Daily Archives: September 7, 2026

Paper 3: Bounds of Their Habitation: Acts 17:26, Deuteronomy 32:8, and the Positive Doctrine of Plural, Bounded Nations

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The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster A Abstract Papers 1 and 2 established the imperial configuration and the canon’s device for naming it across discontinuous regimes. Both were negative: they described what the text is against. This paper … Continue reading →

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Paper 2: One Name, Many Regimes: The Transhistorical Use of “Babylon” and the Problem of Imperial Persistence

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The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster A Abstract Paper 1 argued that Genesis 11 describes a configuration rather than a polity, and that the narrator’s substitution of Babel for the city’s own self-designation established Scripture’s right to name … Continue reading →

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Paper 1: Babel Is Not a Place: Genesis 11:1–9 as the Founding Anti-Imperial Text of Scripture

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The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster A Abstract This paper argues that Genesis 11:1–9 functions in the canon not as an etiology of linguistic diversity attached to a particular ruined ziggurat, but as the founding description of a … Continue reading →

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Introduction: The Type and the State

Posted on September 7, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. The problem this collection addresses Most contemporary analysis of empire is organized around states. It asks which polities were empires, when they began, how they were administered, and when they ended. The categories are territorial and institutional: extent of … Continue reading →

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