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Title: Disputing Thomas Thompson
Review: Thompson is among a small group called the biblical minimalists.They say no Israelite nation existed before 800 BC. Yet the Pharoah Mernepthah mentions Israelites in a stgele he had erectd about 1207BC. They say that the Hebvrew Bible is mostly fiction concocted to compete with the Hellenistic of the Greek conquerors in the 4th century BC. In that case, you would expect Greek and Babylonian loan words in the Book of Exodus. But there are none. There are,however, Egyptian loan words.I could go on but don't want this review to take up too much space. Robert Meister, Brookline. MA.
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