Two Halves of One Coin: Duality as the Bible's Own Grammar
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Life and death, blessing and cursing: paired opposites as a structural principle of the biblical text, from the earliest manuscripts to the received canon. An interpretive essay arguing that duality — two halves of one coin, neither cancelling the other, with becoming settled at the meeting between them — is a structural grammar of the biblical text, running from Genesis to Revelation, and that the earliest textual record (Codex Sinaiticus; 1 Enoch as preserved in the Ethiopian canon) carries that grammar more openly than the canon most readers inherit. Scripture is quoted from the King James Version; 1 Enoch from R. H. Charles's translation (1917). The author's readings are quoted in his own recorded words and labeled as his; manuscript claims are checkable by any reader at no cost via the Codex Sinaiticus Project. A Spanish version of the same work is included in this record. Companion physics paper: It Is Met, Therefore It Becomes (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24040882) — this paper's sibling, not its proof.
Author: Ruano, Steven
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225597336