Method, rights & provenance

A map with its legend attached.

Emmaus Atlas is built to make interpretation inspectable. Connection types, warrants, dates, sources, and unresolved questions stay beside the reading experience.

Connection grammar

Type says what; warrant says why.

A link can be fulfillment, dual fulfillment, typology, quotation, allusion, doctrine, or a lectionary pairing. Its warrant records the strongest principal basis: New Testament explicit, New Testament allusion, patristic, liturgical, commentary, or traditional.

NT explicit: The New Testament itself quotes or directly applies the earlier passage.
Patristic: An identified Church Father supplies the principal interpretive basis.
Liturgical: The Roman lectionary or liturgical text deliberately places the readings together.
Traditional: A durable Catholic reading that still requires precise supporting sources.

Chronology

Conservative dates, honest intervals.

Passages sit on the timeline at their conservative written cutoff, or the later event where appropriate. Years use signed historical notation: negative is BC, positive is AD, and there is no year zero. A link’s minimum gap is recomputed on every build.

−400395 yearsAD 5

Pinned corpora

Text never arrives from a mutable build-time URL.

CPDV

Catholic Public Domain Version

Original Edition

Primary personal-study text. The source identifies Ronald L. Conte Jr. as sole translator and does not state ecclesiastical or liturgical approval.

Exact source · Rights evidence · status: imported

DRC

Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision

1899 Baltimore edition

Secondary public-domain comparison text, normalized from the checksum-pinned eBible.org 1899 Douay-Rheims USFM archive.

Exact source · Rights evidence · status: imported

Each normalized book is checked into Git. Its manifest records upstream revision, retrieval time, original checksum, normalized checksum, rights evidence, and normalizer version.

Publication discipline

Imported is not the same as approved.

Every passage mapping begins as “needs review.” Every interpretive link begins as draft. Preview builds show those labels and block indexing; production builds fail unless the curated closure passes versification, source, citation-coverage, issue-resolution, and provenance gates.

Bounded visual references

Historic art, not generated sacred imagery.

Christ walking beside two disciples on the road to Emmaus in Duccio’s painted panel — Duccio di Buoninsegna, Road to Emmaus, c. 1308–1311. Public domain.

The risen Christ blessing bread at table with disciples in Caravaggio’s 1606 painting — Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus, 1606. Public domain.

Source pages, license status, local filenames, crop notes, and alt text are preserved in public/art/manifest.json.