There's another book called The Quest for the Historical Israel. It's a series of moderated essays by Finkelstein and another Israeli archaeologist, Amihai Mazar. Mazar, not to be confused with his cousin Eilat, seems to have come around to Finkelstein's point of view on the "centrist" position but even more to the point he agrees with Dever about the henotheistic nature of Judahite society in the period before the Babylonian assault.
I didn't want to overwhelm Summer by making the list too long but if you've already read Bible Unearthed than this one is well worth your while.
What happened between the publication Bible Unearthed and Quest for Historical Israel is that C14 surveys which not only confirmed Finkelstein's "low chronology" but actually made it a bit lower than even he thought, were published in Radiocarbon Magazine.
Dever famously commented a few years ago "I began writing to oppose the minimalists and ended up joining them." The C14 dating survey was apparently the last straw for real scientists.
Shithead bible-thumpers, of course, can never be dissuaded.
I didn't want to overwhelm Summer by making the list too long but if you've already read Bible Unearthed than this one is well worth your while.
What happened between the publication Bible Unearthed and Quest for Historical Israel is that C14 surveys which not only confirmed Finkelstein's "low chronology" but actually made it a bit lower than even he thought, were published in Radiocarbon Magazine.
Dever famously commented a few years ago "I began writing to oppose the minimalists and ended up joining them." The C14 dating survey was apparently the last straw for real scientists.
Shithead bible-thumpers, of course, can never be dissuaded.
