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Title: A Massive Maximalist Counterattack
Review: K.A. Kitchen is one of the most learned and well-read orientalists in the world today, and his effort in this book shows it. This is the kind of broadside against minimalizing tendencies that many have been waiting for. OROT is thorough and detailed, but covers so much that it leaves you wanting more. Upon finishing it the reader will likely come to the realization that the subjects for nearly every chapter require whole volumes in and of themselves. Sometimes I wish Kitchen had divided the book into separate parts so that he could make space for fleshing out his arguments more. Nonetheless this is an enjoyable and useful read that will bring students of Old Testament/Ancient Near Eastern studies to understand why maximalists can't be dismissed with the wave of a hand as merely ignorant fundamentalists or "red state" evangelicals.
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