MoJ and the Bible

While Rick was observing the occasion of our 5,000th post, I was on my annual pilgrimage to an evangelical Bible conference in northwest Iowa.  Devoting a week of vacation to learning more about the Bible with 1,000 other people might be a distinctly evangelical phenomenon, but it gives me a different frame of reference for reflecting on the MoJ experience thus far.  I am struck by the infrequency with which we discuss scripture in formulating Catholic legal theory -- indeed, I would venture to say that we could count on one hand the number of MoJ posts that have delved into the substance of particular Bible passages.  I have recently read Regent law prof (and MoJ-friend) Michael Schutt's wonderful new book Redeeming Law: Christian Calling and the Legal Profession, which is full of Bible references.  So why hasn't the Catholic legal theory project made more space for the Bible?  Is it because the Church's social teaching has already incorporated the biblical narrative, making our explicit appeal to scripture superfluous?  Is it because we don't know the Bible well enough to bring it to bear on our legal analysis?  Or is it something else?