between their story-quality and their historical-representative-quality that if one suffered, as their historical character did, the whole notion was in danger of collapse. However, this state of affairs has made the Bible’s primacy parasitic upon its historical credibility. In Frei’s opinion, this mechanism of the recovery of the historical link rested on a fundamental methodological mistake: the confusion between the meaning and the truth of the story. Thus, on the one hand, conservatives attempted