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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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Judge Not?  Judge Better.

Posted on August 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

[Note:  This is the prepared text for a sermonette given to the Portland, Oregon congregation of the United Church of God on Sabbath, August 8, 2026.] Almost everyone who has spent time around the Bible has run into it. You … Continue reading →

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The Difference Between Dead and Asleep

Posted on August 2, 2026 by nathanalbright

[Note:  This is the prepared text for a sermon given to the United Church of God in The Dalles, Oregon on Sabbath, August 1, 2026.] Introduction: A Week Among the Dying and the Dead I have spent most of this … Continue reading →

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The Two Failures of Memory That Scripture Names

Posted on July 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The foregoing papers established that remembrance is a covenantal duty (Paper 1) and set out the machinery by which the covenant equips its people to keep it (Papers 2–3). This paper turns from the duty and its means to … Continue reading →

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White Paper 2: Conscripting the Jury: How the Direct Address Recruits the Viewer as Accomplice

Posted on July 3, 2026 by nathanalbright

Isolating Audience Conscription Preliminary note on task. This paper, like the first, does one thing. It takes the single mechanism the Prolegomenon named audience conscription, sets it apart, and shows how it works. It does not supply the remedy — … Continue reading →

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WP-10: From Diagnosis to Repentance

Posted on June 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim, and it is the claim the entire suite exists to reach: that the detection of self-exemption, however complete, changes nothing of itself, and that what changes a man is the turn from exposure … Continue reading →

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WP-5. Partiality as the Enemy of Justice

Posted on June 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that partiality — the practice of weighing the same act differently according to who performed it — is not a minor imperfection in justice but its direct contradiction, and that the law of … Continue reading →

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WP-3. Naming the Sin in the Story but Not in the Mirror

Posted on June 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that a person can possess complete and accurate moral judgment about an act when it is set before him in another man’s story, and total blindness to the identical act when it is … Continue reading →

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WP-2. The Near Eye and the Far Eye: Why Others Are Easy to Judge

Posted on June 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that the ease with which a person judges a neighbor and the difficulty with which he judges himself is not mainly a failure of effort or honesty but a structural feature of vantage. … Continue reading →

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The Measure Ye Mete: A Biblicist Treatise on Reciprocity, the Rod of Judgment, and the Hard Labor of Measuring Oneself

Posted on June 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

PART I — PROLEGOMENON 1. Statement of Purpose and the Three Governing Questions 1.1 The plain problem stated: the human ease of measuring others and the difficulty of measuring oneself There is a strange unevenness built into the way a … Continue reading →

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