Eric Voegelin, Order and History, vol. 1, Israel and Revelation (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1956). See my review essay, “Politics and the Transcendent: Voegelin’s Philosophical and Theological Exposition of the Testament in the Context of the Ancient Near East,” The Political Science Reviewer 1 (fall 1971), pp. 1–29; revised and updated version in Stephen A. McKnight, Eric Voegelin’s Search for Order (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1978), pp. 62–100.