Lemche . . . accounts for the Grand Canyon yawning between biblical “minimalists” (like himself, Thomas L. Thompson, Jason Van Seters [sic — read “John Van Seters”], and Philip R. Davies) and “maximalists,” the latter being . . . fundamentalist literalists, evangelical scholars who think they are real critics but are actually a kind of … Continue reading "Further Agreement with the Hellenistic Dating of the Hebrew Scriptures"| Vridar
Why the Hellenistic era .... Part 2a In this post I will explain "my personal reason" for strongly suspecting a Hellenistic origin of the biblical literature -- though I am sure I have come across the same ideas throughout different books and articles over the years. It follows on from #5 in the pr| Vridar
By the way, I have informed Stephen Goranson that he is welcome to respond here to my resposting of his criticisms of Russell Gmirkin -- despite my earlier prohibition on his posts to this blog. For this series alone I have lifted my relegation of SG's comments to spam. In Part 4 I pointed to discu| Vridar
Since I don't expect to have much time to write new posts again before the end of the year, I will from time to time copy what I once posted on another forum in defence of Russell Gmirkin's thesis dating the Old Testament books to the Hellenistic era. The orthodox view is that biblical books abou| Vridar