If evangelicals continue to work in isolation or ignorance of this heritage [i.e., evangelical OT biblical scholarship], they shall waste much of their time solving problems already completed by another generation and a situation will obtain which will be similar to that of the days of the last war when scholars working on opposite sides of the battle lines often reduplicated each other’s efforts in total ignorance of what other men were doing because of the conditions of those days.

From “Introduction” by W. C. Kaiser, Jr. in Classical Evangelical Essays in Old Testament Interpretation (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1972).