be ready to give an answer about what really happened within history and how, within the historian’s own proper discipline, we can know such a thing with the kind of ‘knowledge’ appropriate to, and available within, historical research. I would go further. In addressing the question, we might discover things about what scripture is saying which our own traditions had conveniently screened out. Perhaps it is only under pressure from our cultured despisers that we will get down to the task we should