and exegetical concern to identify ever more precisely those characteristics that are peculiar to the biblical texts,”22 we will find ourselves face to face with, as Brueggemann puts it, “a singular coherent faith articulation in the text.” At its center, I contend, will be the glory of God in salvation through judgment. Denny Burk makes the point that scientific study “makes empirically testable predictions” and that theories “can only be tested by attempts to falsify” them.23 In this book, I am