a genre that we call “junk mail,” then she would understand. But this lesson, which has to do with social aspects of reading and writing and how we as readers pick up on clues (what biblical scholars call “form-critical markers”), is typically only learned through experience within a particular social group. For the final example, imagine that Marta watches as I read the Sunday Boston Globe. She clearly observes that the newspaper is comprised of various sections with different layouts, but doesn’t