Chaos in the Bible.

I love the Bible! What a testament to Chaos!

In the history of our culture there is probably no other piece of literature that has been reworked by so many committees of duplicitous connivers and translated and re-translated by so many generations of scribes, each with his own cultural baggage and political agenda.

The Book is the product of a very reiterative process and what we get in the end is the result of accretion and deletion, acts both deliberate and unintentional, the secret insertion of subtexts, the adoption of local myth, cultural appropriation, acts motivated by politics, ignorance, faith or higher knowledge, perpetrated by the power hungry as well as the altruistic.

Just look at the multitude of variations of faith in the Children of Abraham, each one is the only true way and no two are alike. Multiply this by the factor that many of these people say one thing, believe another and act without regard to either.

This is because there are various, sometimes contradictory meanings, coded into the text at different scales, using self reference, foreshadowing, double entendre, symbolism, and even Kabbalistic and numerological ciphers.

The Bible is a mythical map for an ever changing cultural terrain. Maybe the lesson to be learned from studying the Bible is that many forms of Order can be derived from Chaos, but these forms are projected by the observer based on there position in space and time.