He was a well-known scholar who had published many books and articles on specialized topics on the Hebrew Bible. So why did he, at this particular moment, suddenly stop to think about the reality of God? After a few minutes of reflection, he returned to the text before us, and soon the session was over. But that incident left a deep impression on me. Here was an erudite scholar famous in his own field of biblical studies, yet who evidently hadn’t come to any firm conclusions about the reality of God.