"[New Testament] scholarship is sometimes overimpressed with its own judgments about what Paul could, or (especially) could not have said or done." "One can be sure, for example, that if we did not have 1 Corinthians, one of the "assured results" of NT scholarship would be that Paul and his churches new nothing of the Eucharist. Indeed, but for the abuses in the church in Corinth, one can only imagine what other assured results based on silence there might be." -- Gordon D. Fee, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, a Good News Commentary, ed. W. Ward Gasque, Harper & Row, San Franciso, 1984, xxvi, xl.
You can see an example of such scholarship and a response to it in my Dad's latest article. It brings to mind a quote my wife heard on recently on ABC's Time Team: "Archaeology is 10% evidence, 20% supposition, and 70% fairy tales". That should give anyone pause to uncritically accept so-called historical facts before checking them out thoroughly.
