this is not just sleeping on the job—this is someone who is ‘out for the count’!29 Alter’s perceptive literary studies of the Bible prove his point that if biblical scholars would widen the angle of their vision they might see something that astounds them: The biblical text may not be the whole cloth imagined by premodern Judeo-Christian tradition, but the confused textual patchwork that scholarship has found to displace such earlier views may prove upon further scrutiny to be purposeful pattern