Footnote 5 - The Biblical Minimalists
Avraham Biran, “‘David’ Found at Dan,” BAR 20:02.
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Avraham Biran, “‘David’ Found at Dan,” BAR 20:02.
The Canaanite cities mentioned on the Merneptah Stela are Ashkelon, Gezer and Yano’am; see Frank J. Yurko, “3,200-Year-Old Picture of Israelites Found in Egypt,” BAR 16:05.
See the following two articles in Biblical Archaeology Review, Kenneth A. Kitchen, “The Patriarchal Age: Myth or History?” BAR 21:02; and Ronald S. Hendel, “Finding Historical Memories in the Patriarchal Narratives,” BAR 21:04.
Philip R. Davies, “‘House of David’ Built on Sand: The Sins of the Biblical Maximizers,” BAR 20:04.
Here I resume the discussion in my last two columns of BR. See “Reading an Ancient Book in a Modern World,” BR 12:05, and “The Bible Within the Bible,” BR 13:01.
See Baruch Halpern, “Erasing History—The Minimalist Assault on Ancient Israel,” BR 11:06.
Gabriele Boccacini, “Multiple Judaisms,” BR 11:01.