Israel Finkelstein is an Israeli archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa. Finkelstein is act
Finkelstein in c. 2010
Directing excavations at Tel Meggido
The Kingdom of Israel, also called the Kingdom of Samaria or the Northern Kingdom, was an Israelite kingdom that existed in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. Its beginnings date back to the fir
Israel Finkelstein
β¦in northern Israel and the West Bank, as well as his development of the "Low Chronology", upended prior archaeological assessments by showing that the Kingdom of Israel was substantially larger and more prosperous when it coexisted alongside the Kingdom of Judah. Finkelstein has used these insights to challenge theβ¦
William Hughes, The Kingdoms of Judah and Israel
Ruins of the royal palace of the Omiride dynasty in the city of Samaria, which was the capital of Israel from 880 BCE to 720 BCE.
Jehu's delegation to Shalmaneser III, Black Obelisk, 841β840 BCE.
The tribute of Israel's king "Jehu of the people of the land of Omri" (Akkadian: π
ππ π₯ π·πππΏ), as depicted on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III from 841 to 840 BCE. This is "the only portrayal we have in ancient Near Eastern art of an Israelite or Judaean monarch."