critically assessing the baggage that one may bring along with his or her study of the Scriptures. We must not be shy in our day of laying claim to the possibility of holding a ‘correct’ or ‘objective meaning’ or interpretation of the text of Scripture, for to deny that one can have a correct or objective meaning is objectively to state that there is none to be had! It is like saying, as one of my university professors said so blatantly, ‘There are no absolutes!’ When I asked him as casually as I