ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN

'Israel Finkelstein' is a renowned Israeli archaeologist and academic. He is currently the Jacob M. Alkow Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze Age and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University and is also the co-director of the renewed excavations at the important archaeological site of Megiddo in northern Israel. Previously, he served as Director of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University from 1996-2002.
Born in Petah Tikva, he completed his studies at Tel Aviv University, writing his Ph.D. thesis on the The Izbet Sartah Excavations, for which he was also the Field Director.

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Collaborations

Selected Publications

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Collaborations

Together with Yuval Goren and Nadav Na'aman, Finkelstein has coordinated the mineralogical and chemical analysis of the Amarna tablets. He also co-authored, with Neil Asher Silberman, ''The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts''.

Selected Publications

★ ''The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement'', Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1988.

★ ''Living on the Fringe'', 1995.

★ ''The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts'', 2001, ISBN 0-684-86912-8.

★ ''David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition'', 2006, ISBN 0-7432-4362-5.

External links

★ Tel Aviv University Department of Archaeology page for Prof. Israel Finkelstein