Green goes on to stress that “more necessary than familiarity with ancient peoples, and their cultures, more basic than learning the biblical languages, and more essential than good technique in interpretation are such dispositions and postures as acceptance, devotion, attention and trust. Accordingly, we acknowledge and invite the ongoing work of Scripture’s divine author as the One capable and desirous of authoring a community, the church.”12 It appears that he is suggesting a prioritizing of things