When he called Israel Finkelstein a minimalist! HA! Either Stephen isn’t familiar with minimalists or he hasn’t read much of Finkelstein!!! Finkelstein can HARDLY be called a minimalist. Rather than reading Bolen’s take on Finkelstein’s essay Stephen would be better served to read Finkelstein’s work for himself. And a lot of it.
[NB- I like Stephen. He’s just wrong with his label of I.F.]
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Okay, so perhaps he’s not a radical-minimalist… But he certainly follows the agenda.
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no, no he doesn’t. just because someone questions chronology and has issues with claims made by other , more conservative, archaeologists doesn’t mean their a minimalist.
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like people calling barth neo-orthodox, or jim west safe around kittens.
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i am allergic…
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Hence the danger. 🙂
Peace,
-Steve
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