diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex31.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex31.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bfce3c85 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex31.json @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "Two paired sections: Bezalel's Spirit-gifting (vv 1-11) sets up tabernacle-craft, then the Sabbath sign (vv 12-17) frames the work with rest. v 18's tablets close the unit. The literary structure subordinates work to covenant-rest.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "sarna", + "alter", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "sarna", + "alter", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "Bezalel 'filled with the Spirit of God' (v 3) is the OT's first explicit Spirit-filling formula. The pattern anticipates Pentecost's craftsmen-of-the-gospel filled to build a different sanctuary — the church as living tabernacle.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "devotional", + "guidance": "vv 12-17 calls Sabbath 'a sign forever' (v 17) — the rhythm marks Israel as God's. The practical pattern: trust that the work continues without you. To rest in obedience here is to confess that Yahweh, not Israel, builds the tabernacle.", + "panel_filter": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "themes", + "rec" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "themes", + "rec" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex32.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex32.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a0f23fda --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex32.json @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "grammatical", + "guidance": "v 1's 'make us gods (elohim) who shall go before us' uses the same Hebrew elohim that names Yahweh. v 4's liturgical formula 'these are your gods, O Israel' copies covenant-naming language to crown a calf. Theology is reversed by syntax.", + "panel_filter": [ + "heb", + "sarna", + "alter", + "hebtext" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "heb", + "sarna", + "alter", + "hebtext" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "Three narrative movements: descent into apostasy below (vv 1-6), intercession above (vv 7-14), and judgment on return (vv 15-35). The structure mirrors a tragic descent-mediation-execution arc, with Moses moving up and down the mountain.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "v 32 — 'blot me out of your book' — Moses offers his own life as the price of forgiveness. The substitutionary pattern prefigures one greater Mediator who will not merely offer but actually be cut off for the people he loves.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "What Moses offered in v 32 — substitution unto being blotted out — Christ accomplished. He is cut off for transgressors so the names blotted from one book are written in the Lamb's. Mediation completed where Moses could only ask.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "v 14's relenting after intercession is covenant-mercy operating on the day the covenant should die. The promise made to Abraham (cited in Moses's plea, v 13) is older and stronger than Israel's worst breach of it.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "The calf episode echoes across Scripture as the paradigm idolatry warning — Deut 9:8-21 retells it, Neh 9:18 confesses it, Ps 106:19-23 sings it, Acts 7:39-43 indicts it, 1 Cor 10:7 warns the church off it.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex33.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex33.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e09f0058 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex33.json @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "grammatical", + "guidance": "v 11 reads panim el-panim — face to face. v 14's 'my Presence' is panai, my face. v 23's 'back parts' is achor. The Hebrew chapter is a sustained meditation on whose face goes with Israel and what Moses can literally see of it.", + "panel_filter": [ + "heb", + "sarna", + "alter", + "hebtext" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "heb", + "sarna", + "alter", + "hebtext" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "Three scenes built on a presence-motif: the presence-crisis (vv 1-6), Moses at the tent of meeting (vv 7-11), and the glory-request (vv 12-23). The repetition of 'presence' is the structural pivot of the chapter.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "Moses sees only Yahweh's 'back parts' (v 23) — partial sight, the shadow of theophany. John 1:18 says no one has seen God except the Son who has made him known; the Sinai shadow anticipates the Bethlehem disclosure.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "v 14 — 'My Presence will go with you' — is the seed of every Immanuel-promise. The presence Israel needs to survive the wilderness arrives in person in Jesus, named God-with-us. Sinai gives the shape; the manger gives the man.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "devotional", + "guidance": "vv 12-13 and 15-16 model intercession that won't take an evasive answer. Moses prays a holy refusal: 'if your presence does not go, do not send us up from here' (v 15). To pray like Moses is to want God more than the gift.", + "panel_filter": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "The face-of-God seeking begun here threads through Pss 27:8 ('your face, LORD, do I seek'), 42:2, and 63:2 to Mt 5:8's 'pure in heart shall see God' and 1 Jn 3:2's 'we shall see him as he is'.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex34.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex34.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ddce1f3e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex34.json @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "grammatical", + "guidance": "vv 6-7's chesed v'emet — covenant-loyalty and faithfulness — is paired Hebrew rhetoric, designed for liturgical reuse. The rhythm of attribute-pairs (gracious-merciful, slow-abundant, keeping-forgiving) reads like a creed-text.", + "panel_filter": [ + "heb", + "sarna", + "alter", + "hebtext" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "heb", + "sarna", + "alter", + "hebtext" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "The theophany formula (vv 6-7) interrupts the renewal narrative — bracketed by mountain-ascent (vv 1-4) and shining-face descent (vv 29-35). The Sinai-pattern is bookended; the formula is set apart by literary framing.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "vv 33-35 — Moses puts a veil on after speaking with Yahweh, off when speaking again. The veil-on/veil-off pattern is the type that 2 Cor 3 reads as removed for those in Christ. Glory by encounter prefigures glory by reflection.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "vv 6-7's chesed v'emet (covenant-love and faithfulness) finds full voice in John 1:14: 'full of grace and truth' translates the same Hebrew pair. The Yahweh of Sinai self-discloses as Jesus the Christ in Galilee.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "Covenant renewal (v 10) and second tablets (v 27) reveal the promise's design: it can survive Israel's worst breach. The redemptive arc is not waiting for a perfect partner; it is making one, by patient covenant-keeping after rupture.