“The composers of biblical prose,” wrote author and scholar Gregory Mobley, “appended the simplest conjunction, ‘and,’ to a line, gave it a little extra vocalization . . . doubled the initial consonant of the word to which the ‘and’ was attached, and voila: the Biblical Hebrew ‘and then.’ ‘There was light and then God saw that the light was good and then there was evening and then there was morning, and then and then and then,’ before you know it, you are standing with Moses on Mount Nebo at the end of Deuteronomy, light-years from when God first peered over the abyss.”1
