as baseball, basketball, or soccer.2 In each case, if you want to play the game, you must first acquaint yourself with the rules. Conversely, if you don’t know the rules of a given game, you will most likely be lost and be unable to follow a game, much less participate in it.3 It is similar with interpreting the various genres of Scripture: in order to pick up the fine nuances conveyed by the biblical text, we must learn the “rules” that guide the interpretation of that particular biblical genre.