diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev11.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev11.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a8f0e32e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev11.json @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "vv 44-45's 'be holy because I am holy' echoes at 1 Pet 1:16 as the rule for the church. Mk 7:19's 'thus he declared all foods clean' marks the canonical pivot — these laws are read across Scripture as fulfilled.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "Food laws separate Israel from the nations. The covenant logic of vv 44-45 ties dietary practice to the redemptive arc — a holy people set apart so the salvation promise can travel through them to the world.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "Clean/unclean categories foreshadow a deeper sorting. Acts 10:9-16 reverses the pattern when the sheet descends to Peter: the type-system gives way as he sees that no food, and no people, are unclean.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "calvin", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev12.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev12.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8e70b5ba --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev12.json @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "vv 6-8's offering — a lamb, or two doves for the poor — is what Mary brings at Lk 2:22-24. Christ's mother performs the rite for Christ. The poverty offering puts the Messiah's family inside this chapter's law.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "v 3's eighth-day circumcision is fulfilled at Lk 2:21, the verse before purification at Lk 2:22-24. The canon binds this procedural chapter to the infancy narrative — echoes across Scripture into the gospel.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev13.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev13.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cf4ba1e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev13.json @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "grammatical", + "guidance": "vv 2-3's repeated 'the priest shall examine' — the imperative shapes the chapter as diagnostic protocol. The Hebrew ra'ah (look at, inspect) governs the rhythm. Priestly sight is given the authority to declare clean.", + "panel_filter": [ + "heb", + "milgrom", + "hebtext", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "heb", + "hebtext", + "milgrom", + "calvin" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "The chapter is a procedural inclusio of inspection cycles — vv 4-8 (skin), 18-23 (boil), 24-28 (burn), 29-37 (head), 47-58 (cloth). Repetition of seven-day quarantine builds a structure of patient discernment.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "calvin", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev14.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev14.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6e6cb69e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev14.json @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "vv 4-7's two birds — one killed, one released alive over the field — form a clean type-pair. The pattern prefigures resurrection: death and life paired, the living bird carrying cleansed status away from camp.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "calvin", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "v 7's blood-sprinkled-then-released bird points to Jesus. The cleansed leper restored to camp (vv 8-9) is what Christ healed in Mk 1:40-45 was sent to show himself to the priest, fulfilling this very rite.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "vv 33-53's house-mildew protocol mirrors the skin protocol of ch 13. The canonical pattern repeats — Israel, body, house, land are all subject to the same logic of contagion and cleansing throughout Scripture.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev15.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev15.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4d58d9d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev15.json @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "vv 25-30's woman-with-discharge protocol is reversed at Mk 5:25-34. The woman with the issue of blood touches Jesus and the contagion runs the opposite direction — uncleanness flows out, healing flows in.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "v 31's 'keep the Israelites separate from things that defile' frames discharge laws as covenant boundary-keeping. The redemption of Israel includes the body and the dwelling — promise of presence requires purity.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev16.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev16.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9874af2b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev16.json @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "grammatical", + "guidance": "Hebrew kaphar (cover, atone) is the chapter's master verb, threaded across v 6, 11, 16, 17, 18, 20, 24, 27, 30, 32, 33, 34. The noun kapporet (mercy seat, vv 13-15) is built from the same root. Word and place share a stem.", + "panel_filter": [ + "heb", + "milgrom", + "hebtext", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "heb", + "hebtext", + "milgrom", + "calvin" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "typological", + "guidance": "vv 7-10's two goats form a paired type — one slain, one released. Together they prefigure what one figure accomplishes: death endured and guilt removed. The pattern anticipates Christ in Heb 9:6-14's fulfillment.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "calvin", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "v 2's once-a-year entry behind the veil is what Jesus does once-for-all. The Aaronic restriction (only him, only this day, only with blood) frames Heb 9:11-12 — Christ entered the heavenly holy place by his own blood.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "The chapter's vocabulary — kaphar, kapporet, blood, the curtain — is the canonical lexicon Hebrews 9-10 adopts whole. Heb argues this chapter verse by verse rather than merely echo it. Fulfillment is read across Scripture.