Colloquium Quotable Quotes

Well, the colloquium on Baptist hermenutics is over... Helen and I are very tired!
Lots and lots of good stuff, and one or two laughs...
Some anonymised (to protect the innocent) quotes:

• “There is nothing like having the Bible at one’s disposal to foster the idea that the Bible is at one’s disposal.”
• “Like a good wine I don’t travel very well – It stirs up the sediment and makes me bitter.”
• “I could more easily accept the Pope as the vicar of Christ on earth, than the Queen of England as the head of the Church in England.”
• “In Wheeler Robinson’s last days in his nursing home, he refused to speak anything but Hebrew, in the belief that he was already in Heaven.”
• “Brevard Childs wrote his Old Testament Theology because he got so bored in lectures with the historical critical method that he thought, ‘Blow it! Let’s just look at the text!’”
• “The greatest contribution of biblical criticism has been to demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that these texts are composite in nature, that is they are vibrant, alive, and living…”
• “I’ve always said it must be very unpleasant to be a textual gloss: Conservative scholars deny you exist, while liberal scholars dismiss you with a curl of the lip as a ‘mere gloss’”