and the enemies of the Bible can never shake its divine authority unless they be fatally strengthened by our hypocrisies, our errors, and our sins.10 The history of how the Bible has been interpreted throughout the history of the church thus becomes at best a distraction, a useless habit of ransacking the past for spiritual guidance to the neglect of the scientific analysis and reconstruction of the Bible itself. It was the aim of Farrar and his colleagues to liberate the Bible from its churchly