"The Kingdoms of Israel And Judah" Israel Finkelstein

Israel Finkelstein, Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv Universitya and co-author of "The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts," discusses the archaeological evidence regarding the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in the "First Temple" Period. For more information on this Colloquium, visit iishj.org/colloquium-05.html.

[@maximilianUTU]

Absolutely fascinating ! Thanks a lot, professor, for this lecture. It resembles a lot the discussion about 1989 in my country: was it unification or annexion. The same goes for the discussion in the US about the Civil War. Or the discussion between England and Scotland in the UK or the discussion in France about frank France (northern the Loire) ans southern/south-western France (the Langue d'Oc/Occitaine). Same situations - same behaviour.

[@lucyrodrigues7609]

thanks for uploading

[@NuisanceMan]

20 minutes max, huh?

[@dovbarleib3256]

The way he and his "intelligencia" treated Adam Zertal with contempt over Zertal's discovery of Joshua's altar on Mt. Eibal is inexcusable.

[@NuisanceMan]

The issue isn't the discovery itself but whether the altar was really Joshua's.

[@bill9989]

​@@NuisanceManand of course, it wasn't.

[@joshuajosephy]

Israel Finkelstein's outdated view of David (as merely a village chieftain) and Solomon has been disproven by, ironically, his universityTel Aviv University''s recent research on donkey dung found in Timna near King Solomon's mines. ​@t​

[@bill9989]

Despite all his supposed grandeur, riches, wisdom and diplomacy, there are no references to Solomon outside of the bible.

[@FeatherRobert]

He fails to mention that seals from the divided kingdom period of King Hezekiah, carried symbols identical to those seen in the Amarna period. .Finkelstein doesn't like the idea of anything in the bible being a record of anything earlier than the divided kingdom. How does he explain the fact that Psalm 104 paraphrases the Great Hymn to the Aton dated to the 14th century BCE.Certainly the Joshua -style invasion was an invented story, but there was an influx of newcomers in the northern hill country in the late 12th century BCE, which almost certainly reflects the Exodusees entry into the land. How can he explain the different styles of pottery and terracing, typical of Egyptian practice. He makes the same mistakes as other scholars in assuming mention of Israel in the Merneptah stele refers to a fixed location and that the Israelites were therefore in Cannaan by 1207 BCE, whereas unlike mention of Gezer, Yanoam, and Ashkelon, the hieroglyphs clearly distinguish between a place and a people, potentially being in transit. He blithely dismisses the unique design of 4 room houses as also occurring elsewhere than in the hill country- completely ignoring the fact that the same design first appeared in Egypt in the delta region where the Israelite group must have originated from. He predicates many of his statements as assumptions and there is little sound evidence for most of the speculations he makes.

[@charlitoadams777]

You're aware that King David wrote psalm 104. Akhenaten was dead centuries before David ,so David was influenced by Egypt. The origins,spiritual systems of the Abrahamic religions stem from Egypt. There's nothing historical about most of Abraham's lineage.

[@NuisanceMan]

@@charlitoadams777 King David wrote Psalm 104? And how would you know that?

[@stewb887]

this was way before islam

[@jordyj4126]

And they have the nerves to say israel don't exist lmao🤣🤣

[@coach8283]

Someday, he will have no choice but to give David and Solomon their due. The evidence unearthed will continue to weigh in their favor. 100 years from now, Finkelstein will be remembered unfavorably, if at all, in the current maximalist/minimalist debate.

[@anunnakielohim2727]

the king Merneptah stele pretty much gives David and Solomon their rightful due's.

[@annascott3542]

Dream on.

[@hesedjackd.alvarez2452]

70 years of unearthing David and Solomon's kingdoms yielded nothing. Today in Israel, no one is sure where exactly is David's tomb.