How not to do scholarship – the perils of studying those we disagree with

I trained as a scientist.  Like all scientists, I despised scholars.  I thought that they were just people decorating their prejudices with the results of a library search.  Given time, we all knew, we could do as well or better.  Inspecting the occasional volume of what was sold in Blackwell’s bookshop as “Biblical Scholarship” did … Continue reading How not to do scholarship – the perils of studying those we disagree with