or they are to be kept separate, in which case “the Midianites seem to appear just in time to steal even this brief success from the brothers.”53 More than Campbell and O’Brien, Humphreys finds meaning in the presence of multiple possibilities: “As the text now stands, syntactical ambiguity signals a breakdown in the ability of the brothers fully to shape events.”54 No real solution to the problem is offered here—just a way of making sense of it. E. J. Revell also sees the alternation of names as