This post is for any of my fellow students in Dr. Dan McCartney’s “Gospels” class. The rest of you should pass on by, lest ye shake your heads in scoffing at what seminary students think of as “fun.”

Scot McKnight spoke about a game he and his classmates used to play. The winner would be the one who knew the meaning of the most initials from the names of New Testament scholars. Here’s his list:

C.H. Dodd
C.F.D. Moule
T.W. Manson
G.R. Beasley-Murray
W.G. Kümmel
C.K. Barrett
F.F. Bruce
H.J. Cadbury
G.B. Caird
F.C. Baur
F.C. Burkitt
W.D. Davies
F.C. Grant
R.M. Grant
J.G. Herder
F.J.A. Hort
J.B. Lightfoot
B.F. Westcott
R.H. Lightfoot
H.A.W. Meyer
A.D. Nock
F.D.E. Schleiermacher
D.F. Strauss
L.C.F. von Tischendorf
J.J. Wettstein

We always had some contemporaries too:

J.R.W. Stott (I know, he’s a pastor but he wrote NT books, too)
E.P. Sanders
J.D.G. Dunn

I commented on his blog that his list looks like an outline of my notes from the first few Gospels classes. What is it with scholars going by initials, anyway?

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