Pentateuch and the prophetic corpus that follows. Such a canonical arrangement, it will be recognized, is in tension with what has become the accepted critical judgment that the prophetic corpus in fact is antecedent to the formation of the Pentateuch in the sixth-fifth centuries BCE.18 While acknowledging the force of that critical judgment, it is not unreasonable to proceed here on the basis of the canonical arrangement, recognizing that I am engaged in a post-critical interpretation that is not