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	Israel Finkelstein - Past 2005 Laureate - Dan David Prize, TAU
		Israel Finkelstein is the holder of the Jacob M. Alkow Chair in the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University.
		Israel Finkelstein is widely regarded as a leading scholar in the archaeology of the Levant and as a foremost applicant of archaeological knowledge to reconstructing biblical Israelite history.
		Israel Finkelstein has attempted to combine archaeology and philology, to show how archaeological evidence can lead to new textual interpretations and how texts can elucidate the meaning of archaeological evidence, all focused within one region where both bodies of evidence still survive.
	www.dandavidprize.org /laureates/past2005-finkelstein.html (473 words)

	Author, professor condemns Israeli government's policies
		Finkelstein said Zionism — a social and political movement arguing that return to and sovereignty over the historical land of Israel is necessary to end the oppression of the Jews — began in the 1880s.
		Finkelstein said the fact Israel has yet to comply with these measures demonstrates its oppression of the Palestinians and its unwillingness to accept the two-state ideal of government.
		Finkelstein said he believes it is hypocritical to be against the policies of those administrations and not be against Israel.
	www.dailytargum.com /main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=315987 (1009 words)

	Archaeology Department, Tel-Aviv University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Finkelstein, I. The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement.
		Finkelstein, I. Toward a New Periodization and Nomenclature of the Archaeology of the Southern Levant.
		Finkelstein, I. The Stratigraphy and Chronology of Megiddo and Beth-shan in the 12th-11th Centuries B.C.E. Tel Aviv 23:170-184.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/archaeology/faculty/finkelcv.html (875 words)

	Finkelstein: Dershowitz's New Israel Book A 'Hoax'
		I think Israel made in my view a terrible view in my view what it should have done is made border adjustments pursuant to U.N. resolution 242 which I actually consulted with justice Goldburg, he was the ambassador to the U.N. was involved in the process of that 242 resolution, which presupposed some territorial adjustments.
		Finkelstein's criticism of them I came away from enough doubt about the conclusions that although I donít regard the Peters' book in any way as a fraud, I think it was well intentioned effort to recreate and very difficult to recreate events that existed in 1890 and 1900.
		Finkelstein suggesting that the quote from Mark Twain is not an accurate quote.
	www.rense.com /general42/finkl.htm (3775 words)

	Israel Finkelstein - Wikipedia
		Born in Petah Tikva, he is currently Professor of Archaeology at the Tel Aviv University and Co-Director of 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.
		The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement, Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1988.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israel_Finkelstein (113 words)

	Finkelstein challenges Dershowitz: : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Finkelstein teaches at DePaul University and is the author of four books including The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering.
		Finkelstein does is he counts that land and says, look how much they got and look at the proportion of Jews and Palestinians that's not the correct demographic to look at.
		What happened is when that child was killed in his father's arms, the nation of Israel went into almost universal mourning, it was as if they were sitting shiva on one of their own children.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1662929 (3794 words)

	Religion Or Not Now - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Finkelstein says the Holocaust industry was born at the time of the six-day war in June 1967 - before that both the Holocaust and Israel were scarcely mentioned in American public life.
		Israel became the American surrogate in the Middle East and the Holocaust was evoked morally to justify the alliance.
		Israel became the defender of US values and, since America at that time was losing the Vietnam war, it was a more effective defender than America herself.
	christianparty.net /wm/wm0234a.html (1577 words)

	"Fiat Lux: Archeology and the Old Testament" by Sarah Belle Dougherty (review of "The Bible Unearthed" by Israel ...
		Finkelstein is director of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, and Dr. Silberman is director of historical interpretation for the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation in Belgium.
		They describe the very early history of the nation, delineate ethnic boundaries, emphasize that the Israelites were outsiders and not part of the indigenous population of Canaan, and embrace the traditions of both the north and the south, while ultimately stressing the superiority of Judah.
		the emergence of early Israel was an outcome of the collapse of the Canaanite culture, not its cause.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/sunrise/52-02-3/xt-sbd2.htm (2669 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Norman Finkelstein, the pro-Palestinian DePaul University political science professor who has been touring North American campuses to the dismay of many Jewish students, shared the stage last week at the University of Toronto with a Jerusalem-based Israel advocate in an event sponsored by U of T’s Student Administrative Council (SAC).
		Finkelstein, the son of Holocaust survivors, joked that her sternness brought back memories of his late mother.
		Finkelstein spoke mainly about the Middle East and said that while the Palestinian leadership is corrupt, they’re not the real obstacles to peace.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=1894 (644 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Bible Unearthed : Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Israel does not appear as a recognizable kingdom until the time of the Omrides of the 9th century BCE, while Judah does not appear as such until the late 8th century BCE, at the time of kings Ahaz and Hezekiah.
		Finkelstein and Silberman argue convincingly that Josiah, wanting to expand his kingdom to include the now fallen kingdom of Israel, found it useful to weave together the "histories" of the northern and southern kingdoms to create one unified and sacred text uniting the peoples of these two kingdoms.
		Finkelstein and Silberman are not amond these minimalists and are well within what is argued by mainline scholars, especially those trying to come to terms with how the Bible and the archaeological data coincide and differ.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684869128?v=glance (3091 words)

