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
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Silberman, Neil Asher |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American archaeologist and co-editor of Archeology Magazine |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1950 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |