<br> Reliable as what? asced a discerning reviewer of the first edition of this little work, by way of a comment on the title. His point, I think, was that we schould be concerned with the reliability of the New Testament as a witness to God's self-revelation in Christ rather than with its reliability as a record of historical fact. For, since Christianity claims to be a historical revelation, it is not irrelevant to look at its foundation documents from the standpoint of historical criticism.