	IBSS - The Bible - What Did the Biblical Writers Know & When Did They Know It? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Whitelam charges Israel Finkelstein with creating a early Israel to validate modern Israeli claims to the West Bank (Ibid).
		Finkelstein's own work The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement (1988) has caused much of the debate about Israelite origins.
		Israel Finkelstein has questioned the proposed 10th century date for the city walls and gates or Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
	www.bibleandscience.com /bible/reviews/know.htm (1475 words)

	Donald B. Redford, Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman
		Redford and Finkelstein say that the geographical place-names in Biblical accounts are reliable for the 7th and 6th centuries BC, but not for earlier times, showing that it cannot be regarded as a "history" of those earlier times.
		Just as Israel was placed in the debt of Phoenicia for most of the Egyptian influences in art, architecture, and historiography, so also in the realm of belles lettres Egyptian literature and style passed through the sieve of the Levantine coast before arriving atJerusalem.
		Its present position provides a free expansion on the theme of Israel's descent to Egypt, although it is wholly unnecessary to the ongoing account of the Patriarchs: Jacob and family arrive on the banks of the Nile without the help of Joseph in the earlier tradition.
	users.cyberone.com.au /myers/archaeology-bible.html (20572 words)

	Salon.com Books \| King David was a nebbish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It's hard to say that someone who was born in Israel and intends to live the rest of his life there is anti-Israeli." In her mind, Finkelstein's work parallels a broader change in Israeli society led by those who, like Finkelstein, were born after the task of state building had been accomplished.
		Israel Finkelstein is part of that, but he's looking at Israel's ancient past." Marcus calls this group of scholars "new historians"; others have dubbed the trend "post-Zionism."
		Finkelstein remains unfazed by his critics: "I am sure that no educated Israeli or American Jew for that matter, would want me to silence the results of my research.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/2001/02/07/solomon/index3.html (962 words)

	Archaeology of Israel - SmartyBrain Encyclopedia and Dictionary
		Each university in Israel possesses a strong department or institute of archaeology and is involved in research, excavation, conservation and training.
		Yigael Yadin, one-time Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, was one of the more influential amongst the older generation of Israeli archaeologists before his death.
		In regard to the latter, Amihai Mazar and Israel Finkelstein represent the leading lights in a debate regarding the nature and chronology of the United Monarchy.
	smartybrain.com /index.php/Archaeology_of_Israel (384 words)

	Salon.com Books \| King David was a nebbish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the essay, Herzog laid out many of the theories Finkelstein and Silberman present in their book: "the Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did not conquer the land [of Canaan] in a military campaign and did not pass it on to the twelve tribes of Israel.
		And while Baruch Halpern, a historian who was a co-director of the Megiddo excavation with Finkelstein, describes the book as "excellent" and "challenging," he remains unconvinced by Finkelstein's redating of the Solomonic ruins because the theory relies overmuch on pottery seriation, a technique for dating sites using ceramic remains, which he distrusts.
		As Finkelstein and Silberman relate, midcentury archaeologists usually "took the historical narratives of the Bible at face value"; Israel's first archaeologists were often said to approach a dig with a spade in one hand and the Bible in the other.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/2001/02/07/solomon/print.html (2087 words)

	Index
		Prior to the meetings, Shalom said during an interview on the fence that Israel should "do everything to defend" as many West Bank settlers as possible, and said the purpose of the fence was to defend Israeli citizens.
		Meanwhile, Israeli newspaper Haaretz is reporting the Israeli government spends at least $560 million a year on subsidies, infrastructure and education for 220,000 Jewish settlers living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
		Norman Finkelstein, he is the author of four books including The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering and Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.
	www.democracynow.org /print.pl?sid=03/09/24/1730205 (4186 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . COVER STORY . Biblical Archaeology . February 6, 2004 \| PBS
		Lucky Severson visited the dig at Megiddo in northern Israel, where scholars are unearthing and dating the remains of cities, altars, and battlefields at one of civilization's most violent crossroads.
		ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN (Director of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University): This is the mother of all mounds, so to speak, because this is the place where biblical archaeology was born.
		FINKELSTEIN: He was a tribal chieftain, yes, that is correct, and David, too, in my opinion, as far as I can judge.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week723/cover.html (1402 words)

	The Bible, as History, Flunks New Archaeological Tests
		In an interview by e-mail from the Megiddo site, Finkelstein said that not long ago, "biblical history dictated the course of research and archaeology was used in order to 'prove' the biblical narrative." In that way, he said, archaeology took a back seat as a discipline.
		And the new theories about ancient Israel are emerging against the backdrop of a raging dispute over the biblical "minimalists," a group of scholars who argue that biblical accounts of early Israel, including the stories of David and Solomon, have little, if any, basis in history.
		At Megiddo, Finkelstein said, he found that the period 2,900 years ago -- the century following the rule of Solomon -- was a far more interesting and powerful time for the Kingdom of Israel than the Bible says.
	www.truthbeknown.com /bibleflunks.htm (1350 words)

