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Paper 9: My River Is Mine Own: The Imperial First Person and the Instrument Metaphor

Posted on September 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster C Abstract Paper 7 examined the timing of the imperial declaration; Paper 8 examined the empire’s address to a subject population, and left one of the Rabshakeh’s seven moves standing — the … Continue reading →

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Paper 8: Rabshakeh at the Wall: 2 Kings 18:19–35 as a Complete Specimen of Imperial Address to a Subject Population

Posted on September 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster C Abstract Paper 7 examined the imperial ruler speaking about himself. This paper examines the empire speaking to someone else. Its subject is the speech delivered by the Rabshakeh at the wall … Continue reading →

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Paper 7: The Loudest Night Is the Last Night: Daniel 5, Daniel 4:30, Acts 12:21–23, and the Boast as Terminal Symptom

Posted on September 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster C Abstract Clusters A and B concerned structure and proportion. Cluster C concerns speech, and specifically the relation between the volume of an imperial claim and the strength remaining behind it. This … Continue reading →

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Paper 6: Neither Surplus Nor Deficit: The Two Mismatch Ideologies, Naboth’s Vineyard, and the Asymmetry of the Biblical Legislation

Posted on September 8, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster B Abstract Papers 4 and 5 established the two halves of the biblical account of proportion: a ceiling on acquisition indexed to the population available to hold the ground, and a distribution … Continue reading →

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Paper 5: To Many the More, to Few the Less: Numbers 26:53–56, Numbers 33:54, Genesis 13, and the Demographic Ratio as a Moral Quantity

Posted on September 8, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster B Abstract Paper 4 established that Scripture rate-limits the transfer of land to the population available to hold it. That is a ceiling on acquisition. It does not say how land already … Continue reading →

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Paper 4: By Little and Little: Exodus 23:29–30, Deuteronomy 7:22, and the Legislated Land-to-People Ceiling

Posted on September 8, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Bounds of Their Habitation, Tier 1, Cluster B Abstract Cluster A established the imperial configuration, the device by which Scripture names it across regimes, and the positive doctrine of plural, bounded peoples that stands behind both. Cluster B turns … Continue reading →

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

Posted on September 7, 2026 by nathanalbright

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

Posted on September 7, 2026 by nathanalbright

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

Posted on September 7, 2026 by nathanalbright

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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