a problem. How do we present and preserve the diversity of this material as the unified word from God to us? How do we organize and combine this diverse literature, which explains our present plight, our future hope, and how to live in the meantime? Clearly there were great collections of material for which sequence was important, and editors worked on individual books. Brevard Childs and James Sanders have called attention to the canonical shape of biblical books, and the tradents responsible for