with my wife, Kris, where I combined vacation and exploration with morning reading and writing. During that time, I read Hans Boersma’s Scripture as Real Presence. I was mesmerized by his method and claims, I was curious what it all meant, and I worried what would become of the method I use in New Testament studies. I wrote to Hans to tell him I appreciated his book and asked him whether he thought the apostle Paul’s reading of the Old Testament was “sacramental.” He wrote back from his sabbatical