Neil Asher Silberman

Neil Asher Silberman (born June 19, 1950 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American archaeologist and historian . He is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown , Connecticut , and has at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the archeology of the Middle East specialized.

From 2004 to 2007 he worked as a director at the Ename Center for Public Archeology and Heritage Presentation in Belgium , but returned to the USA in autumn 2007 , where he a. a. is co-editor of the renowned Archeology Magazine .

Works

• Israel Finkelstein / Neil A. Silberman: No trumpets before Jericho. The archaeological truth about the Bible [with files]. Beck, Munich 2002, dtv 2004, ISBN 3-423-34151-3
• Israel Finkelstein / Neil Asher Silberman: David and Solomon. Archaeologists decipher a myth. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54676-5
• Neil Asher Silberman: The Messiah Makers. The Qumran Rising and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Lübbe, 1999, ISBN 3-785-70776-2

literature

• Thomas Pola : What Remains of Israel's Older History? Methodical and factual remarks on newer minimalist positions. In: Theological contributions (ThBeitr) 34 (2003), Issue 5, ISSN  0342-2372 , pp. 238-255 (see also web links)
• Dieter Vieweger : Review of: Finkelstein, Silberman: No trumpets before Jericho, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung (ThLZ) 129 (2004), ISSN  0040-5671 , pp. 1182–1186
• 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

Web links

• Literature by and about Neil Asher Silberman in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article by Pola, see also literature
• Review by Wolfgang Zwickel of the David Solomon book