Admittedly also the apologetic, that with great skill brought to light the weaknesses of the Tübingen criticism, could attain no sweeping success; it could not bridge the gulf that yawned between historical narrative portions and particularly the speeches of the older Gospels and those of the Fourth Gospel. It seemed suitable, to attempt it with partition hypotheses,.…77 The partition theorists that would follow were generally dissatisfied with the results they gained. More than once a scholar abandoned