Anthony le Donne on “What makes a good Biblical Scholar or Theologian?”

Short answer: Honesty.

Honesty on two levels. Honesty with the material (be it text, or topic, or person) under discussion.

And honest self-awareness that acknowledges the scholar’s biases, motives, programs, and the systems of power or ideology to which s/he is beholden.

~Anthony le Donne, Associate Professor of New Testament, United Theological Seminary