The Scripture emerged from within the heart of a living subject — the pilgrim people of God — and lives within this same subject. ...individual author or group of authors ... are not autonomous ... they form part of ... the "people of God," ... the deeper "author" of the Scriptures. ...[Likewise, this people ... knows that it is led, and spoken to, by God himself, who — through men and their humanity — is at the deepest level the one speaking.