As I was standing talking to a friend at the Paraclete booth in the book exhibits Saturday at the SBL\/AAR Annual Meetings, I happened to see my former Dean at Trinity seminary, Walt Kaiser, wander into the booth. He did not spot me, I spotted him and here\u2019s what happened: As I was standing talking to a friend at the Paraclete booth in the book exhibits Saturday at the SBL\/AAR Annual Meetings, I happened to see my former Dean at Trinity seminary, Walt Kaiser, wander into the booth. He did not spot me, I spotted him and here\u2019s what happened:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mary"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nHe began to look at each book on each display, moving from one table to another. Nothing seemed to interest him until \u2014 no kidding \u2014 he spotted some copies of The Real Mary<\/em>. Now I was really interested. Would he see it, say \u201cWhat\u2019s McKnight writing about Mary for?,\u201d and move on? Or would he show some interest. I was watching with great interest. He not only spotted it, but he picked it up.
\nThen, after looking at that nice cover, he opened the book and began to make the faces of interest. Then he turned the pages. Lo and behold! He walked around the table as if he might purchase it.
\nThen he moved to the purchase table and said, \u201cThis author was a student of mine.\u201d Then he said, \u201cI\u2019d like to buy it.\u201d Then, pointing at me and blowing my cover, Karen Minster from Paraclete said, \u201cHe\u2019s right there.\u201d Walt looked at me, I said to him, \u201cWhew! Am I glad. I was afraid you\u2019d pick it up and put it down and walk on.\u201d
\nWalt: \u201cYou rascal. You watched me and didn\u2019t say anything until you saw what I did?\u201d Then he gave me a big bear hug and we had a great chat about the good ol\u2019 days.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"