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“As Certain Also of Your Own Poets Have Said”: Greek Poetic and Philosophical Truth in Scripture and Its Implications

Posted on September 28, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary On at least three occasions, the apostle Paul quoted Greek poets, and his words, including those quotations, now stand in the inspired text. In Athens he cited two lines associated with Epimenides and Aratus (Acts 17:28). Writing to … Continue reading →

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Purpose, Not Reliability? Examining the Testimonial Line

Posted on September 24, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Under current Confrontation Clause doctrine, whether a forensic analyst must testify depends on whether the analyst’s report is testimonial, and whether a report is testimonial depends chiefly on the purpose for which it was made. A laboratory report prepared … Continue reading →

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Corroboration Versus Sequence: Witness Multiplicity as Appearance and Reality

Posted on September 24, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract A long witness list suggests to jurors and observers that a fact has been confirmed many times over. That suggestion is often mistaken. This paper distinguishes two structures in which multiple witnesses appear at trial. In corroboration, several witnesses … Continue reading →

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Prolegomenon On How Evidence Comes to Speak

Posted on September 23, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. The Problem of the Silent Result A person who sits through a modern criminal trial in which DNA evidence plays a part will often witness a curious procession. Before the jury hears what the laboratory found, it hears from … Continue reading →

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The Known Past and the Contested Present: How Historical Memory Governs Verdicts of Progress and Decline

Posted on July 7, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines a recurring problem in the history of ideas: why some observers read their own moment as an ascent out of prior ignorance while others read it as a fall from a lost greatness. Taking as its … Continue reading →

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Method: Reading, Reconstructing, and Refusing to Overreach

Posted on April 26, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction The previous two papers surveyed the principal bodies of fragmentary evidence — the Hebrew witness to the Old Testament and the Greek witness to the New — and assessed what each does and does not establish. Those surveys assumed, … Continue reading →

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A Hermeneutics of Humility for the Fragmentary Witness

Posted on April 25, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction The previous paper set out a biblicist hermeneutic and argued that a high view of Scripture, far from discouraging careful work with the manuscript witnesses, actually requires it. Yet a high view of Scripture left to itself can produce, … Continue reading →

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The Honest Eye: Jane Austen’s Institutional Vision and the Claims of Realism: A White Paper on Austen’s Social Epistemology and Its Broader Analytical Significance

Posted on March 26, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Jane Austen is most commonly read as a novelist of personal relationships — of courtship, marriage, and the interior drama of individual moral development. This reading, while not wrong, substantially underestimates the scope and systematic character of her analytical … Continue reading →

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Prolegomenon: Against Fragmentation

Posted on February 26, 2026 by nathanalbright

Prefatory Note This volume does not begin with an argument. It begins with a diagnosis. The pages that follow are a prolegomenon — a word that deserves a moment’s explanation, since its purpose determines how it ought to be read. … Continue reading →

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Recovering Gestalt Thinking for Epistemic and Ontological Repair

Posted on February 26, 2026 by nathanalbright

Modern intellectual life is marked by a powerful drift toward isolation and reductionism. Problems are decomposed into ever-smaller units; disciplines fragment into subfields; persons are understood as bundles of preferences or traits; institutions are reduced to incentive systems; meaning is … Continue reading →

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