The map of readings
Targum renders a text; Sugya maps the debate over it. For each passage below, every scholarly and traditional reading is a sourced entry, the disputes between them are made explicit, and cross-tradition resonances appear only where a real comparative scholar has noted them. The aim is to unify the framework, never the conclusions: the disagreement is preserved and made navigable.
- new testament John 1:1–3 -- the Logos (the Prologue) 12 positions · 5 contentions verified
- Jewish mysticism The Four Who Entered the Pardes 7 positions · 3 contentions verified
- Jewish mysticism Sefer Yetzirah 1:1-2 -- the thirty-two paths and the ten sefirot 8 positions · 4 contentions verified
- islamic mysticism The Hidden Treasure -- kuntu kanzan makhfiyyan 7 positions · 4 contentions verified
- islamic mysticism al-Insan al-Kamil -- the Perfect Human (al-Jili) 2 positions · 1 contention verified
- lurianic kabbalah The Tzimtzum -- is the divine contraction literal or figurative? 6 positions · 3 contentions verified
- islamic theology The divine attributes (sifat) -- real entities in the essence, or identical with it? 4 positions · 3 contentions verified
- islamic mysticism Bayazid's ecstatic utterances (shaṭḥiyāt) -- a record of real experience, or a constructed tradition? 3 positions · 1 contention verified
- jewish philosophy Creation or eternity in the Guide -- did the world begin, and can reason decide? 3 positions · 1 contention verified
- islamic philosophy The eternity of the world -- does the cosmos emanate eternally from God, or was it created in time? 3 positions · 1 contention verified
- islamic theology Qadar -- do humans originate their own acts, or does God decree them? 3 positions · 1 contention verified
- christian philosophy Creatio ex nihilo or emanation -- did God make the world from nothing, or does all proceed from God? 3 positions · 1 contention verified
- jewish philosophy Free will and foreknowledge -- is the will free, and if God knows all, how? 3 positions · 1 contention verified
- islamic philosophy Reason and the Law in Islam -- does philosophy harmonize with revelation, serve under it, or corrupt it? 3 positions · 1 contention verified
- christian patristic Grace and free will -- can the unaided will choose the good, or must grace free it first? 3 positions · 1 contention verified
- jewish philosophy Reason and Torah -- does philosophy illumine the faith, corrupt it, or miss it entirely? 3 positions · 1 contention verified
- christian philosophy Athens and Jerusalem -- is reason the enemy of faith, its servant, or its partner? 3 positions · 1 contention verified
- jewish rabbinic The Oven of Akhnai -- does a heavenly voice decide the law, or the majority of its interpreters? 4 positions · 2 contentions verified
- new testament Paul's third heaven (2 Cor 12) -- a real ascent, or a rhetorical construction? 3 positions · 1 contention verified
- christian patristic Montanism (the New Prophecy) -- does the living Spirit speak now, or has authority passed to the apostolic office? 3 positions · 1 contention verified
- Akbarian Sufism Fusus al-Hikam I (Bezel of Adam) -- the Names beyond enumeration 3 positions · 1 contention 0/3 verified
- Christian apophatic Mystical Theology I.1 -- the opening prayer 2 positions · 1 contention 0/2 verified
- Jewish mysticism Who May Descend: the qualification clause of Heikhalot Rabbati 21 4 positions · 2 contentions 0/4 verified
- Jewish mysticism The Servant Called by His Master's Name: ANAFI'EL and the divine name in Heikhalot Rabbati 23 4 positions · 3 contentions 0/4 verified
- gnostic tradition Pagan Core or Christian Composition: what kind of document the Naassene report preserves 4 positions · 3 contentions 0/4 verified