The Quest for the Historical Israel
Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel
2007
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Engage the results of three decades of dialogue, discussion, and debate within Syro-Palestinian archaeology and ancient Israelite history This book brings together for the first time an emerging “centrist” paradigm that the material cultural data, the biblical traditions, and the ancient Near Eastern written sources are all significantly relevant to the historical quest for Iron Age Israel. The historical essays presented here are based on invited lectures delivered in October of 2005 at the Sixth Biennial Colloquium of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in Detroit, Michigan. Features:
- Balanced approach to the question of the relevance of the biblical account for reconstructing early Israel’s history
- Organization by time period for easy comparison of Finkelstein and Mazar’s positions
- Introductory essays for each section give overviews of the archaeological theories
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Israel Finkelstein
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Israel Finkelstein is a professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University. He is a leading figure in the archaeology of the Levant and the laureate of the 2005 Dan David Prize in the Past Dimension—Archaeology. Finkelstein served for many years as the Director of the Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University and is the co-Director of the Megiddo Expedition. He is the co-author, with Neil Silberman, of The Bible Unearthed (Free Press, 2001) and the author of many field reports and scholarly articles.
