Opinions vary, but Mark Noll has helpfully schematized the range of perspectives on historical criticism within the evangelical camp. He makes a major division between ‘critical anti-criticism’ and ‘believing criticism’.2 The critical anti-critics, Noll explains, are inerrantists whose academic research engages with the broader academy in an apologetic endeavour to protect traditional interpretations of Scripture; critical anti-critics typically consider inerrancy to be the epistemological foundation