Part I: Creation now and then -- Mystery of the missing chaos -- "Floods of truth": sex, love and loathing of the deep -- Part II: Orthodoxies of nothing -- "Tears of Achamoth": the fathers' ex nihilo -- "Mother most dear": Augustine's dark secrets -- "Sterile waters": Barth's nothingness that is -- Part III: Monsters of hermeneutics -- "Sea of heteroglossia": return of the biblical chaos -- "Recesses of the deep": Job's comi-cosmic epiphany -- "Leviathanic revelations": Melville's hermenautical journey -- Part IV: Creatio ex profundis -- Bottomless surface: when beginning bereshit -- The pluri-singularity of creation: created God bara elohim -- Strange attractions: formless and void tohu vabohu -- Docta ignorantia: darkness on the face pne choshekh -- Ocean of divinity: deep tehom -- Pneumatic foam: spirit vibrating ruach elohim merahephet