wary of claiming that the entire Old Testament is ‘story’. Some of it quite clearly is not—the Proverbs, for example, or the Psalms. Then too, the conventions of Hebrew poetry must be given their due, as must poetic licence in other parts of the text. This is particularly important because it was a Hebrew habit to express emotions and feelings by referring to different parts of the body. This imagery is also applied to God in what are known as anthropomorphic figures of speech which, if taken literally,