Biblical maximalism
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The Bible and history/New version; The Bible and History; Historicity (Bible Studies); Biblical Maximalists; Biblical Maximalism; Maximilism; The bible and history; History and the Bible; Bible and history; The Bible & history; The Bible and history; Bible as history; The Bible as history; Biblical history; Hisorical accuracy of the Bible; Historical reliability of the Bible; Biblical historicity
Biblical maximalism is the movement in Biblical scholarship that, as opposed to Biblical minimalism, affirms the historicity of central Biblical narratives, such as those pertaining to the United Monarchy, and the historical authenticity of ancient Israel as a whole. Due to differences between the Bible and 19th- and 20th-century archaeological findings, there exists discordance between the two parties of biblical exegetists: the biblical maximalists argue that prior to Judaism's Babylonian Captivity (the period that spanned the 6th-century B.