GTJ 5:2 (Fall 84) p. 244 Many students of Scripture are so accustomed to looking for the central purpose of a book that they feel that the method proposed here will rob them of the primary objective of looking for the central purpose of a book. If we should not look for purpose of a passage, then for what should we look? In brief, the answer is, we should look for the unifying theme of the book. We should ask what it is that holds the whole book