Amihai Mazar and Israel Finkelstein, the search for the history of Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of ancient Israel. Invited Lectures at the VI Biennial Symposium of the International Institute for Humanistic Judaism, secular, Detroit, announced in October 2005. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007.
In this collection, sharing two prominent Israeli archeologists their faith and their philosophy and their views on the history of ancient Israel. You are not far apart. Since it is clear that they revisionists or minimalists such as Philip Davies and Thomas Thompson, and the Bible school founded by William Albright differ. Finkelstein as the middle position between these extremes.
The view from the middle is the Deuteronomic history, the Torah, and many prophets have been compiled and published in the late monarchy, not in the post-exilic period or Hellenistic as claimed by the revisionists. According to this view, there is historical value in the biblical story accounts. Finkelstein makes clear that it does not agree with the revisionists that many of the Hebrew Bible was invented from scratch on new claims. He said: “It is unthinkable that the biblical authors fabricated stories just to serve their goals would have lost credibility with the people of Judah, and the target audience ..” (P. 18)
These conferences have also revealed significant differences between Finkelstein and Mazar. Mazar still claimed that there was a united monarchy of David and Solomon, while Finkelstein says that David and Solomon, the leader of a developing South, which were not yet a state. Mazar also extends the time of the biblical origins of the eighth to seventh century, instead of limiting it to the reign of Josiah. Finkelstein also criticized as watching the Deuteronomic history as a mirror of Josiah thrown to Mazar believes that the collection and processing of memories, which show the influence of earlier periods involved. The two scientists believe that they look to find the story in retrospect to the time of Josiah, and looking back to see from this time through a telescope, which parts of the early history have value.
However, these researchers are not far apart on most of what they have to say. A major difference is that the different approaches for the discovery at Megiddo Yigal Yadin, who has her differences over the united monarchy.
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