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Apparently I have been granted the sublime honor of being considered an associate member of the \u201cGuild of Biblical Minimalists<\/a>\u201c. New Testament scholars cannot be full members, since we have too much useful historical material in the texts we study for it to be possible for us to attain to full-blown minimalism in our field.<\/p>\n

The number of posts so far is (perhaps appropriately) minimal, but I look forward to seeing what they do with this site. The potential for widespread amusement is far from minimal, if it is done right!<\/p>\n

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Apparently I have been granted the sublime honor of being considered an associate member of the \u201cGuild of Biblical Minimalists\u201c. New Testament scholars cannot be full members, since we have too much useful historical material in the texts we study for it to be possible for us to attain to full-blown minimalism in our field. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Guild of Biblical Minimalists<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Apparently I have been granted the sublime honor of being considered an associate member of the "Guild of Biblical Minimalists". 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