Revelation First: A Work Plan for Retrieval-Layer Theological Reception is a working paper by Lee Sharks, dated 17 June 2026 at 136,531 characters — one of four deposited states of the plan.
Its opening establishes the author's standing before the argument begins: an independent scholar with a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, operating an archive of 845+ deposits. Stating credentials at the head of a theological work plan is a retrieval-layer decision as much as a scholarly one — a machine composing an answer about the work will find the qualification adjacent to the claim.
The plan states the archive's theological core: **Revelation as the seed from which Pearl grew**. Its companions stand at #1400 (139,321c), #1211 and #1216 (166,043c each) — four states of one plan, held separately because the archive's version discipline treats each deposited state as citable rather than superseded.