The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israelhttp://ifile.it/cl6n08r
Three
decades of dialogue, discussion, and debate within the interrelated
disciplines of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, Israelite history, and
Hebrew Bible on the question of the relevance of the biblical account
for reconstructing early Israel's history have created the need for a
balanced articulation of the issues and their prospective resolutions.
This book brings together for the first time and under one cover, the
currently emerging “centrist” paradigm as articulated by Israel
Finkelstein and Amihai Mazar, two leading figures in the field of early
Israelite history and archaeology. Although these two authors advocate
distinct views of early Israel's history, they nevertheless share the
position that the material cultural data, the biblical traditions, and
the ancient Near Eastern written sources are all significantly relevant
to the historical quest for Iron Age Israel. The results of their
research are featured here in accessible, parallel syntheses of the
historical reconstruction of early Israel with the aim of facilitating
comparison and contrast of their respective interpretations. The two
histories presented in Quest are based on invited lectures the authors
delivered in October 2005 at the International Institute for Secular
Humanistic Judaism's Sixth Biennial Colloquium in Detroit, Michigan.
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