“Alice and Humpty-Dumpty’s differing uses of glory illustrate the difference between what Saussure called langue and parole, or language and speech. “Langue refers to the system of rules and conventions which is independent of, and pre-exists, individual users; parole refers to its use in particular instances.”28 The question that follows is whether parole is limited to langue or whether it has the capacity to transform langue. The importance of this question will be recognizable in our examination of the Old Testament below.”