Yahwist Liberation Hermeneutic · Digital Artifact Repository
A collection of interactive instruments for reading scripture as a site of competing cosmologies — where contradiction is data, consequence is the measure, and liberation is the horizon.
The Yahwist Liberation Hermeneutic is a polyphonic interpretive methodology that reads biblical texts as sites of competing cosmologies shaped by distinct social, political, and theological conditions.
Rather than seeking textual harmony or privileging the final canonical form, YLH treats contradiction and tension as analytically productive — distinguishing between traditions that resist domination and affirm human dignity, and those that function to stabilize hierarchy, ritualized control, or imperial order.
Meaning is assessed not by coherence or intent alone, but by consequence: how texts function to shape moral imagination, social organization, and structures of power.
An interactive game for examining how opposing poles function in metaphysical systems. Build hierarchies, watch them calcify, and interrogate who benefits from the structure.
InteractiveGameImperial AnalysisRadar chart visualizations showing convergence between Hebrew covenantal theology, Indigenous relational metaphysics, and Liberation Christianity — and where Empire Christianity clusters with Greek/Roman imperial frameworks.
Data VizChartsA full interactive timeline mapping Liberation and Imperial metaphysics across U.S. History and 7 centuries of early Christianity — with flashpoint collision analysis, Church Fathers track, economic periods, and presidential data.
InteractiveTimelineHistoryAn interactive tool for examining what binary structures do when hardened versus held fluid. Uses Genesis as a case study in competing creation cosmologies and their downstream consequences.
InteractiveText AnalysisThe full methodological overview: source traditions, interpretive axes, ethical register, and how YLH positions itself within and against the dominant Western hermeneutical canon.
ExplainerScholarshipYLH applied to the world as it is. Each analysis is published in two versions — theological and secular — running the same five analytical operations with different vocabulary.
The translation is intentional. It demonstrates that the framework is portable across communities: faith scholars, policy analysts, organizers, and researchers can all use the same methodology without requiring a shared theological starting point.
YLH full analysis of OpenAI's April 2026 policy blueprint. Five operations: consequence mapping, algorithm identification, substrate excavation, competing cosmologies detection, counter-algorithm specification.
YLHTheologicalTech PolicyThe same analysis — mechanism audit, distributional index, hidden assumptions, excluded perspectives, alternative specifications — translated for policy analysts, organizers, and general audiences.
SecularPolicyTechOn the translation: Both analyses run identical operations. "Substrate excavation" in theological language is "hidden assumptions audit" in policy language. "Competing cosmologies" is "excluded stakeholder perspectives." "Counter-algorithm specification" is "alternative mechanism design." The methodology does not change. Only the vocabulary does. Read both to see the translation in real time.
Texts are evaluated by what they produce in the world, not by their internal logical consistency.
Tension within the text is not a problem to be resolved — it is a record of competing voices and cosmologies.
Hebrew, African, and Indigenous ways of knowing are treated as equally legitimate starting points.
The moral register is grounded in radical love, structural justice, and the Beloved Community as interpretive horizon.