to respond by embracing this view of God, trusting its truth, and allowing it to transform our lives. As Richard Hays notes, God is not “a concept subject to general philosophical elucidation but a ‘person,’ an agent known through the complex unfolding of his narrative identity—and only so.”1 How many gods are there? It is commonplace for modern readers to believe that the main difference between Israel and its neighbors was that Israel worshiped only one God, while the rest