JETS 50:1 (March 2007) p. 96 in the giving of Scripture and in its modern reception. How will it affect our hermeneutical approach? God in his providence does take up the human author. He speaks to people back then and there in the past, and that fact can now be the basis for our receiving light from reflection on the past and its environment. But there are notable limitations. God created each human author in his own image. We cannot expect to understand