In our July/August 2014 issue, we published two harshly critical reviews of a book titled The Forgotten Kingdom—The Archaeology and History of Northern Israel by the dean of Tel Aviv University archaeologists and a leading so-called minimalist, Israel Finkelstein. Our reviewers were two equally distinguished American archaeologists, William Dever and Aaron Burke.a At the same time, however, we called attention to the fact that the French publication of Finkelstein’s book had been awarded the prestigious Delalande-Guérineau prize by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. In view of these critical reviews, it seems to us only fair that we call […]
