ABSTRACT
I shall select two from among the emphases of the ISS that relate to and support my own interests in scripture. One of them is the place and role of scripture in an adequate textual theory. The second is the relation of scripture not first of all to institutions and their various authorities but to human needs, desires, and constructions generally considered. My text, then, is a directive from Vincent Wimbush’s introduction to Theorizing Scriptures, namely, “excavating the work—and the consequences of such—that we make ‘scriptures’ do for us” (Wimbush 2008: 1).
