Category Archives: Bible

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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Word of Mouth: Reputation, Report, and the Selective Regulation of Informal Speech: A white paper on a single phrase and the two problems it holds

Posted on August 27, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract One phrase does two kinds of work. In music criticism, “word of mouth” names an unmeasured cause invoked to explain a measured outcome; in institutional life, it names a good that organizations purchase eagerly in one direction and punish … Continue reading →

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Storing Against the Second Bad Year: A Governance White Paper on Multi-Year Buffer Reserves, the Genesis 41 Model, and Why Sound Counsel Is So Seldom Followed

Posted on August 24, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The counsel Joseph gave Pharaoh in Genesis 41 — appoint a standing officer, levy a fifth of the harvest during years of surplus, store it in decentralized municipal depots under central authority, and hold it against consecutive years of … Continue reading →

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I Have Set Before You An Open Door

Posted on August 23, 2026 by nathanalbright

[Note:  These are the notes for a split sermon given to the United Church of God congregation in Portland, Oregon on Sabbath, August 22, 2026.] Good morning brethren. One of the things you learn when you have to deal with … Continue reading →

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Common Seed: Panspermia, Shared Jeopardy, and the Grounds of Interspecies Compatibility in Project Hail Mary

Posted on August 16, 2026 by nathanalbright

Paper Three of the Series “The Ledger and the Covenant” Abstract Project Hail Mary supplies a physical explanation for why two species from different star systems can understand each other, cooperate, and save one another: astrophage propagates from Tau Ceti … Continue reading →

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Two in the Dark: Covenant Partnership and the Refutation of Engineered Solitude in Project Hail Mary

Posted on August 16, 2026 by nathanalbright

Paper One of the Series “The Ledger and the Covenant” Abstract Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary (2021) is built on a design decision that the novel never examines directly: the crew of the Hail Mary was to be rendered unconscious … Continue reading →

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The Chair and the Floor: What the Death of Jason Arday Should Teach Us

Posted on August 15, 2026 by nathanalbright

Jason Arday was found unresponsive in Battersea, south London, on Friday, and pronounced dead at the scene at forty-one. Police have called the death unexpected but not suspicious, which is the careful language of an inquiry that has not yet … Continue reading →

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