right. On that side of the equation are scholars who ignore the complexities of the text’s character, the distance of millennia, and the attendant differences between our own setting and that of every biblical text. Armed with certainty and a commitment to making Scripture speak to the contemporary believer, all they actually accomplish is the naïve, if not cynical credentialing of their own views. There is, however, a fundamentalism of the left. It is often populated by unrecovered fundamentalists