Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 26/03/2007 17:15, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> Dear All, ...
>
>   
It seems to me that "minimalist" and "maximalist" must refer 
respectively to people who hold a minimum or a maximum amount of the 
Bible to be historically true. So presumably a true minimalist finds 
nothing of historical value in the Bible, whereas a true maximalist must 
accept it all as literally true, even down to the six day creation 6000 
or so years ago. Any position between these two, in my opinion, cannot 
properly be described as either "minimalist" or "maximalist", and if 
these terms are used this is probably a matter of rhetorical and 
probably pejorative exaggeration. So it probably isn't very helpful to 
use these terms on this list.

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