evil” (Habakkuk 1:13). God’s perfection is appalling because it “plumbs” (Amos 7:7–8) the depths of an imperfection distributed evenly among all human beings. Today it is common to want to discern in texts, and certainly in the Bible, a “meta-narrative,” a big idea or overarching theme. Some readers take the idea of “covenant,” which is in the domain of law, as the meta-narrative of Scripture. Others have seized on “promise and fulfillment” as the grand theme. Others take “creation, fall, and redemption”