"The Bible Unearthed": A Rejoinder

@article{Finkelstein2002TheBU,
  title={"The Bible Unearthed": A Rejoinder},
  author={Israel Finkelstein and Neil A. Silberman},
  journal={Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research},
  year={2002},
  volume={327},
  pages={63 - 73}
}
illiam Dever has recently published a review article of our book The Bible Unearthed (2001a). It is our view that Dever either misunderstood the book, or misrepresented it in certain important respects. We will present the reasons for our position by citing Dever's own words (in italics) and responding to them (in regular font). To make it easier for the reader to follow this rebuttal, we have divided our citations into two major categories, each set in the order in which they appear in Dever's… Expand
View on U Chicago Press
14 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
3
Background Citations
5
Methods Citations
1

14 Citations

Citation Type

Citation Type

Visiting the Real Gezer: A Reply to Israel Finkelstein
Abstract This article is a reply to Israel Finkelstein's 'Gezer Revisited and Revised' (Tel Aviv 29:262-296). It is an attempt to address the methodological issues posed there, as well as to refute… Expand
Raamses, Pithom, and the Exodus: A Critical Evaluation of Ex 1:11
Up to the present, the brief notice on the storage cities of “Pithom” and “Raamses” and the forced labour of the Israelites in Ex 1:11 has been taken as the historical nucleus of a possible exodus… Expand
Negotiating (with) the Natives: Ancestors and Identity in Genesis
No sooner does the Abraham of Genesis arrive in Canaan than the narrator informs us that “the Canaanite was then in the land” (Gen 12:6). Yet immediately God an-nounces his intention to give this… Expand
A Great United Monarchy? Archaeological and Historical Perspectives
Twelve years have passed since I first presented – to the German Institute in Jerusalem – my ideas on the chronology of the Iron Age strata in the Levant and how it impacts on our understanding of… Expand
Survival of the Fittest, or: Creation and Evolution of the Abrahamic Religions
The evolution of the Abrahamic religions begins with the proto-religion of Middle Palaeolithic interments in the Fertile Crescent, it continues in the two-phase funerals of Jericho, all the way to… Expand
Media and motivations: a discourse analysis of media representations of Eilat Mazar's 'City
The primary aim of this thesis is to examine the scholarly discourse surrounding the recent excavations conducted by Eilat Mazar at the „City of David‟ site in Jerusalem, specifically her claims… Expand
Religions and Their Environment
The term environment in its strict sense (the German Umwelt) refers to the totality of those factors of the surroundings that actually exert some influence on the religion or that are effected by the… Expand
What of the Land with Bows? Archers of “Meshech” and the Allusion to Genesis in Isaiah 66:19
This paper seeks to interpret a unique gentilic in the Book of Isaiah. Placed with what in redactional methodology is referred to as Trito-Isaiah, Isaiah 66:19 lists several names of nations and… Expand
Testing competing archaeological theories of Israel’s origins using computation techniques
TLDR
This work assembles all the theories about Israel’s origins into four categories and tests each category using computational tools borrowed from bio-mathematics, helping reconcile known conflicting archaeological evidence and examine two aspects of the evidence that have not been considered so far. Expand
Jerusalem's 'City of David': The Politicisation of Urban Heritage
This paper explores Israeli settlers’ ideological and physical uses of heritage sites in the ‘Historical Basin’ of Jerusalem. It focuses on the ‘City of David’ archaeological park, at the foot of the… Expand
...
1
2
...

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 53 REFERENCES
The hidden book in the Bible
Renowned biblical sleuth and scholar Richard Elliott Friedman, author of "Who Wrote the Bible?," reveals for the first time his most startling and revolutionary discovery: embedded within the Bible… Expand
Bible Archaeology or Archaeology of Palestine in the Iron Age? A Rejoinder
AbstractThe archaeology of the United Monarchy has recently become a focus of a fierce dispute. The debate has far-reaching consequences for archaeological, historical and biblical studies. In a… Expand
The Deuteronomistic History
many scholars see 2 editions—first in time of Josiah, calling people to choose obedience, second early in exile, telling reasons for destruction, but ending in note of hope—Cross says earlier work… Expand
What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It? What Archaeology Can Tell US about the Reality of Ancient Israel
death-resurrection pattern of the master story. Romans 6:3-8 affirms that the experience now of newness of life will find its logical conclusion in the experience of resurrection to eternal life in… Expand
Excavating the Hebrew Bible, or Burying It Again?
  • W. Dever
  • Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
  • 2001
from their rereading of the Hebrew Bible in the light of archaeology can be reduced to three propositions, which I would formulate as follows. (1) The story of "Biblical Israel" found in the… Expand
What did the biblical writers know, and when did they know it? : what archaeology and the Bible can tell us about ancient Israel
For centuries the Hebrew Bible has been the fountainhead of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Today, however, the entire biblical tradition, including its historical veracity, is being challenged. In… Expand
Megiddo and Solomon: A Biblical Investigation in Relation to Archaeology
The Bible rarely mentions Megiddo, and when it does, it is often merely in lists of place names or in texts with little tangible information (Josh. 12:21, 17:11 ; Judg. 1:27, 5:19 ; 1 Kgs. 4:12, 2… Expand
Josiah's Revolt against Assyria
more than five years longer (to 628 B.C.),1 and in 1944 W. H. Dubberstein, chiefly on the basis of a datum from Berossus, showed that he scarcely can have ruled more than two years longer (to 631… Expand
The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine
The Biblical Archaeologist is published quarterly (February, May, September, December) by the American Schools of Oriental Research. Its purpose is to meet the need for a readable non-technical, yet… Expand
The Rise of Jerusalem and Judah: the Missing Link
Abstract The paper attempts to identify early stages of state formation in Judah, before the great leap forward in population growth, building activities and literacy in the late-eighth and seventh… Expand
...
1
2
3
4
5
...