Ephraim Radner's comment was pretty well buried among the other responses to Saturday's news. (That list has been updated today.) I post it here because it's heartfelt and colorful. It also tracks with with Seitz's comment about BTONT's readership, from yesterday.

I am certain of Brevard Childs’ rest with the saints.  But he will be missed in a great way.  There have been and are Old Testament scholars of enormous gifts and contributions.  But Childs almost single-handedly—single-mindedly and single-heartedly—wrested serious Biblical studies away from the diseased grip of historical-critical irrelevance, with its fragmenting of the divine text, with respect to Scripture’s reality as the Word of God. The movement of renewal he inititiated is still in its infancy, and its future for the Christian faith and Church still uncharted. I pray we may be worthy of the legacy he has left. But I would not be surprised if, when histories are written of Scriptural scholarship, he is not viewed as among the greatest in the last 50 years.  That he fulfilled his vocation while being a man of humble faith, prayer, and warm affection for students and colleagues is a testimony to the marvelous grace of God.  May the Lord bless him in His Kingdom, and may our hearts be thankful.

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