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# Methodology
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## Purpose
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This project develops a durable, auditable argument corpus.
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## Principles
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### 1. No survey-language shortcuts
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Avoid formulations like:
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- "what Jews believed"
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- "if you asked an early first-century Jew"
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Unless carefully narrowed and sourced.
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### 2. Distinguish categories
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Do not collapse:
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- canon
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- authority
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- interpretive authority
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- rhetorical borrowing
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- conceptual overlap
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- direct quotation
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- framework-level dependence
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### 3. Preserve claim granularity
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Every important argument should have:
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- a claim ID
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- a stable formulation
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- mapped evidence
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- reuse targets
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### 4. Avoid premature overclaiming
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Where evidence is partial, say:
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- "suggests"
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- "participates in"
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- "preserves"
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- "may indicate"
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Reserve stronger claims for well-supported cases.
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### 5. Build toward stronger conclusions gradually
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The series should move:
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- from method
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- to textual environment
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- to case studies
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- to authority questions
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- to interpretive necessity
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### 6. Separate tool from research
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Tooling may assist this project, but the research corpus remains independent. |