Conservative Old
Testament scholars, "biblical maximalists,"
generally accept the historicity of most Old
Testament narratives (save the accounts in Gen
1–11) on confessional grounds, and noted
Egyptologists (e.g., Kenneth Kitchen) argue that
such a belief is not incompatible with the
external evidence. Other scholars (e.g., William
Dever) are somewhere in between:
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