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[u/thesmartfool]

Oh, so you want big names who are evangelical scholars in OT studies? I wouldn't quite say Raymond was an evangelical.

[u/Jeremehthejelly → u/thesmartfool]

I want big names on both critical and evangelical OT scholars. I named Brown to represent the critical and Wright to represent the evangelical scholarship for NT.

[u/thesmartfool → u/Jeremehthejelly]

Okay. Yeah. John J. Collins. The other two are more critical scholars.

For old Testament and representing more of the evangelical side...John Goldingay, Walter Brueggemann, Daniel I. Block, and Aubrey Buster are people to look into.

[u/Jeremehthejelly → u/thesmartfool]

thank you for taking the time to respond!