text and in our desire to get to the end or the point of the story. In this way we will be more observant of the smaller, but important, details of the narrative. It will likewise protect us from overinterpreting the text by filling in the narrative gaps with our own imagination and treating that filler as if it were the same as the text of Scripture. The Elements in Narrative Texts A narrative, by its very nature, “requires a story and a story-teller.”2 The narrator may tell the story in either