By Israel Finkelstein
3 many years of discussion, dialogue, and debate in the interrelated disciplines of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, historic Israelite historical past, and Hebrew Bible over the query of the relevance of the biblical account for reconstructing early Israel’s background have created the necessity for a balanced articulation of the problems and their potential resolutions. This ebook brings jointly for the 1st time and lower than one disguise, a at the moment rising “centrist” paradigm as articulated by way of top figures within the fields of early Israelite archaeology and heritage. even if Finkelstein and Mazar recommend distinctive perspectives of early Israel’s historical past, they however proportion the placement that the fabric cultural info, the biblical traditions, and the traditional close to japanese written assets are all considerably correct to the historic quest for Iron Age Israel. the result of their examine are featured in available, parallel syntheses of the ancient reconstruction of early Israel that facilitate comparability and distinction in their respective interpretations. The ancient essays awarded listed here are according to invited lectures introduced in October of 2005 on the 6th Biennial Colloquium of the overseas Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in Detroit, Michigan.
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These he concludes, affirm the antiquity of portions of the stories about David and his times in 1 Samuel, and specifically those traditions concerning Shiloh’s importance, those about David and his band of renegades wandering along the southern reaches of Judah, and the references to Philistine Gath’s prominence in the David stories. For Finkelstein, all three also allow him to generalize in the following fashion; preserved in biblical traditions are older myths, tales, and memories that served as the nuclei for the stories composed by biblical authors.
E. The elaborate stratigraphy of successive kings and their industrial center simply did not exist. , this place near the shore of the Gulf of Aqaba was no more than a sand dune. A good case for demonstrating the second problem—that of circular argumentation—can be found at Gezer. William G. ] included distinctive forms of red-slipped and slipped and hand burnished (polished) pottery, which have always been dated to the late tenth century. ” Dever refers here to one of the highlights of the Gezer excavations, the notion that red-slipped and burnished pottery can be used as a peg for dating tenth-century strata.
Palace 6000 at Megiddo. Photo courtesy of the Tel Aviv University Megiddo Expedition. Fig. 4. Tel Rehov. Photo courtesy of the Tel Reov excavations. Fig. 5. Divisions of the Iron Age in Israel. Fig. 6. The Stepped Stone Structure in Jerusalem. Photo courtesy of Zev Radovan. Fig. 7. Plan of ancient Jerusalem. Fig. 8. Plans of the six-chambered gates at Gezer (A), Hazor (B), and Megiddo (C). Fig. 9. Four-horned clay altar from Tel Reov (tenth to ninth century). Photo courtesy of the Tel Rehov excavations.