Israel Finkelstein

Israel Finkelstein (Hebrew ישראל פינקלשטיין; b. 1949 in Petah Tikva ) is director of the Archaeological Institute of the University of Tel Aviv. He has taught as a visiting professor in Chicago, Harvard and the Sorbonne. He is one of the leading archaeologists in Israel. Since 1992 he runs, together with David Ussishkin excavations at Megiddo.

The published along with Neil A. Silberman book " No trombones before Jericho. The archaeological truth about the Bible ", the archeology of Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Ages and Finkelstein's conclusions on the Jewish history of antiquity dar. Finkelstein's theory contradicts in many parts of the Old Testament oriented historiography. The book proposes a new chronology of the Iron Age. Some experimental results are presented below conquest of Canaan. Other puzzles such as the absence of remains of a city of Jerusalem for the time of the described in the Old Testament kings David and Solomon remain unresolved.

Works

• Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman: No trombones before Jericho. Archaeological truth of the Bible. (Original: The Bible Unearthed, Archaeology 's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origins of its Sacred Texts, New York 2001), Beck, Munich 2002, dtv 2004, ISBN 3-423-34151-3
• Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman, David and Solomon. Archaeologists decipher a myth. ( Original: David and Solomon, In Search of the Bible 's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western tradition. ) Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54676-5