work on the Twelve as a whole hardly disputes the historical character of the material and its gradual development into the form in which we now have it. Perhaps the question can most fairly be put as one of proper balance and proportion: how does the coherence of the witness as a whole also require an inquiry at the very basic level assumed by an introduction? If the logic of the whole is granted as crucial, then can the legitimacy of taking the witness apart and reassigning it, in parts and in