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  "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000028",
  "slug": "wilderness",
  "url_path": "/types-symbols/wilderness/",
  "canonical_name": "Wilderness",
  "entry_classifications": [
    "MOTIF",
    "NARRATIVE_PATTERN_OR_TYPE_SCENE",
    "ORDINARY_DESCRIPTION"
  ],
  "modules": [
    "PLACES_DIRECTIONS",
    "NARRATIVE_PATTERNS"
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "legacy_present": true,
  "legacy_raw_wording_public": false,
  "senses": [
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000055",
      "label": "Israel-Jesus wilderness testing pattern",
      "classification": "NARRATIVE_PATTERN_OR_TYPE_SCENE",
      "definition": "Matthew 4 presents Jesus in the wilderness for forty days and has him answer the tempter from Deuteronomy 6-8, the section reflecting on Israel's wilderness testing.",
      "not_always": "The correspondence does not turn all wilderness passages into Christological types.",
      "scope_note": "Classify as corporate-representative/recapitulative narrative pattern unless a narrower formal-type claim independently satisfies type criteria.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000055",
          "statement": "Matthew 4 deliberately recapitulates Israel's wilderness testing: Jesus, the Son, is tested in the wilderness and answers from Deuteronomy 6-8 where Israel's wilderness testing is interpreted.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "NARRATIVE_PATTERN_OR_TYPE_SCENE",
            "CORPORATE_REPRESENTATION"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 2,
          "grade_basis": "G2_EXPLICIT_LATER_CANONICAL_CORRESPONDENCE",
          "status": "VERY_STRONGLY_SUPPORTED",
          "public_wording_class": "NT_EXPLICITLY_CONNECTS",
          "scope_limitation": "The correspondence concerns Jesus as faithful Son succeeding where Israel failed; it does not universalize wilderness symbolism.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "The passages can be called deliberate scriptural recapitulation/corporate representation rather than formal typology.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "The exact label TYPE is not required; the project retains NARRATIVE_PATTERN/CORPORATE_REPRESENTATION.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "CHRISTOLOGY",
            "ISRAELOLOGY"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000112",
              "osis_start": "Deut.8.2",
              "osis_end": "Deut.8.3",
              "display_label": "Deuteronomy 8:2-3",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000114",
              "osis_start": "Matt.4.1",
              "osis_end": "Matt.4.11",
              "display_label": "Matthew 4:1-11",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000040",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 6",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000044",
              "author_editor": "Douglas Sean O'Donnell",
              "title": "Matthew Commentary",
              "publication_data": "The Gospel Coalition Bible Commentary",
              "locator": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/commentary/matthew/",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/commentary/matthew/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000056",
      "label": "Multivalent wilderness settings",
      "classification": "MOTIF",
      "definition": "Wilderness can be a setting of testing and judgment, divine provision and presence, refuge, prophetic encounter, or a place specially prepared by God.",
      "not_always": "It is not intrinsically a world without God; many wilderness texts emphasize God's presence and provision there.",
      "scope_note": "Determine function from each passage.",
      "claims": [
        {
          "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000056",
          "statement": "The legacy formula wilderness = the world without God is contradicted as a fixed symbolic definition because Scripture repeatedly depicts God leading, sustaining, meeting, and even preparing refuge for his people in wilderness settings.",
          "asserted_classifications": [
            "MOTIF"
          ],
          "type_kinds": [],
          "evidence_grade": 7,
          "grade_basis": "G7_INSUFFICIENT_BIBLICAL_EVIDENCE",
          "status": "CONTRADICTED_BY_CONTEXT",
          "public_wording_class": "CONTRADICTED_BY_CONTEXT",
          "scope_limitation": "The second half of the legacy statement, a place prepared by God, is explicit in Revelation 12:6 but is passage-specific; the first half cannot serve as a fixed wilderness definition.",
          "strongest_alternative_explanation": "Treat wilderness as a multivalent canonical setting/motif whose function depends on the passage.",
          "residual_uncertainty": "Some wilderness texts do portray desolation or judgment, but this does not establish the legacy universalized negative sense.",
          "theological_intersections": [
            "OTHER"
          ],
