edition will be of value not simply to readers who cannot understand the original German, but even to those who can. Creation and Chaos, as Whitney makes plain, is about the history of a particular mythological motif in some of the literatures of the ancient Near East, namely, the cosmic conflict between the forces, or, more precisely, the deities, of chaos and order. Taking as his central focus the treatment of this motif in the Old and New Testaments, preeminently in Genesis 1 and Revelation (Apocalypse)