文档介绍：THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL ISRAEL
Archaeology and Biblical Studies
Andrew G. Vaughn, Editor
Number 17
THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL ISRAEL
Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel
THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL ISRAEL
Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel
Invited Lectures Delivered at the Sixth Biennial
Colloquium of the International Institute for Secular
Humanistic Judaism, Detroit, October 2005
by
Israel Finkelstein
and
Amihai Mazar
edited by
Brian B. Schmidt
BRILL
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2007
THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL ISRAEL
Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Finkelstein, Israel.
The Quest for the historical Israel : debating archaeology and the history of early Israel : lectures
delivered at the Annual Colloquium of the Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, Detroit,
October 2005 / by Israel Finkelstein and Amihai Mazar ; edited by Brian B. Schmidt.
p. cm. —(Society of Biblical Literature Archaeology and Biblical Study ; 17)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-401-5738-7 (cloth binding : alk. paper)
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3. Bible .—Evidences, authority, etc.—Congresses. 4. Excavations (Archaeology)—Israel—
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