“I’ve read the word shibboleth a hundred times, written it a few, and probably even said it myself, but I had never understood it until then [reading the story in the book of Judges]. It was a tiny but thrilling moment when my world came alive, when a word that had just been a word suddenly meant something to me. And something like that happened to me five, 10, 50 times a day when I was Bible-reading.”