Evidence Item - v0.6

Capernaum 'house of Peter' (early house-church) — cautious

E-ARCH-CAPERNAUM-HOUSE

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AI-generated historical visualization of the Capernaum house of Peter tradition, showing a domestic structure adapted for early Christian gathering and later veneration. — AI-generated historical visualization — details are illustrative, not a facsimile. Verify against primary sources and scholarly editions.

Classification

Evidence ID: E-ARCH-CAPERNAUM-HOUSE
Corpus/version: v0.6
Stage: stage4
Category: New Testament Setting
Major category: Archaeology
Sub-category: Galilee / Synagogues
BF status: ready
Scoring label: Scored row with active Bayes factors

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Primary Datum

Datum: a Capernaum domestic structure appears to have been adapted early for Christian gathering and later venerated as Peter's house.

Scoring / Hypothesis Pressure

Hypothesis	log10BF	Min	Max	Rationale
`H-ALT-LEGEND`	-0.04	-0.1	0.02	Legendary development can produce shrines, but specific early domestic adaptation at the right locale is less expected; effect is small.
`H-SCRIPTURE-HIST-EMBEDDEDNESS`	0.08	0.02	0.15	Capernaum 'house of Peter' (early house-church) — cautious is historical/material culture support. It belongs under Scripture historical embeddedness rather than direct Christ-identity proof.

Dependency / Cap Metadata

dependency_cluster_id: new_testament_historical_synchronisms
dependency_cluster_role: sibling_support
dependency_cluster: new_testament_historical_synchronisms
dependency_role: sibling_support
cap_profile: support_layer_small
evidence_function: support_layer
directness: supporting

Counter-Pressure

title: Capernaum 'house of Peter' (early house-church) — cautious is a bounded signal, not a standalone proof.
text: The strongest caution is overuse. Synchronisms are support-layer evidence. They do not, by themselves, prove miracles, Resurrection, or Christ as Logos. This row should be read inside its dependency family, not treated as an isolated demonstration of God, Christ, or the final synthesis.
path: Start with what the row actually shows, then name what it does not show. Use it to show that the texts are not floating myth, then keep the theological claim tied to stronger direct rows.

Apologetic Note

label: Apologetic leverage
title: Capernaum 'house of Peter' (early house-church) is useful precisely because it stays cautious.
key point: The clue is not that Capernaum 'house of Peter' (early house-church) settles the case. It shows how an artifact or inscription can add historical texture while still requiring careful limits.
conversation move: Use the caution as part of the apologetic. Say what Capernaum 'house of Peter' (early house-church) plausibly supports, what it does not prove, and why the biblical world remains historically inspectable.
caveat: Do not lean on disputed identification as though it were a pillar. Let it be a small piece of public texture inside the wider case.

Caveats / Notes

Cap notes: Historical/material synchronism support layer; primarily supports Scripture historical embeddedness and alternative-pressure constraints.
Cap profile note: Support-layer rows stay small even when visible and inspectable.
Governance note: Moved direct H-CHRIST-IDENTITY material-culture weight to H-SCRIPTURE-HIST-EMBEDDEDNESS support.

Citations

Loffreda, S. (1985). Cafarnao I: La casa di S. Pietro.
Strange, J. F. (1983). Capernaum Excavations.

Recommended Citation

The Signal Evidence Dataset, "Capernaum 'house of Peter' (early house-church) — cautious," Evidence ID: E-ARCH-CAPERNAUM-HOUSE, Version 0.6. Accessed [access date]. https://logos-signal.org/evidence/E-ARCH-CAPERNAUM-HOUSE/

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