HH: Here is a comment by Christopher O'Brien, Adjunct Professor of
Anthropology at California State University, who seems to use maximalist
in a broad sense:
http://northstatescience.blogspot.com/2006/11/is-there-biblical-archaeology-some.html
Two observations struck me while reading Hoffmeier's letter and
returning to the original articles that he cites. The first is that I
question whether the whole minimalist/maximalist debate in biblical
archaeology is really a construct of biblical fundamentalism more than
it is a theoretical debate in archaeology. Supposedly "minimalists" see
the Bible as offering little or no history verifiable through
archaeological research. At the other end of the spectrum, "maximalists"
see the Bible as mostly historical, documenting people, places and
events frequently verified by archaeology.
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