The Bible after Babel Quotes

“See Rudolf Smend, "Julius Wellhausen and His Prolegomena to the History of Israel," Semeia 25 (1982): 1-20. On 5 April 1882, he wrote to the Prussian Minister of Culture: "I became a theologian because the scientific treatment of the Bible interested me; only gradually did I come to understand that a professor of theology also has the practical task of preparing the students for service in the Protestant Church, and that I am not adequate to this practical task, but that instead despite all caution on my own part I make my hearers unfit for their office" (6).”
― John J. Collins, The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age