Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 09:43 AM 2/25/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Jim,
>In  your brief review of the latest BAR, you list four scholars together:
>Lemche, Thompson, Davies, Whitelam.  Do you rank the book by Whitelam (THE
>INVENTION OF ANCIENT ISRAEL) as a work of scholarship comparable to the
>level consistently attained by  the first  three?

Because all four represent what dever characterizes as the "Copenhagen" 
school.
  In what follows you do not give the impression that you like Keith's book.
For my part- I found it revolutionary, extremely insightful, and truly
groundbreaking.  His scholarship- though different in style from Niels and
Tom and Phillip, is just as rigorous in its own way.

Best to you,

Jim
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Jim West, ThD
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