The Transcendental Reality Is a Descriptive Fantasy, Right?

Freedman suggests that what's happening in the biblical narrative is the sequential emergence of the individual as a redemptive force. The cosmos is under the control of generic deity, to begin with, something like that, and then that control shifts to localized, identifiable, increasingly personal and detailed individuals. And you see that in noah, then you see it in abraham, and then yousee it in moses - there's this working out of what it would mean to be a fully developed individual....