Biblical authors use characters as vehicles for their message primarily through showing rather than telling. Narrators rarely make comments in biblical narrative, and when they do, it’s with small details or brief phrases. Biblical authors give us the trace of a character but we have to fill in the rest based on the little we know. The minimalist policy is very intentional. It forces us, the readers, to participate in the making of meaning. Biblical authors use the setting as a tool in biblical narratives to evoke memories and emotions and to generate expectations about what could happen in the story.