Michael W. Holmes is a very reliable author. He has a Ph.D from Princeton in Theological seminary and has been involved in the biblical studies department at Better University for many years. It was fairly easy to find his background and education since he is a professor because that means that that information is on the universities website. Professor Holmes has an area of specialization in the New Testament. He does teach at an Evangelical school, which could provide room for biases, since not all beliefs are the same throughout christianity.
Another scholar I found was Scot McKnight. He has a Ph.D from the University of Nottingham and he is also a New Testament scholar. I looked for “New Testament Scholar” on google scholar. His information that I found kind of lines up with Holmes’ but the topic was not as narrow. McKnight talks about how people have reduced the Bible to solely salvation Scriptures, which is similar to what Holmes’ claims is happening with the canon, that its becoming too broad.
Oxford University Press Published Michael Holmes’ work. This proves that it obviously went through a lot of scrutiny to get approved and pushed through to be published.
Overall, I learned more about finding the background to authors to help prove reliability. I also learned about biases. I always thought to avoid biases but I learned that it is inevitable and that we, as readers, just have to realize these by looking into their backgrounds and keeping that in mind.