactly one English gloss; the output is unpunctuated and organised by pericope.
Inaugurated eschatology The two‑ages framework in which the age to come has broken into the present through the Messiah, yet the present age continues until its final consummation.
Inclusio A literary structure in which a passage or book begins and ends with the same word, phrase, or theme, forming a frame around the intervening material.
Pericope A natural unit of text, roughly equivalent to a paragraph or a self‑contained episode. The translation and commentary are organised around pericope boundaries.
Qal Vahomer A Jewish interpretive principle arguing from the lesser to the greater: “If something is true in a minor situation, how much more in a major one.”
Shaliah (agency principle) The Jewish legal concept that an authorised representative bears the sender’s name and authority, acting on their behalf while remaining a distinct person.
Shema The foundational confession of Israel from Deuteronomy 6:4: “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one.” This project treats the Shema as the non‑negotiable baseline for all interpretation.
Vocative The grammatical case used for direct address. In this project, the vocative κύριε is rendered “sir” when the speaker has not yet recognised Jesus as lord in a confessional sense.
YAML A human‑readable structured data format used throughout the project to record translation decisions, lexical choices, textual notes, and thematic trajectories. It acts as persistent, cumulative memory across batches.

Capitalisation card

The capitalisation convention applies without exception across all translations, commentaries, and analyses.

Referent Capitalisation
The one God of Israel (the Father) God, Father, Almighty, Most High, Lord God; and He, Him, His, Me, My, You
Jesus (titles and pronouns) lowercase – lord, son of God, son of the man, saviour, lamb, word, king, the name, christ; he, him, who
The spirit lowercase – spirit, holy spirit, paraclete; neuter pronoun it
Anarthrous θεός god (lowercase)
Proper names (Jesus, Peter, Galilee, Moses, Isaiah) Capitalised
Christ, Messiah (referring to the anointed one) Capitalised
Adversary (rendering σατανᾶς as a title) Capitalised
All other common nouns (law, temple, glory, kingdom, resurrection) lowercase

Why this capitalisation? The capitalisation is not a theological statement about Jesus’ nature. It functions like the Hebrew Scriptures’ distinctive treatment of the divine name YHWH: it reserves a unique visual marker for the one God. When a reader sees a capital‑G “God” or “He,” the referent is the Father. A lowercased “lord” or “spirit” simply signals that the referent is not the one God – without implying anything further about what kind of referent it is.

Prompt inventory

All prompts operate under the Handbook and inherit its capitalisation map, hermeneutical rules, lexical defaults, and memory conventions.

# Prompt Purpose Inputs Outputs Web page
1 OGNT to Hybrid Produce a strict Greek–English interlinear with analysis notes and a decision log OGNT Greek text, Handbook [Book]_Hybrid.md, [Book]_Master_YAML.yaml Hybrid Interlinear
2 Concept‑Language Inventory Build a cross‑book catalogue of key vocabulary, glosses, and conceptual categories All Hybrid files and Perfected Master YAMLs Concept_Language_Inventory.yaml Concept‑Language Inventory
3 Hybrid to English Convert the Hybrid into fluent, punctuated English while preserving all guardrails Hybrid file, Master YAML, Book Profile, Preferred Terms [Book]_English.md, Synthetical YAML, Exegetical Dataset English Translation
4 Exegesis Generate a full pericope‑by‑pericope commentary with pastoral and technical sections English translation, Master YAML, Exegetical Dataset [Book]_Commentary.md, Exegesis YAML Commentary
5 Annotated Hybrid Produce a reader‑facing interlinear edition with explanatory tables for significant gloss choices Hybrid file, Master YAML [Book]_Annotated_Hybrid.md Annotated Hybrid
6 Cross‑Book Analysis Compare a group of related books across multiple thematic modules English translations, Master YAMLs, Exegesis YAMLs, CLI [Group]_CrossBook_Analysis.md, [Group]_CrossBook_YAML.yaml Cross‑Book Analysis
7 Meta‑Analysis Synthesise all cross‑book group analyses into a unified whole‑Testament portrait All cross‑book analysis logs, CLI Meta_Analysis.md, Meta_Analysis_YAML.yaml Meta‑Analysis & Summary
flowchart LR A["Prompt 1
OGNT → Hybrid"] --> A1["Hybrid + Master YAML"] A1 --> B["Prompt 2
Concept-Language Inventory"] B --> B1["Concept-Language Inventory"] B1 --> C["Prompt 3
Hybrid → English"] C --> C1["Clean English + Exegetical Dataset"] C1 --> D["Prompt 4
Exegesis"] D --> D1["Commentary + Exegesis YAML"] D1 --> F["Prompt 6
Cross-Book Analysis"] F --> F1["Cross-Book Logs"] F1 --> G["Prompt 7
Meta-Analysis"] G --> G1["Final Synthesis"] A1 -.-> H["Prompt 5
Annotated Hybrid"] H --> H1["Annotated Hybrid"]

