must go!)? I don’t think it is possible. Some of these claims would still remain. Thus, while we sincerely laud and appreciate Childs’s new emphasis and find many helpful and hopeful signs in it, we believe that it has a serious flaw: the canon has usurped the place of the author in the exegetical procedure. There is one place where canonical concerns must be introduced, however. After we have finished our exegetical work of establishing what, indeed, the author of the paragraph or text under consideration