	Introduction to Biblical Archaeology 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Israel Finkelstein disagrees with this somewhat arbitrary claim, and indeed there is no evidence to support this, only the aesthetic appeal to one's eye.
		Finkelstein's theory is that the rapid increase in population in the hill country was brought about by nomads coming from the east (modern Jordan).
		On this, Finkelstein disagrees and argues that it is here that the Philistines actually arrive (thus revising the chronologies considerably), since he disagrees that they could have made an impact during Egyptian control of the region.
	www.eblaforum.org /library/bcah/intbibarch03.html (4142 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Finkelstein and Silberman are able tour guides through a long list of archaeological sites bearing on what took place in biblical lands in ancient times.
		Their commentary is up to the minute, their narrative sufficiently orderly to help keep straight (for me, for the first time) the succession of Middle Eastern potentates who impacted Israel's fortunes, as well as the succession of fashionable theories over the last century within the discipline of biblical archaeology.
		But whatever their motives, FandS present their case straightforwardly, clearly, and concisely, and along the way they dish out what is, for such a short book, a surprising quantity of hard information that will be useful to anyone interested in the issues they raise, from maximalists to minimalists to those of us in the middle.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0684869136 (1460 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Finkelstein may be most famous for his quote: "'If everyone who claims to be a survivor actually is one,' my mother used to exclaim, 'who did Hitler kill?"
		In his review of Finkelstein in The Nation, Gordon concludes, “His (Finkelstein’s) book is controversial not entirely because of his mistakes or his piercing rhetoric but because he speaks truth to power.
		Instead of "enlightening" the public about various aspects of the Holocaust, Finkelstein has only aided anti-Semites across the globe in their quest for total denial in what was one of the worst tragedies ever to take place in modern history.
	www.smolanim.com /post-search.php3?RowID=312 (1334 words)

	Archaeology Insitute, Tel-Aviv University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Israel Finkelstein has been awarded the prestigious 2005 Dan David Prize for outstanding achievement in the field of archaeology (past dimension).
		Finkelstein is the incumbent of the Jacob M. Alkow Chair in the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University and served as Director of The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University from 1996-2003.
		There is also a new book, with N. Silberman, In Search of David and Solomon, due to be published this year.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/archaeology/News/finkel.htm (516 words)

	Archaeology Department, Tel-Aviv University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bunimovitz, I. Finkelstein and N. Naaman, The Location of Alashiya: New Evidence from Petrographic Investigation of Alashiyan Tablets, American Journal of Archaeology 107 (2003), pp.
		I. Finkelstein, The Campaign of Shoshenq I to Palestine: A Guide to the 10th Century BCE Polity.
		Finkelstein, I. Ethnicity and Origin of the Iron I Settlers in the Highlands of Canaan: Can the Real Israel Stand Up?
	www.tau.ac.il /~archpubs/faculty/finkelcv.html (875 words)

	Biblical Israel - response to Ian
		Ian`s remark that Finkelstein was " amongst a group of atheists " appears made as though that were a slur for a start upon his attempt at scholarship.
		Jews around the world must take pride in not just Israel but in the entire region of Palestine as the home of Canaanite and Israelite culture that both are descended from.
		Those that fled the claustrophobic and introspective world of Israel for the West are the only ones with sufficient perspective to find resolution, not merely to perpetuate the shameful past that their political leaders are hell bent on doing.
	www.investigatemagazine.com /_IDdisc2/0000018f.htm (724 words)

	The Bible Unearthed - Israel Finkelstein - Microsoft Reader eBooks
		In the past three decades, archaeologists have made great strides in recovering the lost world of the Old Testament.
		Dozens of digs in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon have changed experts' understanding of ancient Israel and its neighbors -- as well as their vision of the Bible's greatest tales.
		They offer instead a new historical truth: the Bible was created by the people of the small, southern nation of Judah in a heroic last-ditch attempt to keep their faith alive after the demise of the larger, wealthier nation of Israel to the north.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/101680-ebook.htm (563 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Israel Finkelstein
		For the last hundred and fifty years a war has been waged over the historical reliability of the Hebrew scriptures.
		Recent dramatic discoveries of biblical archaeology have cast serious doubt on the familiar account of ancient Israel and the origins of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
		Though the Bible credits Abraham as the first human to realize there is only one God, we now know that there is no evidence for monotheism for many centuries after the reported time of Abraham.
	wwww.fictionwise.com /eBooks/IsraelFinkelsteineBooks.htm (158 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		by Neil Asher Silberman (Author), Israel Finkelstein "In the beginning was a single family, with a special relationship to God..." (more)
		From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel by Israel Finkelstein in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
		The Archaeology of the Israelite Settlement by Israel Finkelstein in Back Matter
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684869136?v=glance (3201 words)

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