enoch-research/CLAIMS_LEDGER.yaml

claims:
  - id: ENOCH-METH-001
    title: Ancient texts assume missing frameworks
    claim: >
      Ancient texts often assume conceptual frameworks and prior knowledge
      that later readers do not automatically possess.
    category: methodology
    strength: high
    status: active
    implications:
      - Undermines naive self-contained reading assumptions.
      - Opens the case for recovering lost interpretive frameworks.

  - id: ENOCH-METH-002
    title: Scripture does not always restate its own background
    claim: >
      Biblical texts frequently invoke ideas, events, and agents without
      restating all background information in the immediate passage.
    category: methodology
    strength: high
    status: active
    implications:
      - Supports framework recovery.
      - Counters simplistic prooftext approaches.

  - id: ENOCH-METH-003
    title: First-century Jewish belief cannot be modeled by survey language
    claim: >
      Statements such as 'if you asked an early first-century Jew' create a false
      representative model that the evidence does not justify.
    category: methodology
    strength: high
    status: active
    implications:
      - Counters flattening of Second Temple diversity.
      - Restrains overgeneralized claims about Jewish attitudes toward Enoch.

  - id: ENOCH-AUTH-001
    title: Interpretive authority is distinct from canonical status
    claim: >
      A text may carry interpretive authority or preserved explanatory force
      without collapsing into the later category of canon.
    category: authority
    strength: high
    status: active
    implications:
      - Prevents false canon-or-nothing binaries.
      - Makes space for Enoch as a necessary witness.

  - id: ENOCH-AUTH-002
    title: Canonicity is not the only relevant interpretive category
    claim: >
      The question of whether a text is canonical does not exhaust the question
      of whether it is relevant, explanatory, or authoritative in use.
    category: authority
    strength: high
    status: active
    implications:
      - Supports the distinction between formal canon and operative use.

  - id: ENOCH-AUTH-003
    title: Dismissing Enoch as having no authority is incoherent
    claim: >
      If inspired writers use Enochic material to illuminate major theological
      realities, then treating Enoch as having no meaningful authority at all
      becomes incoherent.
    category: authority
    strength: medium
    status: active
    implications:
      - Pressures minimalist dismissals of Enoch.
      - Grounds the authority discussion in inspired usage.

  - id: ENOCH-EPIST-001
    title: Extraordinary-claims language is not neutral
    claim: >
      The slogan 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' is not
      methodologically neutral unless one first justifies what counts as
      extraordinary and by which worldview.
    category: epistemology
    strength: high
    status: active
    implications:
      - Exposes hidden priors.
      - Prevents premature dismissal of supernatural claims.

  - id: ENOCH-EPIST-002
    title: Humean suspicion should not be smuggled into biblical interpretation
    claim: >
      Treating Enoch as inherently suspect because it contains intense
      supernatural content often imports a contested Humean framework into a
      biblical ontology that is not Humean.
    category: epistemology
    strength: medium
    status: active
    implications:
      - Connects miracle skepticism to interpretive bias.
      - Reframes Enoch within the world Scripture already assumes.

  - id: ENOCH-DSS-001
    title: The DSS preserve a library, not a finalized later canon
    claim: >
      The Dead Sea Scrolls should first be approached as a preserved library
      rather than as a formal later-style canon list.
    category: dss
    strength: high
    status: active
    implications:
      - Cautions against anachronistic canon language.
      - Opens space for proximity and clustering analysis.

  - id: ENOCH-DSS-002
    title: Enoch stands within a textual network at Qumran
    claim: >
      The presence of Enoch alongside works such as Tobit and Jubilees suggests
      that Enoch belonged to a wider preserved textual environment rather than
      existing as an isolated anomaly.
    category: dss
    strength: medium
    status: active
    implications:
      - Supports the notion of an Enochic thread or matrix.
      - Shifts discussion from isolated prooftext to textual ecology.

  - id: ENOCH-DSS-003
    title: Tobit and related materials may participate in an Enochic matrix
    claim: >
      Other Qumran-preserved works and commentarial materials should be examined
      as possible participants in an Enochic textual and theological matrix
      rather than treated in isolation.
    category: dss
    strength: exploratory
    status: active
    implications:
      - Expands the research program beyond Jude alone.
      - Needs careful source-by-source demonstration.

  - id: ENOCH-REL-001
    title: Not all extra-biblical references are equal
    claim: >
      Paul’s Greek poets are rhetorical borrowings, the Baal Cycle is
      comparative background, but 1 Enoch functions as an internal Jewish
      textual witness used in a more framework-bearing way.
    category: comparative
    strength: high
    status: active
    implications:
      - Counters flattening arguments.
      - Differentiates Enoch from weaker analogies.

  - id: ENOCH-REL-002
    title: Enoch is closer to NT interpretive concerns than the Baal Cycle
    claim: >
      Enoch is not merely a distant external parallel; it is much closer to the
      New Testament’s textual, theological, and apocalyptic world than the
      Baal Cycle or Greek poetic citations.
    category: comparative
    strength: high
    status: active
    implications:
      - Sharpens the category distinction.
      - Supports stronger claims about interpretive necessity.

  - id: ENOCH-NT-001
    title: Jude uses Enoch judicially and argumentatively
    claim: >
      Jude’s use of Enoch is not merely ornamental; it functions as part of his
      argument about judgment and rebellion.
    category: new_testament
    strength: high
    status: active
    implications:
      - Strengthens claims about Enoch’s operative role.
      - Supports the move from relevance to explanatory function.

  - id: ENOCH-FRAME-001
    title: Enoch preserves a framework Scripture assumes
    claim: >
      In several key passages, Enoch preserves a developed framework involving
      heavenly rebellion, judgment, and cosmic corruption that helps explain
      what Scripture is doing.
    category: framework
    strength: medium
    status: active
    implications:
      - Core bridge toward interpretive necessity.

  - id: ENOCH-FRAME-002
    title: The Enoch argument does not rest on Jude alone
    claim: >
      The case for Enoch depends not only on Jude’s explicit quotation but on a
      broader network of themes, preserved traditions, and related texts.
    category: framework
    strength: medium
    status: active
    implications:
      - Prevents overdependence on one proof point.

  - id: ENOCH-LOSS-001
    title: Losing the Enochic framework flattens reading
    claim: >
      When the Enochic framework is ignored, biblical passages are often reduced
      to generic moralism or vague symbolism.
    category: consequences
    strength: medium
    status: active
    implications:
      - Shows the cost of omission.

  - id: ENOCH-LOSS-002
    title: Removing the framework obscures cosmic-judicial logic
    claim: >
      Without the Enochic framework, readers often lose the judicial and cosmic
      logic behind rebellion, imprisonment, and eschatological judgment.
    category: consequences
    strength: medium
    status: active
    implications:
      - Helps show explanatory necessity.

  - id: ENOCH-FINAL-001
    title: Enoch is interpretively necessary in some passages
    claim: >
      In some passages, Scripture is under-read, distorted, or partially obscured
      when Enoch is ignored.
    category: conclusion
    strength: thesis
    status: active
    implications:
      - Final earned conclusion of the series.
  - id: GEO-MT-ZION-NAVEL-001
    slug: mt_zion_navel_of_earth
    title: Mount Zion identified as the navel/center of the earth
    category: geography
    status: extracted
    confidence: medium
    type: interpretive_claim
    depends_on:
      - Enoch "middle of the earth" language
      - Ezekiel 38:12 navel language
      - video-series interpretive linkage
    dossier: claims/geography/mt_zion_navel_of_earth/