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:
This is a misrepresentation of Biblical maximalists.s
Biblical maximalists generally refers to scholars
who hold to the accuracy of the Bible in terms of
events during the United Monarchy, if such a
period indeed existed.
Dever is considered a
maximalist. But thanks for giving a good live
example of how discussions that somehow
touch on issues of biblical historicity inevitably
end up having to defend the positions on biblical
historicity that scholarship has adopted for some
time now.
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