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "vv 6-7's attribute-formula echoes throughout Scripture — Num 14:18 in the spies' crisis, Neh 9:17 in post-exile confession, Pss 103:8 and 145:8 in the praise-canon. Israel learned to pray its theology back to God.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex35.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex35.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9f866205 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex35.json @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "The unit opens with Sabbath (vv 1-3), then the offering call (vv 4-29), then craftsmen named (vv 30-35). The literary order subordinates work to rest — Sabbath sets the structure before a beam is cut. Form preaches before a tool moves.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "vv 21-29 — 'everyone whose heart was stirred' brings to the offering. The willing-people note is a covenant ideal: redemption that is also welcomed. The arc bends toward a people whose obedience flows from desire, not duress.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "devotional", + "guidance": "v 21's 'stirred heart' and v 26's 'willing spirit' set the giving-pattern that endures today: not the size of the offering but the inclination of the heart. To respond like the spinners of v 26 is to give with joy.", + "panel_filter": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex36.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex36.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ccfb30f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex36.json @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "v 6's 'restrain the people from bringing' is the narrative mirror of ex32's 'they brought their gold to Aaron.' The structure inverts the calf-frenzy — same impulse, opposite altar. Generosity to Yahweh undoes the gold poured for an idol.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "devotional", + "guidance": "v 6's 'more than enough' gives a worship-model for today. To worship in giving is to risk overflowing the need — to trust that the work needs offerers more than it needs measured-out funds. Faithful generosity is its own response to grace.", + "panel_filter": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex37.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex37.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dd8b4b8b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex37.json @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "vv 6-9 — Bezalel makes the kapporet with two cherubim guarding above. The pattern of guarded access to atonement runs through the tabernacle; the torn-veil of Mt 27:51 announces the guard removed, the seat opened to all.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "The mercy seat of vv 6-9 is Hebrew kapporet; the LXX renders it hilasterion. Paul takes hilasterion and uses it of Christ in Rom 3:25 — the gold-cover-over-the-broken-law is the gospel-shape, and Christ Jesus is the substance.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "heb" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "heb" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "Five furniture pieces — ark, table, lampstand, incense altar, anointing oil — are crafted in narrative parallel. The 'he made' refrain (vv 1, 10, 17, 25, 29) marks each item's completion before moving to the next item.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex38.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex38.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0bdcb302 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex38.json @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "vv 1-7 build the bronze altar; v 8 builds the bronze laver. Both bronze, both at the courtyard threshold. The pattern is fixed: sacrifice precedes cleansing precedes approach to the holy. The order of grace, not of human achievement.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "vv 21-31's materials inventory functions as a narrative ledger — Bezalel's craft audited by name, by weight, by who-paid-what. The structure asserts that sacred construction can be counted, and ought to be.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex39.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex39.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f2257510 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex39.json @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "The refrain 'as the LORD commanded Moses' repeats across the chapter (vv 1, 5, 7, 21, 26, 29, 31, 32) — eight beats hammering one note. The repetition is the literary point: obedient pattern-keeping is itself a form of worship.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "Aaron's vesting (vv 1-31) anticipates Hebrews 4-10's vesting of the great High Priest. The breastpiece of vv 8-14 carries the twelve names — pattern: the priest carries his people before the Father in the Most Holy place.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "v 43 — 'Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it... and Moses blessed them.' The text echoes Gen 1:31's 'God saw everything... very good' — tabernacle-completion is narrated as a creation-act, with Moses voicing the divine refrain.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes", + "lit" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "lit", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex40.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex40.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7bd77586 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/ex40.json @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "The chapter's structure unfolds in three movements: erection-command (vv 1-15), execution (vv 16-33), and glory-arrival (vv 34-38). The sevenfold 'as the LORD commanded Moses' refrain bookends execution as obedient pattern-keeping.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "alter", + "sarna", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "v 34's glory-cloud filling the tabernacle prefigures the wind-and-fire filling at Pentecost and Rev 21:3's tabernacle of God-with-humanity. The pattern is escalating presence: tent, then temple, then person, then people, then city.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "thread" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "v 34's 'glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle' lands its incarnation in John 1:14: 'the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us' — eskenosen, the same root. The Sinai cloud finds a body in Jesus the Christ.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "heb" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "cross", + "calvin", + "mac", + "heb" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "Genesis ended with humans cast outside Eden's presence; Exodus ends with Yahweh moving into Israel's camp (v 34). The redemptive promise of Gen 17 and Ex 6 has covered ground: covenant-presence has crossed the threshold.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "vv 36-38's cloud-by-day, fire-by-night threads through Num 9:15-23 (wilderness guidance), 1 Kgs 8:10-11 (temple dedication), Ezek 10 and 43 (departure and return), to John 1:14 and Rev 21:3 — God-presence crossing the canon.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +}