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.

...

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)

[edit] Festschrifts

May contain prefaces with further biographical information:

• Beth Alpert Nakhai (ed.), The Near East in the Southwest: Essays in Honor of William G. Dever. Atlanta: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2003. ISBN 0897570650

• Seymour Gitin, J. Edward Wright, and J. P. Dessel (eds.), Confronting the past : archaeological and historical essays on ancient Israel in honor of William G. Dever. Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2006. ISBN 1575061171

Jheald 11:48, 9 November 2007 (UTC)