I have read "The Bible Unearthed" multiple times, which, for me, was necessary to grasp the material. I appreciate your work immensely Professor.

I am reading his book and its very clarifying and helpful for believers and not believers, but just people that love history and real facts.

I wish Mr. Israel Finkelstein good health and hope his findings be spread all over the world. From Indonesia.

thank you from iraq Professor finkelstein for your efforts to clarify the truth

Very interesting stuff - thank you for uploading! By the way, in case anyone was wondering, this colloquium was held in 2005.

Bravo!!! I certainly believe this man's approach to the issues more than I believe anything written more than 2000 years ago in the Middle-East or more recently written by religious nuts with healthy doses of contrivance.

Required reading for anyone who would like to engage on this subject.

Dear Israel,

Better than his usual talks not so biased.

Professor Finkelstein is a very smart man who has obviously seriously devoted his life to his scholarship. Bravo! But, I contend that there should be no need for archeology regarding the Bible unless "God" simply doesn't exist. Any "God" worth his salt, who wants all people to believe in Him and His stories, would make things obvious and make it totally unnecessary for archeologists to spend their lives on their hands and knees digging for bits of evidence and then arguing about all of it. Doesn't that make sense?

FIRST: Use the 709 BCE eclipse to date the entire timeline from Assyrian Period to the Exodus rather than 763 BCE.