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  "visual_asset": {
    "src": "assets/evidence-viewer/evidence-images/first-corinthians-15-witness-structure-context.png",
    "title": "1 Corinthians 15 witness structure visual overview",
    "alt": "AI-generated biblical and historical visualization of the 1 Corinthians 15 witness structure, showing Cephas, the Twelve, more than five hundred, James, all the apostles, Paul, and early resurrection testimony.",
    "caption": "AI-generated biblical / historical visualization — illustrative only, not a facsimile. Verify details against Scripture, primary sources, and scholarly studies.",
    "width": 1448,
    "height": 1086
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  "article": "<section class=\"plain-english-door\" aria-label=\"Introduction\">\n  <p class=\"plain-english-door__kicker\">Introduction</p>\n  <h3>1 Corinthians 15 witness-structure context</h3>\n  <p class=\"plain-english-door__lead\">In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul lists witnesses: Cephas, the Twelve, more than five hundred, James, all the apostles, and himself. That is not a vague feeling of inspiration. It is a structured public claim, tied to names and groups that the early church treated as witnesses.</p>\n  <div class=\"plain-english-door__grid\">\n  <div class=\"plain-english-door__panel\">\n    <h4>Why it matters</h4>\n    <p>It shows that the resurrection claim took testimonial form very early.</p>\n  </div>\n  <div class=\"plain-english-door__panel\">\n    <h4>What this does not mean</h4>\n    <p>It does not prove every appearance automatically.</p>\n  </div>\n  <div class=\"plain-english-door__panel\">\n    <h4>How it pressures the map</h4>\n    <p>It presses explanations that reduce Easter to private comfort or anonymous legend.</p>\n  </div>\n  <div class=\"plain-english-door__panel\">\n    <h4>Go deeper</h4>\n    <p>The Full Dossier follows the witness list and its overlap with the early creed.</p>\n  </div>\n  </div>\n</section>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Observation</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<p><strong>The witness list in 1 Corinthians 15 has a shape.</strong> Paul names Cephas, the Twelve, more than five hundred, James, all the apostles, and finally himself.</p>\n<p>This row exists to explain that witness structure without adding a second score on top of the canonical creed row.</p>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">What It Shows</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<p>The witness list is not a generic claim that someone somewhere had a religious feeling. It is a structured claim about named and grouped witnesses. That structure matters for how the Resurrection evidence is interpreted, but the numerical weight belongs to the canonical 1 Corinthians 15 anchor and the bounded witness-context rows.</p>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">What It Does Not Show</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>It adds no Bayes factor.</li>\n<li>It is not a duplicate scored creed row.</li>\n<li>It does not independently prove the Resurrection.</li>\n<li>It must not stack with EV-ERC-1COR15 as a second 1 Corinthians 15 score.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Bayesian Meaning</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<p>This is unweighted explanatory context. Its Bayes factor object is empty, its hypothesis references are empty, and its purpose is to make the witness-list structure inspectable without double-counting the creed.</p>\n</div>",
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    "A6",
    "A7"
  ],
  "bayes_factors": {},
  "category": "Resurrection Witness",
  "citations": [
    {
      "raw": "1 Corinthians 15:3-8.",
      "title": "1 Corinthians 15:3-8",
      "source_role": "primary_text",
      "claim_supported": "Primary Pauline text for the witness-list shape and named appearances.",
      "source_posture": "primary",
      "notes": "Context row; does not add a second score on top of EV-ERC-1COR15."
    },
    {
      "raw": "N. T. Wright, The Resurrection of the Son of God (Fortress, 2003).",
      "author": "N. T. Wright",
      "title": "The Resurrection of the Son of God",
      "year": "2003",
      "publisher_or_journal": "Fortress Press",
      "source_role": "direct_support",
      "claim_supported": "Historical and Jewish-context support for reading the witness list as early resurrection proclamation.",
      "source_posture": "christian_academic"
    },
    {
      "raw": "Dale C. Allison Jr., The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2021).",
      "author": "Dale C. Allison Jr.",
      "title": "The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History",
      "year": "2021",
      "publisher_or_journal": "Bloomsbury T&T Clark",
      "source_role": "critical_pressure",
      "claim_supported": "Critical and cautionary context for resurrection-history claims and apologetic overreach.",
      "source_posture": "mainstream_academic"
    }
  ],
  "scripture_passage": "1 Corinthians 15:3-8",
  "counts_in_cache": true,
  "evidence_id": "E-HIST-1COR15-WITNESS-STRUCTURE-CONTEXT",
  "major_category": "History",
  "metadata": {
    "category": "Resurrection Witness",
    "last_updated": "2026-05-12",
    "major_category": "History",
    "rev": 1,
    "sub_category": "Witness Structure",
    "stage": "stage5",
    "evidence_function": "unweighted_explanatory",
    "directness": "explanatory_only",
    "dependency_cluster": "resurrection_witness_structure",
    "dependency_role": "duplicate_context",
    "cap_profile": "exact_duplicate",
    "canonical_anchor": "EV-ERC-1COR15",
    "source_status": "explanatory_context",
    "source_note": "Explains the 1 Cor 15 witness-list shape without adding a second score on top of EV-ERC-1COR15.",
    "scoring_note": "Unweighted explanatory context; no Bayes factors.",
    "dependency_cluster_id": "early_creed_1cor15",
    "dependency_cluster_label": "Early creed / 1 Corinthians 15 witness structure",
    "dependency_cluster_role": "context_only",
    "dependency_weight_class": "unweighted_context",
    "cap_eligible": false,
    "cap_exempt_reason": "unweighted_context",
    "cap_family": "resurrection_witness_structure",
    "cap_notes": "This row provides context for 1 Corinthians 15 witness-structure reasoning. It remains unweighted and does not add independent BF on top of scored Resurrection or witness rows.",
    "governance_reviewed": "2026-05-28",
    "governance_note": "Unweighted context under EV-ERC-1COR15.",
    "counts_as_direct_resurrection": false,
    "counts_as_direct_christ_identity": false,
    "counts_as_direct_logos_synthesis": false
  },
  "sub_category": "Witness Structure",
  "summary": "Datum: The witness list in 1 Corinthians 15 has a structured shape: Cephas, the Twelve, more than five hundred, James, all the apostles, and Paul.",
  "tags": [
    "Stage-5",
    "Resurrection",
    "Witness",
    "Unweighted",
    "Explanatory"
  ],
  "tilt": "positive",
  "title": "1 Corinthians 15 witness-structure context",
  "type": "context",
  "hypothesis_ref": [],
  "last_updated": "2026-05-12T00:00:00Z",
  "status": "v2",
  "bf_status": "unweighted_explanatory",
  "disposition_status": "unweighted_explanatory",
  "counter_pressure": {
    "title": "1 Corinthians 15 witness-structure context is context, not an extra scored proof.",
    "text": "This row helps readers understand the early creed / 1 Corinthians 15 witness structure family, but it should not be treated as independent BF pressure on top of its child or sibling rows. Context rows should not add independent BF on top of scored child rows.",
    "path": "Use it to orient the question and then move to the scored rows that carry the evidential weight. Use it to orient the witness structure, then let scored Resurrection rows carry the numerical pressure."
  }
}