Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il>]

Dave Washburn wrote:

NPL wrote:

Scholarship
> is really about tearing down accepted mainstream ideas, and most advanced
> theories become maintream some day or the other.

According to whom?  This does not exactly seem like a
mainstream definition of scholarship to me.
 

Actually, what Nils Peter gave is a definition of deconstructionism, or
postmodernism.
In Israel, we also call it "slaughtering sacred cows", and those who
apply these methods to the history of Zionism are called "New Historians"
in the current Israeli parlance.

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Jonathan D. Safren
Dept. of Biblical Studies
Beit Berl College
Beit Berl Post Office 44905
Israel