what follows: tension between passages can be fruitful; ambiguities can open a direction for interpretation. Taking the whole book seriously takes nothing away from criticism, but rather makes it historical in a deeper and more extended sense. We can go a step further. The Christian exegete must make good on this most basic claim by making an overarching argument that the book and its interpretation shows an inherent trajectory. The “one like the Son of Man”6 coming to “the Ancient of Days”7 in Dan.