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This book would not have been possible without two professors of dialogical reading, Otto Michel (1903–1993), Professor of the Evangelisch-theologische Fakultät and founder of the Institutum Judaicum at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany, who taught me to read the texts of the Johannine tradition in dialogical interaction with its Hebraic substrate, the Hebrew Bible; and Allan W. Anderson (1922–2013), Professor of Religion at San Diego State University, who taught me to read the Bible in dialogical interaction with the Hindu Scriptures.

On October 14, 2012, I participated in a discussion of I and Thou which became my call to engage with it more deeply and to turn to engage with Martin Buber. The text, the voice, and the person stand together as one in witness to dialogue, to encounter with others and with the eternal Thou.

Seven years with Buber—a project has become a lifestyle. Here there is no veil: Laban cannot exact another seven years from me as a Jacob before this consummation.

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community to write a book. Taking up the task of writing that book is the means of discovering that community of support, finding the matrix in which the vision can find its legs and wings. Those who stand out in this community of grace and dialogue:

Long-term supporters: Wanda Johnson, Briana Johnson, Eido Frances Carney, Joseph Hickey-Tiernan, Samuel Torvend, and Florence Sandler.

Dialogical readers: David Chamberlain, Kathleen Byrd, Ted Johnstone, Bruce Johnson, MaryAnn Johnson, Doug Oakman, Jane Maynard, and John Petersen.