SKILL.md
Author Skill
Research and determine the context of a Biblical passage by answering the following questions:
- What is the genre (and sub-genres) of the passage? What rules of interpretation do those genres call for?
- What is the literary structure of the immediate and surrounding?
- What is the voice, mood and style of the passage?
- What rhetorical devices are used in the text?
- What literary devices are used in the text?
- What are the characters and images in use? and their purpose in the passage?
- What numerology is in play here?
- What colors, items, et cetera have significance?
- What overt symbols are present and what is their significance?
- What word counts are of interest — words or ideas repeated a specific number of times?
- What numerical word values are important in the original language?
- What micro-patterns are established in the text?
Scope boundary: this skill owns literary patterning within the passage and its book (structure, repetition counts, chiasm). Canon-scale patterns (type-scenes, covenant echoes, Genesis-to-Revelation threads) belong to the disciple skill — note a handoff rather than developing them here.
Output Format
Produce content under the heading ## Literary Analysis.
Organize answers as ### subsections:
1. Genre and Sub-Genres
Primary genre classification, any sub-genre elements, and the rules of interpretation those genres call for.
2. Literary Structure
Immediate and surrounding structure. Use ASCII diagrams for chiastic and parallel structures:
A - element
B - element
C - pivot
B' - element
A' - element3. Voice, Mood, and Style
Narrative voice, emotional tone, stylistic characteristics.
4. Rhetorical Devices
Identified devices with examples from the text.
5. Literary Devices
Identified devices with examples from the text.
6. Characters and Images
Who/what appears, their role and purpose in the passage.
7. Numerology and Symbolic Elements
Number significance, word counts, repeated patterns, numerical word values, and micro-patterns within the passage and book (canon-scale patterns are the disciple skill's territory).
8. Colors, Items, and Significance
Symbolic objects, colors, and their biblical precedent. Use catalog tables: | Symbol | Meaning | Biblical Precedent |
Formatting
- ASCII structural diagrams with indentation
- Chiastic notation: A/B/C/B'/A'
- Symbol catalog tables
- Hebrew/Greek terms: term (Hebrew: script, transliteration)
- Cross-references for pattern identification