How I Learned To Write for a General Audience

It is time — after many fits, starts, and interruptions — to bring this thread to a close, the thread that started with my saying I wanted to explain why I was in a better position to write trade books (for a general audience) than most of my peers who were with me in my New Testament PhD program and others in the guild of New Testament studies.

I won’t re-discuss all the background I gave over a long series of posts, but I do need to summarize the one most important point. Almost everyone I...