supposed to produce apocalyptic or charismatic activity, there are so many negative instances that one may well wonder why so little has in fact been done to unravel what is specific to the positive instance and not present in the negative. 3.2 The answer to this is simple enough. We do not know what to look for. Nor is it an easy task to choose what might seem to be a likely situation, whether in the field or in the documentary record, and ask why it is or was that something did not happen. Yet