Reminiscences of an Octogenarian

In these memoirs, Professor Metzger's own words put a human face on his monumental scholarly achievements. The wide array of stories and vignettes - from Senator Joseph McCarthy's attack on RSV committee members and Metzger's audiences with the pope to the time Professor Metzger and other members of the NRSV committee had to crawl out of a library window to get to their dinner - offer the reader a personal insight into some of the twentieth century's crucial developments in the text and translation of the Bible.