Israel Finkelstein

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Israel Finkelstein

Israel Finkelstein is an Jacob M. Alkow Professor of Archaeology of Israel in the Bronz Age and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University. Born in Petah Tikva, he was previously Director of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University from 1996-2002. He is currently the co-director of the renewed excavations at the important archaeological site of Megiddo in northern Israel.

Together with Yuval Goren and Nadav Na'aman, Finkelstein has coordinated the petrographic analysis of the Amarna tablets.

With Neil Asher Silberman, he is also the author of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts.

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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.