"the Bible refuses to tell you, in plain, simple words, what it is about. If you look for such capsule comment, you are bound to be mightily disappointed: Scripture, approached that way, seems only a potpourri of history, myth, poetry, prophecy, and commentary. Second, when it finally does consent to tell you, it insists on using a profusion of images, types, and figures to do the job, which leaves almost as many unsatisfied customers as does its refusal to speak plainly. To be sure, it has a theme, and it is articulated by a logic of the most rigorous sort. But the logic is the logic of images and is unavailable to the literal-minded." Robert Capon