NT scholarship is not quite like the histories tend to present it. It has not been the unfolding triumph of objective "critical" or "historical" thinkers over less progressive and dogmatically biased "theological" interests. This volume brings the ascendant Baur-Wrede-Bultmann line of analysis into dialogue with the "salvation-historical" perspective, uncovering a line of inquiry that was significant in the past and may prove promising in the future. A timely reassessment.