Talk:William G. Dever
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Since there has been a lot of recent debate in the scholarly community on where Dever's sympathies lie (especially in regard to his worldview, vis-a-vis his work), perhaps it would be good to add another quote that further clarifies his positions. Several years ago, Dever wrote an essay entitled "Contra Davies" that, among other things, sought to do this very thing; here's a quote that we could perhaps use:
"...I am not reading the Bible as Scripture... I am in fact not even a theist.
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My view all along—and especially in the recent books—is first that the biblical narratives are indeed 'stories,' often fictional and almost always propagandistic, but that here and there they contain some valid historical information. That hardly makes me a 'maximalist.'"
HeretiKc 20:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
