“hagiographers” and the double authorship of Scripture, one divine and one human, lost their Thomistic speculative context, because Thomistic epistemology was losing ground. Already at the Council it became clear that, due to the lack of monographic studies about the patristic and medieval teaching of inspiration, there was little knowledge about what tradition really said about these matters. At the same time the hardening militancy of critical exegesis, which bracketed or excluded theological issues,