the author thought specifically of the Trinity in using this expression, or that the earliest Israelite readers read the text in such a way, for the Trinity is only clearly revealed in the NT. Recent developments in hermeneutics, however, have rightly corrected an overemphasis on authorial intent.16 Interpreters of sacred Scripture must also consider the canonical shape of the Scriptures as a whole, which is to say that we must also take into account the divine author of Scripture.17 Nor does appeal