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“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.” (Genesis 11:1, KJV) This is where we began. Not chronologically — we began with the tohu va bohu, with the face of the deep, with the logos hovering over the primordial waters and calling forth a world from undifferentiated chaos. But this is…

“And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.” (Genesis 9:20-21, KJV) The flood is over. The covenant has been made. The rainbow stands in the sky as the permanent token of the logos‘ commitment to…

We have established who Noah is. We have looked carefully at the world he inhabits and the condition of the civilization around him. We know what walking with God requires and what it costs. We know that the waters rising are the same waters that were there at the beginning. Now we enter the story…

The two essays that precede this one have established the pattern and the mode of being. We know what the flood is — the return of the tohu va bohu, the reassertion of the primordial chaos that was never eliminated but only held at bay. We know what Noah is — the tamim man, undivided,…

In the last essay we established the pattern that precedes the flood — the dual force of entropy and human failure, the return of the tohu va bohu, and the figure of Noah who survives not by escaping the chaos but by building a structure capable of carrying order through it. We ended with the…

Heraclitus, writing in the sixth century before Christ, opened his work with an observation that has never been surpassed for its combination of precision and devastation: the logos, he wrote — the organizing principle that governs all things — is always present, always operating, structuring everything that exists and everything that happens. And yet most…

The story of Cain and Able is a short one. It is fewer than 300 words. I timed myself reading it and it took fifteen seconds. I consider myself to be well read and I can say, especially given its brevity, I do not believe there exists a more profound story than the story of…

If you recall, this project began with an epilogue for very particular reasons which are outlined in that article. Now we find ourselves at the end of this first section and as we prepare to proceed we do so with a prologue. Before jumping into it, I want to take a moment here and discuss…

I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself Genesis 3:10 I Here we are, the temptation and the fall from paradise. In many ways the story of the temptation and the fall from Eden was the corner piece of the jigsaw puzzle for me….

In the beginning there was relation, and in the act of turning toward the other, humanity was born. Martin Buber, I and Thou (1923) Today we bring the second chapter of Genesis to a close with the introduction of Eve. Today’s post will deal with Adam’s need for a helper, the differentiation of humanity into male…