None of this means that we think the Bible to have nothing to do with history. It simply means that, by and large, we are not addressing historical questions directly. We have other fish to fry. Some scholars have tried to argue recently that for interpretation to be truly liberating, it must be anchored in an historical analysis (Wimbush 1989 ¶D). Without dismissing the power in that argument, we doubt that it is necessarily true—from both theoretical and practical points of view. As far as practice