Practical setup notes

These notes are for the scholar or advanced student who wishes to replicate the pipeline.

Prerequisites

  • A large‑context AI language model capable of processing at least 80,000 tokens per turn, with strong instruction‑following ability.
  • The Open Greek New Testament (OGNT) text files, one per book.
  • The Handbook, the seven prompt files, the Book Profiles, and the Preferred Terms files.
  • A plain‑text editor for occasional manual tidying of output files.

Directory structure

flowchart TB Proj["project/"] Proj --> P["prompts/"] Proj --> R["reference/"] Proj --> O["ognt/"] Proj --> Out["output/"] Out --> H["hybrid/"] Out --> I["inventory/"] Out --> E["english/"] Out --> C["commentary/"] Out --> A["annotated/"] Out --> X["crossbook/"] Out --> M["metaanalysis/"]

Step‑by‑step execution

  1. Hybrid Translation (all books). For each book, start a new conversation with the OGNT‑to‑Hybrid prompt, the Handbook, and the book’s OGNT file. Type continue for each chapter; type reconcile book at the end. Tidy the output and save the Hybrid and Master YAML.
  2. Concept‑Language Inventory. Run the Inventory prompt with all Hybrid files and Master YAMLs. Re‑run after each book to merge new data.
  3. English Translation (all books). For each book, run the Hybrid‑to‑English prompt with the appropriate files. Type continue for each batch; the pipeline will transition through reconciliation and output the Clean English Translation and Exegetical Dataset.
  4. Commentary (all books). Run the Exegesis prompt with the Clean English translation, Master YAML, and Exegetical Dataset. Type continue for each chapter; the pipeline will transition through reconciliation and output the Clean Commentary.
  5. Annotated Hybrid (all books, parallel). Run the Annotated Hybrid prompt with the final Hybrid and Master YAML. Type continue for each batch.
  6. Cross‑Book Analyses (by group). For each natural group, run the Cross‑Book Analysis prompt with the CLI and the relevant files for every book in that group.
  7. Meta‑Analysis. Run the Meta‑Analysis prompt with the CLI and all completed cross‑book logs.

Notes on the manual steps

  • Tidying up the Hybrid files usually involves removing accidental line‑breaks within pericope strings, ensuring the [Pericope: Verses X‑Y] headers and analysis blocks are intact, and deleting any extraneous AI messages.
  • The closed set rule (used in the Cross‑Book and Meta‑Analysis stages) is enforced by the prompts themselves: only the specified files should be attached to each conversation. Attaching an unrelated book would violate the rule.
  • State management is handled automatically by the AI reading its own previous output within the continuous chat. Do not start a new conversation mid‑book; the incremental YAML log lives in the chat history.
  • Web conversion. If you plan to publish this as a website, MkDocs Material or Astro Starlight both support Mermaid diagrams natively or through a plugin, along with search, sidebar navigation, collapsible sections, and print/PDF export.

Suggested reading order, (and >where< you are): begin at the Home page, then follow the chapters in order: Understanding the Approach → Hybrid Interlinear → Concept‑Language Inventory → English Translation → Commentary → Annotated Hybrid & Cross‑Book Analysis → Meta‑Analysis & Summary → >Quick Reference<.