Israel Finkelstein's outdated view of David (as merely a village chieftain) and Solomon has been disproven by, ironically, his universityTel Aviv University''s recent research on donkey dung found in Timna near King Solomon's mines. @t
Finkelsteins explanations are based on radiocarbon data from megiddo - scientific facts. There is no evidence that Solomon possess the Timna mines. Its just a claim of your belief bias.
But I thought that radiocarbon of ancient finds cannot be more accurate than within 50 years, and the impossibility of pinning down dates with radiocarbon dating is why the explosion of Santorini can't be pinned down. I've been reading that work in great detail, because whatever way you put it together, Santonini exploded within a generation or two of the expulsion of the Hyksos. Obviously Santorini's fireworks couldn't have played into the Hysksos story if it occured 80 years before or 80 years after, but, as far as accuracy of carbon 14, the two events occurred at the same time. I'm not going to say this palace is King Solomon's, but I'm not believing the radiocarbon dating rules that out when the two dates are only 80 years apart. If he has better evidence than carbon 14 dating to pin this palace to the 8th or 9th century he needs to present it. What of the styles of finds that appear in the site - not even mentioned here, but it's hard to believe they found none. And couldn't they read and write in this period, no writing found in a BIIIGGG palace complex?
This is kinda useless for research on Solomon It’s great knowing about later kings, but none of this contradicts the verse in 1 Kings 9: “Solomon built up Megiddo”. Doesn’t say how he did it or what he added, just that he improved it. While it’s really interesting to think of the possibility of Solomon’s character being a legendary composition of later kings, that gets thrown out by the fact the Hebrews had a reasonable cultural memory they used within their oral tradition. Their testimonies are real, and no cute theories and stories about the archeology can dispute that.
I was fortunate to visit this site back in 2002. I am a great fan of Mr. Finkelstein's work and these videos are worth more than any university degree
This was so interesting and so well done, thank you.
And thank you Israel for letting Thomas get a few words in.
Wonderful, great to hear clear explanations that make sense of the Biblical text..
Very educational to watch, just like his book, The Bible Unearthed.
Love it.
More videos pls. Thank u for this!
Whatever the fundamentalist academia says about your theory, you have come up with almost accurate reconstruction of ancient Israel .
Loved it
Israel Finkelstein's outdated view of David (as merely a village chieftain) and Solomon has been disproven by, ironically, his universityTel Aviv University''s recent research on donkey dung found in Timna near King Solomon's mines. @t
Finkelsteins explanations are based on radiocarbon data from megiddo - scientific facts. There is no evidence that Solomon possess the Timna mines. Its just a claim of your belief bias.
Hobbit music? Welcome to Ha-Sheir!
But I thought that radiocarbon of ancient finds cannot be more accurate than within 50 years, and the impossibility of pinning down dates with radiocarbon dating is why the explosion of Santorini can't be pinned down. I've been reading that work in great detail, because whatever way you put it together, Santonini exploded within a generation or two of the expulsion of the Hyksos. Obviously Santorini's fireworks couldn't have played into the Hysksos story if it occured 80 years before or 80 years after, but, as far as accuracy of carbon 14, the two events occurred at the same time.
I'm not going to say this palace is King Solomon's, but I'm not believing the radiocarbon dating rules that out when the two dates are only 80 years apart.
If he has better evidence than carbon 14 dating to pin this palace to the 8th or 9th century he needs to present it. What of the styles of finds that appear in the site - not even mentioned here, but it's hard to believe they found none. And couldn't they read and write in this period, no writing found in a BIIIGGG palace complex?
This is kinda useless for research on Solomon
It’s great knowing about later kings, but none of this contradicts the verse in 1 Kings 9: “Solomon built up Megiddo”. Doesn’t say how he did it or what he added, just that he improved it.
While it’s really interesting to think of the possibility of Solomon’s character being a legendary composition of later kings, that gets thrown out by the fact the Hebrews had a reasonable cultural memory they used within their oral tradition.
Their testimonies are real, and no cute theories and stories about the archeology can dispute that.
Long live pseudo-science!
I suppose you think the real science is in taking the bible at face value
It's history, it's about building evidence with whatever evidence we have, not about mathematical proofs and replicating experiments