narrative form sometimes contain nonnarrative material within the narrative context (e.g., law in Exodus-Deuteronomy). Some books contain no narrative material at all, but it is not difficult to see that the canon implicitly gives some nonnarrative books (e.g., Psalms, Lamentations) a narrative setting within the story told by the narrative books. In a sense, this is true of the largest category of nonnarrative works in each Testament: prophecy and apostolic letters. (The Hebrew Bible explicitly