In all likelihood, and for better or for worse, the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament is the most interpreted text in the history of the species. Countless generations of Jewish and Christian thinkers have exegeted every single word of scripture, probably no less than a few hundred times each. What is it about this ancient anthology, as opposed to The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, or the Hittite myth The Wrath of Telipinu, that has triggered more than 2,000 years of incessant, frenzied hermeneutic activity? Why are there — as we speak — tens of thousands of seminarians, Yeshiva bokhurs, college professors, and so on, who are devoting their lives to cracking scriptural enigmas? And in light of all the difficulties that it presents, why have so few thrown down their Bibles, thrown up their hands, exclaimed “I can't make any sense of this!”, and bid adieu to Scripture?