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To: alphadog
Er, I beg to differ:

David found at Dan Biblical Archeology Review March/April 1994.

The Biblical Minimalists: Expunging Israel's Past Bible Review June 1997.

Toward the end of the article is an exhaustive debunking of Whitelam's The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History. In the final paragraph he says:

"These issues should not be decided by politically driven scholarship. Whether or not debates over Israel's ancient history have any effect on Israeli-Palestinian relations, the biblical minimalists are guilty precisely of what they accuse mainstream biblical historians of doing: using scholarship as the handmaiden of politics."


53 posted on 12/05/2001 9:14:44 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
The jury is still out "House of David" Built on Sand
95 posted on 12/05/2001 10:44:28 PM PST by anapikoros
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