had devolved into various subspecialties, such that an organic and integrated presentation of the biblical witness might be had once again. History, literary analysis, text criticism, Old and New Testaments, the earlier history of interpretation—all these facets were brought back onto a single field of play by a figure whose competence was only slightly, if at all, outmatched by the ambition needed for such an undertaking. And history bore out the truth of that, for the next forty years would show