does not contain an essential, descriptive component in which Old and New Testament specialists continue to make clear “the manifold testimony of the Bible.” Any new approach to the discipline must extend and indeed develop the Enlightenment’s discovery that the task of the responsible exegete is to hear each testament’s own voice, and both to recognize and pursue the nature of the Bible’s diversity. However, an important post-Enlightenment correction is needed which rejects the widespread historicist’s