It is very different from the way in which the Jews came to speak of the remote majesty of their one God, the all-powerful creator, who (at relentless length) angrily reminded the afflicted Job how little a lone created being like him understood divine purposes; who dismissed Moses’s question ‘What is your name?’ with a terrifying cosmic growl out of a burning bush in the desert, ‘I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE’.6 The name of the God of Israel is No Name.
