The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel

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Three decades of dialogue, discussion, and debate within the interrelated disciplines of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, ancient Israelite history, and Hebrew Bible over 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, a currently emerging “centrist” paradigm as articulated by two leading figures in the fields of early Israelite archaeology and history. Although Finkelstein and Mazar 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 in accessible, parallel syntheses of the historical reconstruction of early Israel that facilitate comparison and contrast of their respective interpretations. The historical essays presented here are based on invited lectures delivered in October of 2005 at the Sixth Biennial Colloquium of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in Detroit, Michigan.
 

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Archaeology and the Quest for Historical Israelin the Hebrew Bible
3
A Summary Assessment for Part 1
5
Archaeology and the Bible
9
On Archaeology Biblical History and Biblical Archaeology
21
Using Archaeology to Assess the BiblesTraditions about the Earliest Times
35
Summary Assessment for Part 2
37
Fact or Fiction?
41
The Patriarchs Exodus and Conquest Narrativesin Light of Archaeology
57
History or Myth?
107
An Archaeological Perspective
117
On More Secure Ground? The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the Iron II Period
141
A Summary Assessment for Part 5
143
Israel and Judah
147
Comments on Some Archaeological Issues
159
So What? Implications for Scholars and Communities
181
Bible and Archaeology
183

The Historical Origins of Collective Israel
67
A Summary Assessment for Part 3
69
When and How Did the Israelites Emerge?
73
The Israelite Settlement
85
The Tenth Century The New Litmus Test for the Bibles Historical Relevance
99
A Summary Assessment for Part 4
101
Archaeologys Message
189
Further Reading
199
Index
209
Index of Biblical Passages
219
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