complex about this claim nor is it filled with much conceptual baggage at the beginning of the canon of Scripture. It is primarily a methodological point. As a book enacting a mega-narrative between God and his creatures, the reflections (and distortions thereof) between humankind and God are woven into the fabric of the story itself. These reflections allow the story to make the divine–human interactions intelligible. A conceptual linkage between God and humans is one of reflection—so the opening