of their interpretation.”1 For example, a map produces one kind of activity, reading a poem another. Beethoven’s scores or the text of King Lear “deliver their meaning in so far as they are ‘brought into play’ through interpretive performance.”2 Just so, suggested Lash, the Bible is a text meant to be performed by Christians. While not denying that biblical commentaries or JTI articles are forms of interpretation, Lash was claiming that they are not the primary form; the heart of scriptural interpretation