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "devotional", + "guidance": "v 29's 'deny yourselves' annual command (cf. v 31's sabbath of complete rest) shapes Israel's calendar around repentance. Today's worshipper trusts the same atonement, not by self-denial but by faith in the once-offered cross.", + "panel_filter": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "rec", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "vv 29-34's perpetual statute frames atonement as the spine of Israel's covenant year. The annual rhythm of repeated covering is the redemptive arc compressed into one day, repeated until the day Christ ends repetition.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev17.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev17.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..94001321 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev17.json @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "christocentric", + "guidance": "v 11's 'the life of a creature is in the blood... it is the blood that makes atonement' is the chapter's centre. Heb 9:22 cites this verse directly. Christ's blood is what Lev 17:11 anticipates — gospel grounded here.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "v 11's life-blood logic threads across Scripture: from this verse to Heb 9:22 to Mt 26:28's 'this is my blood of the covenant'. The canon stitches these texts together as one argument. The thread is unbroken from altar to cross.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "vv 1-9 (central altar, six speech formulas) and vv 10-16 (blood prohibition, repetition of 'anyone... who eats blood') form a doublet structure. The chapter is built on parallelism: place of slaughter, treatment of blood.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "calvin", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "vv 3-7's prohibition against field-slaughter — bring every offering to the tent — gathers Israel's worship to one centre. The covenant logic anticipates a single sacrifice at one altar, the redemptive arc's final shape.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev18.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev18.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..673cc646 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev18.json @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "grammatical", + "guidance": "vv 6-18's repeated 'do not have sexual relations with...' (Hebrew lo tegalleh ervah, 'do not uncover the nakedness of') forms a litany of imperatives. The Hebrew formula governs the chapter — relations named by negation.", + "panel_filter": [ + "heb", + "milgrom", + "hebtext", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "heb", + "hebtext", + "milgrom", + "calvin" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "v 26's command for the native and the sojourner alike echoes the equality logic running across Scripture from Lev 19:34 to Eph 2:11-22. Holiness applies inside Israel and to those who join her — a canon-wide thread.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "vv 24-28's land-vomits-out motif (the same image at v 25, v 28) reframes sexual sin as covenant pollution. The promise of the land is contingent on Israel's holiness — exile threatens the redemptive arc itself.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev19.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev19.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f27f3122 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev19.json @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "vv 2 and 37 form an inclusio — 'be holy' opens, 'I am the LORD' closes. The chapter's structure brackets a sprawl of commands inside a single envelope of identity. The frame holds together what looks miscellaneous.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "calvin", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "mission", + "guidance": "vv 33-34's 'love the foreigner as yourself' extends the love-command to the outsider. The verse turns Israel's holiness outward toward the nations among them — a mission posture written into community life, not added later.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "mac", + "calvin", + "thread" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "cross", + "thread", + "calvin" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "devotional", + "guidance": "vv 9-10's gleaning command — leave the corners, leave the gleanings — shapes the worshipper's posture toward the poor and the foreigner. To obey is to release the harvest's edge as worship of the God who provides.", + "panel_filter": [ + "mac", + "calvin", + "rec", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "mac", + "rec", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "v 18's love-of-neighbour command echoes across the canon: cited at Mt 22:39, Mk 12:31, Lk 10:27, Rom 13:9, Gal 5:14, Jas 2:8. Christ and Paul and James all read this single verse as the law's summary thread.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "vv 35-36's honest weights — the same ephah, the same hin — bind covenant ethics to the marketplace. The redemption of Israel includes commerce. Holiness is not cordoned off from labour; it pervades the workday.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +} diff --git a/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev20.json b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev20.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..235575c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/hermeneutic_lenses/chapters/lev20.json @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +{ + "lenses": [ + { + "lens_id": "literary", + "guidance": "vv 9-21's penalty list (death, cut off, childlessness) escalates by consequence. vv 22-26 close as exhortation, framing the list inside a covenant-and-land argument. The structure moves from case to call across the chapter.", + "panel_filter": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "calvin", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "lit", + "milgrom", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "canonical", + "guidance": "v 7's 'consecrate yourselves and be holy' echoes Lev 11:44 and Lev 19:2, threading the same imperative across the holiness code. The canonical refrain holds: identity precedes obedience throughout Scripture.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "themes" + ] + }, + { + "lens_id": "redemptive", + "guidance": "vv 22-23's land-vomits-you-out warning (echoing Lev 18:25, 28) ties penalty to covenant promise. Israel's tenure depends on holiness — the redemptive arc bends here toward exile if the call is refused.", + "panel_filter": [ + "cross", + "thread", + "themes", + "calvin" + ], + "panel_order": [ + "thread", + "cross", + "calvin", + "themes" + ] + } + ] +}