The Christian Scholars Conference honored the life and work of Dr. Abraham J. Malherbe at its annual conference in 2014. As part of that celebration, David Fleer and Carl Holladay commissioned me to make a presentation regarding Abe’s massive influence on biblical scholarship in Churches of Christ. My research for that presentation consisted of 58 in-person, oral interviews with biblical scholars in Churches of Christ from New England to Los Angeles, from Florida to Seattle, and points in between. I asked each of those scholars the same question: “How have the Churches of Christ, from your earliest experience in that tradition, shaped your vocation of biblical and religious scholarship?” I focused that project around a group of older scholars, most of whom were in their 70s and 80s in 2014 and who, for the most part, earned their degrees from, or taught at, either Harvard or Yale or both. Those 58 interviews are now part of the archival depository in the Center for Restoration Studies at Abilene Christian University, as is the paper I presented at the Christian Scholars Conference in 2014. —Richard T. Hughes