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On history, theology and scholarly method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2011

Christopher A. Beeley*
Affiliation:
Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, [email protected]

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It is not every day that one receives such a review of one's work! A colleague who heard these remarks delivered orally reminded me of the old saying that the next best thing to having a noble friend is to have a noble enemy, but I don't think it applies here. Volker Drecoll is hardly an enemy, although he does show some accomplishment at playing the role of the querulous friend! I am grateful to Professor Drecoll not only for travelling from Tübingen to attend the book review panel at the 2009 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in New Orleans, where this exchange first took place, but also for his lengthy and exacting challenge of my work.

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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 2011

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1 Thanks also to Mark Weedman for organising the panel, to Valerie Karras and Warren Smith for their participation, and to Iain Torrance for inviting Professor Drecoll and me to publish our exchange in the Scottish Journal of Theology.