largely defensive, and hermeneutics was not seen as a problem. It is fair to say that at the center of whatever discussion did take place were the questions of authorship and historicity, since these issues were most germane to the authenticity and authority of the biblical texts. But then came several books like the one generated by the aforementioned symposium. What caused the change? Over the past fifty years or so remarkable growth has occurred in the industry of biblical scholarship on all sides,