Israel Finkelstein
Israel Finkelstein ( Hebrew ישראל פינקלשטיין; * March 29, 1949 in Tel Aviv ) is director of the Archaeological Institute of Tel Aviv University . He has taught as visiting professor in Chicago , Harvard and at the Sorbonne . He is one of the leading archaeologists in Israel. Since 1992 he has been leading the excavations in Megiddo together with David Ussishkin (* 1935) .
Co- edited with Neil A. Silberman , “ No Trumpets Before Jericho . The archaeological truth about the Bible “presents the archeology of Palestine in the Bronze and Iron Ages and Finkelstein's conclusions on ancient Jewish history . Finkelstein's theory largely contradicts the historiography based on the Old Testament . The book proposes a new chronology of the Iron Age in the eastern Mediterranean . Some research results are presented under the lemma of the Israelites' land acquisition . According to the Low Chronology represented by Israel Finkelstein , David and Solomon still lived in the Iron Age I, which was shaped by the village; this removes the basis of the hypothesis of a Davidic-Solomonic empire . Rather, Finkelstein sees the basis for the biblical description of such a large empire in the empire of Jeroboam II , who, according to him, should have brought Israel to a similarly respectable size.
Publications (selection)
- Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman: No Trumpets Before Jericho. The Archaeological Truth About the Bible. (Original: The Bible Unearthed, Archeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origins of its Sacred Texts , New York 2001) Beck, München 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
- Israel Finkelstein: The Historical Reality behind the Genealogical Lists in 1 Chronicles . In: Journal of Biblical Literature 131, 1/2012, pp. 65-83. ( PDF )
- Israel Finkelstein: The Forgotten Kingdom. Israel and the hidden origins of the Bible . (Original: The Forgotten Kingdom, The Archeology and History of Northern Israel. ) Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66960-6
- Israel Finkelstein: Hasmonean Realities behind Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives (= Ancient Israel and its literature . Volume 34). SBL Press, Atlanta 2018.
literature
- Thomas Pola : What Remains of Israel's Older History? Methodical and factual remarks on newer minimalist positions . In: Theological contributions (ThBeitr) 34 (2003), Heft 5, ISSN 0342-2372 , pp. 238-255
- Thomas L. Thompson: Archeology and the Bible Revisited: A Review Article , in: Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament (SJOT) Vol. 20 (2006), No. 2, ISSN 0901-8328 , pp. 286-313
- Dieter Vieweger : Review of: Finkelstein, Silberman, Keine Trosaunen vor Jericho , in: Theologische Literaturzeitung (ThLZ) 129 (2004), ISSN 0040-5671 , pp. 1182–1186
Web links
- Literature by and about Israel Finkelstein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Finkelstein website
- Christoph Bultmann: “Many Kings in Israel” - book review on trumpets in the Berliner Zeitung from January 6, 2003
- The shine of the forefathers Review by Wolfgang Zwickel of the David Solomon book, Archeology Adventure 05/2006
Individual evidence
- ^ Ariel David: Meet the Real King David, the One the Bible Didn't Want You to Know About . In: Haaretz . March 27, 2019 ( Haaretz.com [accessed January 10, 2020]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Finkelstein, Israel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |