The Rise and Fall Of Ancient Israel with Prof. Israel Finkelstein | Ep 14: Writing in Ancient Israel
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- The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel is a series of in-depth conversations about the archaeology and history of Ancient Israel with Prof. Israel Finkelstein and Dr. Matthew J. Adams.
Episode #14: Writing in Ancient Israel
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Prof. Israel Finkelstein is a leading figure in the archaeological and historical research of Ancient Israel. Throughout forty years of field work and study Prof. Finkelstein has managed to change the way archaeology is conducted, and to greatly influence the way the bible is interpreted, and the history of Israel is reconstructed.
Prof. Finkelstein is a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa. Prof. Finkelstein is active in the archaeology of the Levant and is an applicant of archaeological data in reconstructing biblical history. He is also known for applying the exact and life sciences in archaeological and historical reconstruction. Prof. Finkelstein is the current excavator of Megiddo, a key site for the study of the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Levant. Prof. Finkelstein is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and an associé étranger of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Dr. Matthew J. Adams is an archaeologist who specializes in the Near East. He is currently director of the Jezreel Valley Regional Project and a Co-Director of the Megiddo Expedition along with Prof. Finkelstein.
Dr. Adams sat down with Prof. Finkelstein over several sessions to talk about how a lifetime of work has informed the story of Ancient Israel. These conversations became the series The Rise of Ancient Israel with Israel Finkelstein.
Books by Professor Israel Finkelstein (affiliated links)
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The Quest for the Historical Israel: Archaeology and the History of Early Israel
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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
Paperback
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The Forgotten Kingdom: The Archaeology and History of Northern Israel
Paperback
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Written and Produced by Israel Finkelstein and Matthew J. Adams.
Cinematography and Editing by Yuval Pan.
Infographics & Publishing: KEDEM Channel.
Special thanks to The W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
This series is made possible with a grant from the Shmunis Family Foundation.
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Nice to see all those graphics and illustrations added so we can see what they are talking about, especially those illustrating the evolution of Ancient Hebrew.
Thanks!
I can’t express how gratefull i am for this interviews being avaiable in UA-cam! Greeting from Brazil 🇧🇷❤️
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you Lucas 🙏
Why don't you publish all the series in one go? The whole series is freely available on UA-cam.
We are actually re-edited the whole series, including graphics and illustrations. We release each episode once ready (usually we publish two episodes every week).
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Well done. I would make a couple of points.
The first point is there was a writing system in the region later known as Isra'el. There are inscriptions in akkadian cuneiform in Hazor, and there are correspondences in cuneiform with cities during the Amarna period. It cannot be ruled out that people like the biblical deborah who lived in the city of Luz (Almond tree, probably symbolic of the divine pair 'l and Asherah) might have been able to read and write cuneiform. In the biblical legend Deborah sat under a palm tree passing judgement, this is also a symbol of Asherah, and Deborah is a topic of the earliest biblical source, so that source might have been originally preserved in cuneiform and later lost. The point of Luz is that its symbolity link it squarely in canaanite culture AND its sits between Ephraim and Yehudah.
The second point is Israel is right, protoCanaanite did not form in the mines of south Sinai peninsula, but also gaza is not likely either, since we have production goods from egypt reaching the levant with protoSinaitic, moreover there are traces in phonecia during the early Amarna. In my opinion this script was a shopkeepers script.
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How was the Torah written down when there was no Hebrew alphabet at that time?
I'm a big fan of Dr. Finkelstein's work. I did want to read an academic that is scholarly like Dr. Finkelstein but one that is pro-Bible.
Can anyone recommend someone? Thank you so much.
It's not about being "pro-bible". A true academic is going to follow where the evidence leads. And often the data contradicts the biblical story because the bible is not a scientific text.
@@stormy8110 I probably should've said "pro-United Monarchy". In any event, my googles found William G. Dever and Aaron Burke. For a "Natural" explanation for the 10 Plagues of the Exodus, Simcha Jacobvici (by "Natural", I mean natural phenomena). I can't recommend the first 2 people as I haven't read their books yet.
So it seems then that Judah was a very backward place in relation to literacy and the use of writing until after the fall of the northern kingdom (Israel) to the Asyrians.
And in the relatiely short period between the fall of Israel and the fall of Judah (to the NeoBabylonians), we see a brief flourishing of literary composition that was then interrupted during the Babylonian Exile until Cyrus conquered Babylon and allowed/sponsored the return of the Judahite elites to Judah.
I presume that implies that any/all Judahite content in the Tanakh dates from either the century or so before or the centuries after the Exile - and that any accounts of supposedly early Iron Age (let alone Bronze Age or earlier) events it describes are at best legendary texts containing at most a kernel of historical reality (e.g. the Davidic accounts) or deeply mythic texts (e.g. all of Genesis)...
This is indeed Prof. Finkelstein thesis. There are other opinion in scholarly, of course.
@@KEDEMChannel Can you please mention some of the other Archaelogists with an opposing opinion? I really want to do due diligence before 100% accepting Dr. Finkelstein's conclusions.
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