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Book: Back to Reason

Chapter: The Road to Minimalism

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.43078

Blurb:

Minimalism grew out of a debate about the history of ancient Israel which began for earnest in the 1960s. The traditional interpretation of this history was torn apart from one end to the other, ending in an impasse where nothing was as it used to be while at the same time scholars was seriously questioning the very idea of ancient Israel as described in the Old Testament.

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