What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel (Biblia.com)

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For centuries, the Hebrew Bible has been the fountainhead of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Today, however, the entire biblical tradition, including its historical veracity, is being challenged. Leading this challenge is a group of scholars described as the “minimalist” or “revisionist” school of biblical studies, which charges that the Hebrew Bible is largely pious fiction, that its writers and...

1. Always attack the Establishment on principle, and in the name of “revolutionary progress.” Set in motion a counter-culture, even if it means repudiating your own earlier works, but pretending that you have not done so. 2. Pose a set of convenient false issues; create an imagined dichotomy between positions; polarize the discussion. 3. Reject consensus scholarship; deplore the middle ground; carry the argument to its most extreme; celebrate the bizarre, since it gets attention. 4. Caricature

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