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This book was way too much fun to write. It was completed while I was a Director’s Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. I am very grateful to Brad Gregory, Meghan Sullivan, Don Stelluto, Carolyn Sherman, Kristian Olsen, and the rest of the NDIAS, for their support and collegiality. Parts of this book were presented in seminar there, and for participating in the stimulating and helpful discussion that followed, I thank Ani Aprahamian, Dylan Belton, Eileen Hunt Botting, Eric Bugyis, Fr. Terrence Ehrman, David Bentley Hart, Faisal Husain, Robert Latiff, Yulia Minets, Cara Ocobock, Matt Ravosa, Phillip Sloan, and Joshua Stuchlik.

For their especially valuable comments on the manuscript I thank Thomas Bolin, Neil Arner, and Sarah Morice Brubaker.

At UNC Charlotte I have benefitted from the wisdom of my co-instructor Joanne Maguire and my colleague Gregg Starrett. The lunchtime discussions with Mark Pizzato, Trevor Pearce, Bill Chu, Ron Lunsford, and Mike Corwin were also both fun and useful in shaping this book.

It has been a pleasure to interact with biblical scholars and theologians over the past few years, and I am particularly intellectually indebted to Celia Deane-Drummond and Agustín Fuentes and the other participants in their stimulating conference, “Humility, Wisdom, and Grace in Deep Time” back in 2017, which resulted in a wonderful volume called Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology. Thanks to my editor at Polity, Jonathan Skerrett, for seeing the manuscript through from beginning to end. Thanks to Karen Strier for decades of insights. For their encouraging notes and comments I thank the reviewers, especially Reviewer #1.

And as always, I am grateful for the support of my wife, Peta Katz, through the creative process and beyond.