not one of God’s dark sides,4 and certainly not a divine attribute. The combination of hiddenness and wrath rests, however, on another assumption. The title points to the internal relationship of the two topics. It is essential to the biblical God that “from of old and in many ways, [he] has spoken” (Heb 1:1; cf. Luke 1:55). “YHWH did not wantonly hide himself from Israel, but unwillingly, not from the outset, but in the course of history.”5 His silence, therefore, constitutes a horrifying exception