Biblical narratives operate as sophisticated semiotic systems that actively shape moral and epistemological development through carefully crafted gaps in information—a dynamic explored in Meir Sternberg's *The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading* (Indiana University Press, 1985). Employing structuralist methodology, Sternberg reveals how three interwoven codes—ideological, historiographic, and aesthetic—create a cognitive tension between divine omniscience and human limitation. His detailed exegesis of passages like Solomon's judgment and the rape of Dinah demonstrates how narrative sequence and perspective manipulation guide readers' moral evaluations. Through the Bible's omniscient narrator, these strategic informational gaps compel readers toward specific interpretive paths, revealing how the text's very structure reinforces its ideological message. While the application of modern literary criticism to ancient texts raises methodological questions, and some contradictory textual elements receive limited attention, Sternberg's work stands as the most substantial analysis of Biblical literature to date. The study offers valuable reading strategies and interpretive frameworks, though it demands careful attention from readers. This groundbreaking contribution to Biblical literary criticism illuminates how Hebrew narrative achieves its didactic aims through sophisticated structural techniques.