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The Devil Is Not So Black as He Is Painted

BAR interviews Israel Finkelstein

Israel Finkelstein is professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University and has codirected the excavations at Megiddo since 1994. Recently, he was the recipient of an award that provides a fund in excess of $4 million for a scientific study of the history of ancient Israel. Editor Hershel Shanks and Professor Finkelstein discuss, among other things, whether or not there was an Exodus from Egypt. Hershel Shanks: Israel, I know that you are not a Biblical minimalist, and you’re not a Biblical maximalist either. You regard yourself as a centrist. But many people refer to you as a Biblical […]

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Footnotes

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“‘David’ Found at Dan,” BAR 20:02.

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Eilat Mazar, “Excavate King David’s Palace!” BAR 23:01; Eilat Mazar, “Did I Find King David’s Palace?” BAR 32:01.

Endnotes

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Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition (New York: Free Press, 2006).

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Israel Finkelstein, Ze’ev Herzog, Lily Singer-Avitz and David Ussishkin, “Has King David’s Palace in Jerusalem Been Found?” Tel Aviv 34 (2007), pp. 142–164.