The Future of New Testament Scholarship

The New Testament is not simply a massive innard data waiting for interpreters to impose their will upon it but instead a word of address. Reading your article also reminded me of a review that you wrote years ago when I that I read when I first started my doctoral workYour review of Marcus Bockumill's book Seeing the Word which also is trying to address the nature of the New Testament guild. The flood of secondary tertiary and so on literature that distracts us from the text becomes a sort of encumbrance, he says.