have told us” of God’s past deeds (Ps 44:1; 78:3) in fulfillment of Moses’ command in his farewell discourse to “remember the days of old … ask your father, and he will show you” (Deut 32:7 RSV). Fathers simply held a position of authority in ancient cultures that is quite foreign to most modern ones. We are also given a sense of the dignity and worth that biblical cultures attach to a father’s role. Psalm 127:4–5 is the key passage, with its comparison of a father’s children to arrows and its declaration