personality, and of specific details of the words and actions of that personality, an impression that has produced scores of studies for both the specialist and the nonspecialist, of Jrm’s view, or Jrm’s role, in one respect or another (see the Bibliography). On the other hand a variety of considerations emerging out of the material of the book suggests that that naive view is untenable. I offer three such considerations here. (1) There is the general awareness that biblical material is gathered by a community,