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See, for instance, Brian Hesse and Paula Wapnish, “Can Pig Bones Be Used for Ethnic Diagnosis in the Ancient Near East?” in Neil Asher Silberman and David Small, eds., The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), pp. 238–270.
See, for instance, Gress, From Plato to Nato; and esp. Alan D. Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science (New York: Picador U.S.A., 1998). For trends specifically in Biblical studies, cf. William A. Beardslee, “Poststructuralist Criticism,” in Stephen R. Haynes and Steven L. McKenzie, eds., To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to Biblical Criticisms and Their Application (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993), pp. 231–235, esp. p. 232 (for neo-pragmatism).
Caricature is one of the revisionist’s favorite devices; see, for instance, Whitelam, Invention, throughout; and esp. Thompson, Mythic Past, which, however, can hardly be called scholarship, since it does not contain a single reference to support any of the countless cavalier assertions that are made. For a brief critique, see Dever, review of The Mythic Past, by Thompson, ReViews, BAR 25:05.
