Example sentences for: minimalists

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  • A group of scholars known as "biblical minimalists" is claiming that the Good Book is thoroughly worthless as a historical document, and that all future efforts to reconstruct the early history of Israel must rely strictly on archaeology.

  • In a recent discussion of the subject in Bible Review , leading British scholar Philip Davies is quoted as saying that "the figure of King David is about as real as [that of] King Arthur," and minimalists point out that the archaeological evidence for David's existence amounts to a solitary reference to the "House of David" on a victory monument at Tel Dan.

  • Sure it references American minimalism, and sends it up, but that's hardly his unique achievement: American avant-garde art has been doing that almost since Judd and Morris, the pioneer minimalists, hit the scene.

  • Discarding the biblical narrative, minimalists reinterpret the flight from Egypt into Israel as a variety of indigenous peasant revolt in which fed-up Canaanite farmers wrested their land from feudal lords.


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