Notions of the Creation, Fall, and Apocalypse (end to haunt any thinking about encyclopaedias and knowledge. Why are these terms of beginning and ending so important? Strictly speaking, the Bible does not in itsdf form an encyclopaedia; nonetheless, the Old and New Teslaments. bounded by the Creation and the Apocalypse, possess a circularity or completion motivating the encyclopaedic project in general. It is our interpretation of the Bible as the Book containing all there is, that is important here. As A and Z, Alpha and Omega, Creation/Fall and Apocalypse form the limits of human history, so the encyclopaedia, attempting to bound human knowledge, must return incessantly to these traditional terns of loss and complelion.23