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The Bio-Logos of Malta

2025· book-chapter· en· W4413185934 on OpenAlex

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Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicScience Education and Perceptions
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLogos Bible SoftwareComputer science

Abstract

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Abstract This final chapter triangulates the drama of Paul’s shipwreck off Malta and three-month contact with the islanders (Acts 27–8) with William Strachey’s structurally derived report of the wreck of the Sea Venture on Bermuda as resources for Shakespeare’s creation of Prospero’s shipwrecks and his island encounter with Caliban. The latter’s environmental personhood, I argue, is the pre-colonial foundation of his linguistic and bodily resistance to Prospero and Miranda’s ‘salvaging’ programme of Humanist re-education. I open these intertextual connections by analysing a visual narrative of Paul’s Maltese shipwreck in Abraham Ortelius’s map of his Mediterranean journeys. I then explore how Paul’s encounters with the native Maltese provided him and his company with life-saving hospitality. But uniquely in the miracle narrative of Acts, the Maltese are not converted. Similarly under-examined in Strachey’s report are his detailed observations of Bermuda’s biodiversity. They became a resource for Shakespeare’s biogeographical conception of Caliban’s island, and in turn for Caliban’s spontaneously humane hospitality to the Italian castaways, which Prospero and Miranda later betray with colonial enslavement. After Prospero becomes conscious of the anarchic passions of revenge, he seems partly to acknowledge Caliban’s ‘salvaging’ bio-spirituality, as well as the ‘darkness’ of trying to extinguish it, in his divided Epilogue. I conclude by briefly speculating about Caliban’s ‘hereafters’ as a racialized slave or servant in mainland Europe.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.663
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0810.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.066
GPT teacher head0.385
Teacher spread0.319 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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