Jabez may tell us more about contemporary American evangelicalism than about the accuracy of Wilkinson’s interpretation of Jabez’s original prayer. How painful! My seminary hermeneutics professor, Walter Kaiser, offered us an alternative explanation of much popular interpretation of Scripture: “Wonderful things in the Bible I see, most of them put there by you or by me!” He admonished us to always “keep our fingers on the text” and to become “Berean” Christians who “examined the scriptures every