rooted in the physical realm where humans live. By no means, however, is the world conjured by Scripture simply to be identified with the physical realm where humans live and act. For one thing, the world imagined by Scripture is considerably smaller than the human world we call our own. The spatial world of Scripture is tiny, for example, when compared to the cosmos of Carl Sagan.1 And the temporal world of Scripture is hardly to be compared to the history of time imagined by Stephen Hawking.2 The