Preface
With this book I have come to the end of a cycle of thinking and writing which began some 40 years ago. By way of introduction I would like to share something of that history.
An unpublished dissertation, written in 1965, could have had the subtitle, “Chaos, Order, and the Creative Process.” As a matter of fact the dissertation dealt with arcane approaches to biblical interpretation, particularly as this related to the nature and function of myth. But through the esoterica of biblical scholarship there appeared a continuing theme: the great cosmic dance of chaos and order. I have been working that theme ever since.
As it turned out, my life path, and the world of biblical scholarship radically diverged at roughly the time I wrote that ...
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