 The periodical is held by the Library of Congress and other research libraries.In the introductory article, the editor criticized modern biblical scholarship as "a toothless tiger or worse yet, covert apologetics wearing the Esau-mask of criticism" and advocated a return to the "golden era of bold hypotheses and daring reconstructions associated with the great names of Baur and Tübingen".During the journal's first decade, it was sponsored by The Theological School at Drew University, where associate editor Darrell J. Doughty taught.