Most notably, he was known as a Bible scholar and teacher.
"In burying a 7-year-old boy and a quiet Bible scholar, did we bury decency too?"
He's no Bible scholar, he says, and he doesn't align himself with a particular church.
Bible scholars may well question the need for such novelty.
However, this work remained unpublished, in manuscript form, and was known only to his family and Bible scholars.
The lifespans given cause problems of chronology for Bible scholars, as the following quotation shows.
On the jacket of his book, Smith is called a "well known Bible scholar and prophecy teacher."
You don't have to be a Bible scholar to understand that.
They might do better to turn to Bible scholars, too.
This claim has always been unacceptable to most Bible scholars.