49 Facts About Israel Finkelstein

Israel Finkelstein is an Israeli archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa.

Israel Finkelstein is the current excavator of Megiddo, a key site for the study of the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Levant.

Israel Finkelstein is a member of the selection committee of the Shanghai Archaeology Forum, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Israel Finkelstein was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 29,1949.

Israel Finkelstein's parents were Zvi Finkelstein was born on 1908 and and Miriam Finkelstein.

Israel Finkelstein came to Palestine with his family in 1920.

Israel Finkelstein attended the PICA elementary school and Ahad Ha'am High School, both in Petah Tikva.

Israel Finkelstein then served in the Israel Defense Forces.

Israel Finkelstein studied archaeology and Near Eastern civilizations, and geography at Tel Aviv University, receiving his BA in 1974.

Israel Finkelstein continued as a research student under the supervision of Prof.

Israel Finkelstein graduated as a PhD in 1983 with a thesis titled "The Izbet Sartah Excavations and the Israelite Settlement in the Hill Country".

Israel Finkelstein served as the chairperson of the Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies and as Director of The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology.

Israel Finkelstein was the editor of Tel Aviv, the journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, and the executive editor of the Monograph Series by the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University.

Israel Finkelstein is a member of editorial boards, including the Palestine Exploration Quarterly and the Archaeology and Biblical Studies series of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Israel Finkelstein was trained as a field archaeologist in the excavations of Tel Beer Sheva and Tel Aphek.

Israel Finkelstein directed the excavation at biblical Shiloh, a site which features Middle Bronze, Late Bronze and Iron I remains.

Israel Finkelstein has written on a variety of topics, including the archaeology of the Bronze Age and the exact and life sciences contribution to archaeology.

The classical theories on the emergence of Israel Finkelstein viewed the process as a unique event in the history of the region.

Israel Finkelstein suggested that it was a long-term process of a cyclical nature.

Israel Finkelstein proposed that the locally-made Monochrome pottery known from several sites in Philistia, which is widely understood as representing the earliest phase of Philistine settlement, should be dated after the withdrawal of Egypt from Canaan in the 1130s.

Israel Finkelstein sees the biblical description of the time of David and Solomon as multilayered.

Israel Finkelstein acknowledges the historicity of the founders of the Davidic Dynasty, places them in the 10th century BCE, and considers the possibility that the description of the rise of David to power conceals old memories of his activity as a leader of an Apiru-band that was active in the southern fringe of Judah.

Israel Finkelstein sees much of the description of King Solomon as representing realities from late monarchic times: First, from the later days of the Northern Kingdom.

Israel Finkelstein suggested that memories of the turmoil in the lowlands in the late Iron I can be found in northern traditions regarding skirmishes with Canaanite cities which appear in the heroic stories in the Book of Judges.

Israel Finkelstein proposed that the first North Israelite territorial polity emerged in the Gibeon-Bethel plateau in the late Iron I and early Iron IIA.

Israel Finkelstein found archaeological evidence for this in the system of fortified sites, such as Tell en-Nasbeh, Khirbet ed-Dawwara, et-Tell and Gibeon.

Israel Finkelstein proposed that in its early days, the Northern Kingdom ruled over the Samaria Highlands, the western slopes of the Gilead and the area of the Jezreel Valley.

Israel Finkelstein described the special features of Omride architecture and, with his Megiddo team, dealt with different subjects related to the material culture of the Northern Kingdom, such as metallurgy and cult practices.

Israel Finkelstein reflected on biblical traditions related to the Northern Kingdom, such as the Jacob cycle in Genesis, the Exodus tradition, the heroic stories in the Book of Judges and remnants of royal traditions in the Books of Samuel and Kings.

Israel Finkelstein suggested that these North Israelite traditions were first committed to writing in the days of Jeroboam II, that they were brought to Judah with Israelite refugees after the takeover of Israel by Assyria, and that they were later incorporated into the Judahite-dominated Bible.

Israel Finkelstein has recently dealt with the location of the ancient mound of Jerusalem.

Israel Finkelstein further noted that many of the sites mentioned in the lists of returnees in Ezra and Nehemiah were not inhabited in the Persian Period and hence sees these lists as reflecting the demographic situation in days of the Hasmoneans.

Israel Finkelstein then looked into the accounts of Judahite monarchs in 2 Chronicles, which do not appear in Kings.

Israel Finkelstein called attention to similarities between these texts and 1 Maccabees, and proposed to understand Chronicles as representing legitimacy needs of the Hasmoneans.

Israel Finkelstein concentrated on two waves of activity in this area.

Israel Finkelstein played a pioneering role in the introduction of exact and life sciences methods and techniques to archaeology.

Israel Finkelstein put special emphasis on advanced dating methods, first and foremost radiocarbon, but archaeo-magnetism and OSL.

Israel Finkelstein engaged in studies of geo-archaeology, molecular residues in ceramic vessels and archaeo-metallurgy.

Israel Finkelstein has co-edited festschrifts for Nadav Na'aman, Benjamin Sass and David Ussishkin as well as being honoured with two himself:.

Episodes cover the rise of Ancient Israel Finkelstein as evidenced by archaeology, ancient Near Eastern textual sources, the Bible, and archaeology from the Late Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Period.

Israel Finkelstein is the Laureate of the Dan David Prize in 2005.

Israel Finkelstein excels at creatively forging links between archaeology and the exact sciences and he has revolutionized many of these fields.

Israel Finkelstein has transformed the study of history and archaeology in Israeli universities, moving from a 'monumental' to a 'systemic' study of the archaeological evidence.

In 2014, Israel Finkelstein was awarded the Prix Delalande Guerineau: Institut de France, l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, for his book Le Royaume biblique oublie.

Israel Finkelstein is the recipient of the MacAllister Field Archaeology Award 2017.

Dever later accused Israel Finkelstein of supporting post-Zionism, to which Israel Finkelstein replied by accusing Dever of being "a biblical literalist disguised as a liberal".

Israel Finkelstein stated that the book was full of "numerous errors, misrepresentations, over-simplifications and contradictions".

Israel Finkelstein stated that the book engages in several speculations that cannot be proved by archeology, biblical and extra-biblical sources.

Israel Finkelstein criticized Finkelstein for persistently trying to downgrade the role of David in the development of ancient Israel.