tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post112821654940786317..comments2024-03-12T17:34:02.225-04:00Comments on NT Blog: Bird's Top 25 NT ScholarsMark Goodacrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05115370166754797529noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-1128362112696630562005-10-03T13:55:00.000-04:002005-10-03T13:55:00.000-04:00Going with the test of time approach H. Alford and...Going with the test of time approach H. Alford and H.A.W. Meyer both continue to cited. They were neither existentialists nor post-structuralists so for some dull reading but for the same reason their insights are still valuable whereas existentialism is a fossil and post-structuralism is becoming overripe.C. Stirling Bartholomewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03571440237755902925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-1128287921825172612005-10-02T17:18:00.000-04:002005-10-02T17:18:00.000-04:00Mark,Fair enough comments. Esp. guys like Ehrman,...Mark,<BR/>Fair enough comments. Esp. guys like Ehrman, Crossan, etc. I knew I wouldn't please everyone :-) Feel free to compile your own list! I like Christopher's comments, sometimes sobriety counts just as much as innovation.Michael F. Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09713482855679578651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-1128254107989841542005-10-02T07:55:00.000-04:002005-10-02T07:55:00.000-04:00I suppose I would also use the test of time as a c...I suppose I would also use the test of time as a criterion. For example there are scholars (did anyone mention Bultmann) who stimulate the imagination continually, yet are proven spectacularly wrong. By any reckoning, truth and accuracy must rank higher than stimulating the imagination. Overuse of the second criterion would lead to promotion of mavericks, often justly, and also often unjustly. <BR/>But the 'stimulus of imagination' criterion is also highly important: geniuses, people who can think outside the box, precious people who dont just accept the prevailing paradigms. If one were to relegate e.g. Bruce and Marshall (and various other Scottish/Irish Celts, Crossan excepted?), it could be for lack of originality. Yet lack of originality can sometimes mask sane judgment and flight from over-promotion of one's own new ideas. So Bruce might just get back in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759844.post-1128228476095585202005-10-02T00:47:00.000-04:002005-10-02T00:47:00.000-04:00Westcott and Hort have to be up there too. Everyb...Westcott and Hort have to be up there too. Everybody is still using their text (basically) of the NT.Stephen C. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18239379955876245197noreply@blogger.com