possible. To be sure, such a perspective does not leave unchallenged our most avid ideological commitments, but the foregoing of such passions for the sake of shared attentiveness to the text is surely a high priority in our current scene of interpretation. In the end, scripture is not a contest to see who can prevail in interpretation. It is, rather, an address that offers a “newness” and a “strangeness” that are out beyond all of our pet projects. It is urgent, even if difficult to remember that