Gates and statuses
Every chapter passes through six gates before it is published here. Each gate is a check that can fail, and a failure is fixed and the check run again; the rewritten report, not the first draft, is what counts.
The six gates
- The text is well formed. The markup compiles; every note has a marker in the text and every marker has a note; every ruling a note cites exists.
- The concordance holds. Every controlled word is looked up everywhere it occurs. A word that is translated differently from its home gloss must carry a note; two different Hebrew or Greek words may not share one English word unless the lexicon declares the pair; a word the author repeats on purpose stays the same English through the repetition.
- The divine names are where the source has them. Every Tetragrammaton in the Hebrew is printed as Adonai in small capitals; every written Adonai is printed as Adonai; Elohim is capitalized or not by the rule for agreement.
- Nothing is missing. The verse count equals the source's; every verse has its Reader's edition; the section marks of the codex are kept.
- The blind read. A second reader, who has not seen the translator's notes, checks the chapter against the source for five things: every negation carried and none added; every connective accounted for; the written and the read forms of the Hebrew followed; pluses and minuses between the Hebrew and the Greek; and the Reader's edition against the Translation. It records the clean verses as well as the findings. No program replaces this gate.
- The Reader's edition passes its own checks. No word of the Translation's that the Reader's edition is required to soften is left behind, the divine names are right, and the chapter reads at an eighth-grade level.
The four statuses
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| authored | Written in the house format; not yet compiled. Not shown here. |
| draft | Compiled, and the first four gates pass. Not shown here. |
| reviewed | All six gates pass and every flag is resolved or logged. This is the bar for publication. |
| final | The chapter has survived the concordance pass that follows a whole book, with no changed gloss outstanding. |
The progress page shows every chapter's state. Chapters that are not yet reviewed appear there only as a square; their text is not published until it has passed.
A reader's own reading is welcome and is not a gate. If you find something wrong, the footer of every page has a link for saying so.