          "scripture_references": [
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000115",
              "osis_start": "Rev.12.6",
              "osis_end": null,
              "display_label": "Revelation 12:6",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000112",
              "osis_start": "Deut.8.2",
              "osis_end": "Deut.8.3",
              "display_label": "Deuteronomy 8:2-3",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            },
            {
              "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000114",
              "osis_start": "Matt.4.1",
              "osis_end": "Matt.4.11",
              "display_label": "Matthew 4:1-11",
              "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD"
            }
          ],
          "source_citations": [
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000041",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Legacy Symbols & Types list supplied for TSP project",
              "publication_data": "User-supplied legacy corpus",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "INTERPRETIVE_HISTORY"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000040",
              "author_editor": null,
              "title": "Canonical Scripture: MT/LXX/NA28 with ESV/NET comparison",
              "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S0F Batch 6",
              "locator": null,
              "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY",
                "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": []
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000042",
              "author_editor": "Brian J. Tabb",
              "title": "Revelation Commentary",
              "publication_data": "The Gospel Coalition Bible Commentary",
              "locator": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/commentary/revelation/",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT",
                "INTERPRETIVE_HISTORY"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/commentary/revelation/"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000044",
              "author_editor": "Douglas Sean O'Donnell",
              "title": "Matthew Commentary",
              "publication_data": "The Gospel Coalition Bible Commentary",
              "locator": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/commentary/matthew/",
              "verification_level": "V3_CLAIM_VERIFIED",
              "source_function": [
                "SCHOLARLY_ARGUMENT"
              ],
              "locator_targets": [
                {
                  "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL",
                  "target": "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/commentary/matthew/"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "s8_wording_provenance": null
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lexeme_mappings": [
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000049",
      "language": "HEBREW",
      "lemma_unicode": "מִדְבָּר",
      "transliteration": "midbar",
      "strongs_id": "H4057",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    },
    {
      "lexeme_link_id": "TSP-LEX-000050",
      "language": "GREEK",
      "lemma_unicode": "ἔρημος",
      "transliteration": "eremos",
      "strongs_id": "G2048",
      "owner_tier": "TSP_MAPPING_ONLY",
      "semantic_domain_ids": []
    }
  ],
  "canonical_relationships": [
    {
      "canonical_relationship_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-REL-0009",
      "title": "Wilderness Testing — Jesus recapitulates faithful Israel",
      "canonical_statement": "Matthew 4 deliberately places Jesus, the Son, in an Israel-wilderness testing frame: he answers the tempter from Deuteronomy 8:3, 6:16, and 6:13, succeeding in the covenantal testing where Israel failed.",
      "canonical_action": "CONFIRM_CLUSTER_WITH_SUPPLEMENTARY_S5_MEMBERS",
      "guardrails": [
        "The high-confidence row at Matthew 4:4 is one component, not the exhaustive evidence for the recapitulation claim."
      ],
      "relationship_status": "CONFIRMED_REFINED"
    }
  ],
  "negative_guardrails": [
    {
      "guardrail_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-GRD-037",
      "canonical_relation_status": "NEGATIVE_GUARDRAIL_CONTRADICTED",
      "adjudication_outcome": "CONTRADICTED_BY_CONTEXT",
      "decision_statement": "No positive fixed-symbol/type relationship is authorized for this overlap: The legacy formula wilderness = the world without God is contradicted as a fixed symbolic definition because Scripture repeatedly depicts God leading, sustaining, meeting, and even preparing refuge for his people in wilderness settings."
    },
    {
      "guardrail_id": "TSP-S6-R03-P03-GRD-049",
      "canonical_relation_status": "EXCLUDED_OR_LIMITED_COMPONENT_OF_SPLIT_CONCEPT",
      "adjudication_outcome": "SPLIT_CONCEPT",
      "decision_statement": "Excluded/limited claim component preserved separately from the positive canonical relationship."
    }
  ]
}