Title: Hackneyed Biblical Minimalism
Product review: The authors belong to the radical school of archaeology known as Biblical Minimalism that ignores the value of written history in evaluating archaelogical evidence and which sacrifices true objectivity in favour of the ideological standpoint that the Old Testament must be debunked at all costs. Much of what they say has been said by others in the past and found wanting. The main weakness of the authors arguments lies in their "religious" acceptance of the old Albright stratigraphy of Israel and the ignoring of the controversies surrounding the dating of strata and archaelogical finds. When these are taken into account the authors' view of things crumbles.
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