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Philip R. Davies, “‘House of David’ Built on Sand: The Sins of the Biblical Maximizers,” BAR 20:04.
See the following two articles in Biblical Archaeology Review, Kenneth A. Kitchen, “The Patriarchal Age: Myth or History?” BAR 21:02; and Ronald S. Hendel, “Finding Historical Memories in the Patriarchal Narratives,” BAR 21:04.
See the following articles in Biblical Archaeology Review: Bryant Wood, “Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho? A New Look at the Archaeological Evidence,” BAR 16:02; Piotr Bienkowski, “Jericho Was Destroyed in the Middle Bronze Age, Not the Late Bronze Age,” BAR 16:05; and Wood, “Dating Jericho’s Destruction: Bienkowski Is Wrong on All Counts,” BAR 16:05.
The Canaanite cities mentioned on the Merneptah Stela are Ashkelon, Gezer and Yano’am; see Frank J. Yurko, “3,200-Year-Old Picture of Israelites Found in Egypt,” BAR 16:05.
Avraham Biran, “‘David’ Found at Dan,” BAR 20:02.
See the following articles in Biblical Archaeology Review: Philip R. Davies, “‘House of David’ Built on Sand: The Sins of the Biblical Maximizers,” BAR 20:04; Anson Rainey, “The ‘House of David’ and the House of the Deconstructionists,” BAR 20:06; and David Noel Freedman and Jeffrey C. Geoghegan, “‘House of David’ Is There!” BAR 21:02.
Mainstream biblical historians and archaeologists have in fact produced remarkably unbiased histories of biblical peoples. The Philistines now come across as culturally elevated and not boorish at all. Other peoples who have emerged from the biblical shadows include the Edomites, the Moabites, the Ammonites and the Phoenicians, to name just a few. Canaanite literary productions are now rated on a level with some biblical literature.
See Baruch Halpern, “Erasing History—The Minimalist Assault on Ancient Israel,” BR 11:06.
Endnotes
Keith W. Whitelam, The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History (New York: Routledge, 1996), p. 29.
As one scholar has recently written, “The often sterile preoccupation with…speculative historical reconstructionism that had preoccupied scholars for more than a century has, to a large extent, given way to a more holistic literary approach” (Daniel I. Block, “Deborah Among the Judges: The Perspective of the Hebrew Historian,” in Faith, Tradition, and History: Old Testament Historiography in Its Near Eastern Context, ed. A.R. Millard et al. [Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1994], p. 229).
Quoted in the newsletter of the Institute of Archaeology, Horn Archaeological Museum 16:1–2 (1995), p. 2.
Philip R. Davies, “‘House of David’ Built on Sand: The Sins of the Biblical Maximizers,” BAR 20:04.
Davies, “‘House of David’ Built on Sand: The Sins of the Biblical Maximizers,” BAR 20:04