Last Monday, when Peter Head, Peter Gurry, and yours truly were having a good old conversation with the Münster folk deep in the heart of the Institute itself, we were playing around with the CBGM as a universal method for the past and present. I claimed that the true CBGM is practiced at Tyndale House, since a correct interpretation of the abbreviation yields 'Coffee Based Greek Method'.
Not to be outdone, our German colleagues retorted that the CBGM as the Coherence Based Genealogical Method had already an earlier incarnation in the days of Kurt Aland himself when the approach was pretty much the 'Cigar Based Genealogical Method'. There are even rumours that the smoke detectors in the strictly non-smoking building were adjusted to tolerate Kurt Aland's persistent flaunting of the rules. Wonderful!
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Not to be outdone, our German colleagues retorted that the CBGM as the Coherence Based Genealogical Method had already an earlier incarnation in the days of Kurt Aland himself when the approach was pretty much the 'Cigar Based Genealogical Method'. There are even rumours that the smoke detectors in the strictly non-smoking building were adjusted to tolerate Kurt Aland's persistent flaunting of the rules. Wonderful!
