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Evidence audit — Lunn four-part rhetorical structure

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INTERPRETATION_AUDITAUDIT_INT_LUK_15_LUNN_FOUR_PART_STRUCTURE
Interpretation Dependency Profile

Text Rooted With Literary Model

Premises mapped: 4 · Development threads: 0

Curated chronology: 2009 · No Earlier Curated Witness

Lunn is the first currently curated witness for this exact four-part formulation. The Archive has not established when comparable structures were first proposed historically. This is not a historical-origin claim.

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Chronology boundary: “Earliest in the curated Codex corpus” is not a claim of historical origin. Missing earlier records cannot be treated as evidence that a premise did not exist.
Interpretive Evidence Audit

Reasonable Interpretation · Curated Pass With Limits

Audited target: Nicholas Lunn — four-part rhetorical reading of Luke 15

Inference depth: Moderate

Original-meaning weight: Plausible Literary Model

Support review

Textual: {"rating":"MODERATE","notes":["Luke 15 contains repeated lost/found/rejoicing language across sheep, coin, and the younger son.","The elder-son episode is structurally integral to the two-son narrative but is not explicitly called a fourth parable."]}

Literary: {"rating":"MODERATE_TO_HIGH","notes":["Sheep/coin and the two sons create real paired material suitable for rhetorical comparison.","The proposed “lost at home” relationship for coin/elder son is interpretive rather than explicit."]}

Historical Context: {"rating":"NOT_REQUIRED","notes":["The proposal is primarily literary/rhetorical rather than a historical reconstruction."]}

Dependencies

Type: LITERARY_MODEL

Note: The four-part organization and paired correspondences are a scholarly rhetorical model, not a narrator-supplied outline.

Inferential steps

Observe repeated lost/found/rejoicing language.
Treat vv.4–10 and vv.11–32 as two major movements.
Subdivide each movement into two units and compare outwardly lost versus “at home” material.

Counterevidence review

The common three-parable segmentation remains viable.
The elder son is never explicitly described with the verb/adjective “lost.”

Strongest competing case

Luke 15 can be read as three parables joined by a common theme without adopting Lunn’s four-part correspondence.

Audit conclusion

The proposal is sufficiently grounded for scholarly display, but it should remain a plausible literary model rather than a settled architecture.

What this audit does not establish

The audit does not establish a chiasm.
It does not establish one-to-one correspondence between every detail of the four units.

What this does not establish

The audit does not establish a chiasm.
It does not establish one-to-one correspondence between every detail of the four units.
Release Introduced
v55
Status
CURATED_PUBLIC