I could not have completed the history of research in the present work without the assistance of several persons and institutions. I wish especially to thank Sarah Nixon and her assistants in the Interlibrary Loan office at Appalachian State University. I have lost track of the number of books and articles that they obtained for me. I owe thanks also to the Southern Regional Education Board for a research travel grant that enabled me to visit the rare book collections at several major libraries. My appreciation goes to those libraries as well: the Library of Congress, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John K. Mullen Denver Memorial Library of Catholic University of America, the Krauth Memorial Library of Lutheran Theological Seminary, the Van Pelt Library of the University of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary, the New York Public Library, and the Divinity Library of Duke University. Finally I wish to thank Louisiana State University for a Summer Research Stipend that gave me the time to complete this book.

Chapter 8, a slightly modified form of “The Nontitular Son of Man: A History and Critique,” NTS 40 (1994) 504–21, has been used with permission.