In my previous post I talked about how I chose a scholarly-sounding title for my scholarly book on the use of literary forgery in the early Christian tradition.   All of the titles for my scholarly books are ones that I’ve chosen, and they are all meant to signal that the book is … scholarly. A number of my scholarly titles have been very straightforward – informative but not scintillating (and not meant to be scintillating).   My first attempt at a title was for my dissertation, and I realized afterward that there was a bit of a problem with it.   I wrote the dissertation at Princeton Theological Seminary under Bruce Metzger, who was (and is) without peer, in my opinion and everyone else’s, as the leading NT textual scholar America has ever produced.   It was an amazing and humbling experience working under him.   I was his final doctoral student, and he and I became very close. The dissertation topic was one he suggested to me.  It involved combing through the newly discovered Old Testament commentaries of [...]