of who God is—his character, his name, his identity, his actions, his ways. To understand the Bible as Scripture, then, is to approach it with a posture of humility, teachability, and submission, not because the Bible itself is magical or glows in the dark, but because it faithfully does what no other speech or writing in the world does fully: it reveals the Triune God of the universe. It is the revelation of God himself in verbal form. And this calls for a response. Erich Auerbach writes, “The world