In his recent book, Deeper Exegesis, Peter Leithart suggests that texts are analogous to events. The analogy holds, he says, because events, like texts, change over time. What one text meant in one context is different to what it means when read at a different time. Events are similar, according to Leithart, they are not static, but subject to change over time as new properties are added to them. Although interpretation of text changes over time, I think it is a mistake to suggest texts are like events because they change over time. Events are ontologically slippery, but the view espoused by Leithart may actually negate some pretty basic views Leithart would hold as a Christian, particularly the nature of a human being. Just what is an event? Events happen, take place, occur or fail to do so. The popular view is that an event is a entity made up of particulars, a time and a set of properties (Kim, 1980). In contrast, David Weberman, from whom Leithart gets his view, sugg...