[kawaii]

This is a excellent question--thanks for asking it. I have not explicitly defined the term "fundamentalist" in the article, but the answer is clarified by the "faith statements" and related material that I quote from the different "educational institutions" involved--in particular, the words that I put in bold in some of the quotes, e.g.: "the inerrancy of scripture"; "the Christian faith as it was originally conceived"; "the message of Jesus in its original setting"; "the original first-century Church ... to be followed literally as mandatory practice today"; opposition to "creedal formulations [that go] beyond the Bible itself," etc. The question, of course, is whether the term "evangelical" would be more appropriate. The lines are not always clear, but on account of the "foundational" nature of the various faith statements, I thought "fundamentalist" was the most accurate term.

So these folks would not be confused with Traditionalist Christians?

[Charles Gadda]

My understanding is that “traditionalist Christians” is a general term used to refer to mainstream groups such as Catholics and Baptists. The “Holy Land” organizations involved here appear to have a very particular focus on finding the “true,” i.e., “original,” Jesus (whence their interest in the “Essenes” and the Dead Sea Scrolls), a truth and an originality from which they believe traditional “creedal formulations” have departed. At any rate my basic aim is not to impose a strict definition or attach a label to these organizations, but to point to the issues raised by their involvement in this museum exhibit and by the allocation of money from the Spielberg foundation to a graduate student associated with one of them.