Shunned?

Letter to the Editors

I was glad to see Bill Wylie-Kellermann’s tribute to Walter Wink (“Struggling to Become Human,” August 2014), but with one qualification. Bill is right that Wink was “denied tenure,” but he was not “academically shunned.” Wink was highly regarded, participated fully in the Society of Biblical Literature, and was respected and taken seriously by colleagues. I counted him as  a friend, but also as a valued scholarly colleague. We have learned much from him.

Walter Brueggemann
Cincinnati, Ohio

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