teach us that there is no monolithic unity to scripture. The writers were human beings whose particularities and weaknesses—among other things—marked all that they had to say. Yet that is not to say that, as happened with the most rationalistic of the critics, we may treat them as ignorant primitives, prescientific mythologizers only dimly aware of the world in which they lived. One of the things that we may gladly learn from some of the more recent work of the biblical specialists is the individuality