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Out of context: Reply #284
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The group known as the Bible minimalists, are, according to yesterdays reading of Britannica, who believe that the Bible is based on real historical places and contains historical people, but much of it (which is patently unprovable) are mythical and allegorical stories. NOT, as you say – ““biblical minimalists” sees little or no correlation between archaeological and biblical evidence and thus no reliable history in the Hebrew Bible”. That was an interesting attempt at your part to put the skeptics at extremes in order to try and discredit them. There aren’t extremes here.
Also I would advise you to look up the term “post-modernist” before making ridiculous statements like this one “Leading spokesmen among the minimalists are Thomas L. Thompson and Niels P. Lemche of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, with like-minded, postmodernist colleagues in both the East and the West.” Just because an academic disagrees with your position, does not make him/her a post-modernist.
Anyways. You’re next line of argument is pretty incredulous. Or rather, the argument you copy and pasted is pretty increduluos. “This attack on Old Testament Scripture is of a full-fledged, no-holds-barred variety. Such extreme views invite dismissal of this assault as the work of a cadre of sensation-seeking quasi scholars whose radical revisionism almost guarantees attention in the media.” I think it is sufficient for me to quote you here, rather than actually explain how all the meandering bullshit you spout is lacking in academic objectivity and is nothing more than carefully worded name-calling. Then you wonder why people laugh at you and react with anger.