Geza Vermes stated: "Owing to the colossal influence of Bultmann on German, and subsequently through his former students on North American, New Testament learning, the clock of real historical research stopped for half a century" and that it started again only after that influence had ended.
”Geza Vermes说：“由于布尔特曼对德国人的巨大影响，以及随后他的前学生对北美的影响，对新约研究的真正历史研究停止了半个世纪”，并且只有在它们的影响结束后才再次开始。