related to concerns not their own or played off against each other. Despite all the many things that can be done with texts, the disciplines of careful philologically- and conceptually-alert reading remain foundational, not least for those who seek to read the Old Testament as Scripture. I have argued that both of the basic issues of this chapter—the relational and responsive nature of God (“repentance”), and the unswerving faithfulness of God to those whom He calls (“non-repentance”)—are not only