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Israel Finkelstein is perhaps the best-known Israeli archaeologist in the world. Renowned for his innovative and ground-breaking research, he has written and edited more than 20 books and published more than 300 academic papers. He has served as the director of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology and is the Jacob M. Alkow Professor of Archeology in the Bronze and Iron Age at Tel Aviv University. For the past two decades, he has been co-director of the Megiddo Expedition and is currently co-director of the Mission archéologique de Qiryat-Yéarim. His work has greatly changed the face of archaeological and historical research of the biblical period. His unique ability to see the comprehensive big picture and formulate a broad framework has inspired countless scholars to reexamine long-established paradigms. His trail-blazing work covering every period from the beginning of the Early Bronze Age through the Hasmonean period, while sometimes controversial, has led to a creative new approach that connects archaeology with history, the social sciences, and the natural and life sciences. Israel Finkelstein is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a correspondant étranger of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. Professor Finkelstein is the recipient of the prestigious 2005 Dan David Prize for his radical revision of the history of Israel in the 10th and 9th centuries BCE. In 2009, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2010 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne. He is a member of the selection committee of the Shanghai Archaeology Forum, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In 2014, his book The Forgotten Kingdom was awarded the esteemed Prix Delalande-Guérineau by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris. This volume, dedicated to Professor Finkelstein’s accomplishments and contributions, features 36 articles written by his colleagues, friends, and students in honor of his decades of scholarship and leadership in the field of biblical archaeology.

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Author:   Oded Lipschits ,  Yuval Gadot ,  Matthew J. Adams
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Eisenbrauns
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.270kg
ISBN:  

9781575067872

ISBN 10:   1575067870
Pages:   520
Publication Date:   15 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

"The Omride Annexation of the Beth-Shean Valley Eran Arie Follow the Negebite Ware Road Shirly Ben-Dor Evian A Cooking-Pot from Hazor with Neo-Hittite Seal Impressions Amnon Ben-Tor, A. Cohen-Weinberger, and M. Weeden ""English Lady Owns Armageddon"": Rosamond Templeton, Laurence Oliphant, and Tell El-Mutesellim Eric H. Cline Is Jacob Hiding in the House of Saul? Margaret Cohen With a Bible in One Hand... Philip R Davies Entering the Arena: The Megiddo Stables Reconsidered Norma Franklin The Iron I in the Samaria Highlands: A Nomad Settlement Wave or Urban Expansion? Yuval Gadot Jeroboam I? Jeroboam II? Or Jeroboam 0?: Jeroboam In History And Tradition Lester L. Grabbe Rethinking Destruction by Fire: Geoarchaeological Case Studies in Tel Megiddo and the Importance of Construction Methods Ruth Shahack-Gross Rethinking Amorites Robert S. Homsher and Melissa S. Cradic ""...Out of the Land of Egypt, Out of the House of Slavery..."" (Exodus 20:2): Forced Migration, Slavery and the Emergence of Israel Ann E. Killebrew Was There a Refugee Crisis in the 8th/7th Centuries BCE? Ernst Axel Knauf Israel Or Judah? The Shifting Body Politic and Collective Identity in Chronicles Gary N. Knoppers Early Philistia Revisited and Revised Ido Koch Palynological Analysis of the Glacis of the Seleucid Acra in Jerusalem: Construction Duration Estimation and Environmental Reconstruction Dafna Langgut The Future Of The Past: At-Risk World Heritage, Cyber-Archaeology, and Transdisciplinary Research Thomas E. Levy Bethel Revisited Oded Lipschits Rethinking the Philistines: A 2017 Perspective Aren M. Maeir and Louise A. Hitchcock The Fate of Megiddo at the End of the Late Bronze IIB Mario A.S. Martin Rediscovering a Lost North Israelite Conquest Story Nadav Na’aman Rethinking the Origins of Israel: 1 Chr 1–9 in the Light of Archaeology Manfred Oeming The Putative Authenticity of the New ‘Jerusalem’ Papyrus Inscription: Methodological Caution as a Desideratum Christopher Rollston The Rise and Fall of Josiah Thomas Römer Pax Assyriaca and the Animal Economy in the Southern Levant: Regional and Local-Scale Imperial Contacts Lidar Sapir-Hen ""Israel"" in the Joseph Story (Genesis 37–50) Konrad Schmid Psalm 29, The Voice of God, and Thunderstorms in the Eastern Mediterranean William M. Schniedewind Rethinking Israel and the Kingdom of Saul Omer Sergi Statistical Inference in Archaeology: Are We Confident? Arie Shaus, Barak Sober, Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Anat Mendel-Geberovich, David Levin, Eli Piasetzky, Eli Turkel Looking Back on the Bible Unearthed Neil Asher Silberman Empires and Allies: A Longue Durée View from the Negev Desert Frontier Yifat Thareani New Evidence of Jerusalem’s Urban Development in the 9th Century BCE Joe Uziel and Nahshon Szanton The Final Phase of the Common ""Proto-Semitic"" Alphabet in the Southern Levant: A Rejoinder to Sass and Finkelstein David S. Vanderhooft Metal Production and Trade at the Turn of the First Millennium BCE: Some Answers, New Questions Naama Yahalom Mack Resilience and the Canaanite Palatial System: The Case of Megiddo Assaf Yasur-Landau and Inbal Samet"

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Thanks to his numerous works as well as his talents as a communicator, Israel Finkelstein is undoubtedly one of the only archeologists of the ancient Levant whose name is known outside specialist circles. In this volume, fifty colleagues (just over half of whom are Israeli) pay tribute, in thirty-six chapters, to his work and his research, which have made lasting progress in the fields of history and archeology in the biblical period. -D. Luciani, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses

In this volume, fifty colleagues (including a good half of Israelis) pay tribute, in thirty-six contributions, to his work and his research that have made lasting progress in the field of the history and archeology of the biblical period. The list of these contributions will suffice to give a little idea both of the variety of positions of the authors and of the breadth of the recipient's interests. -D. Luciani, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses

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