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1:00-4:30pm
Sunday, June 1st, 2003
Moore Hall, Room 100
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA
Ha'aretz
article on Finkelstein
event press release
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Ticket price is $15
at the door, $7 for students; no advance tickets will be sold.
For more information and directions, please see the announcement
on the UCLA website (scroll down to June 1; includes links
to pdf sheets with background information). The debate will be
followed by a wine and cheese reception.
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Israel
Finkelstein, Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Institute
of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, will defend his proposed
'low chronology' which suggests David and Solomon ruled at a time
when the United Monarchy did not yet have the resources to administer
a fully developed state.
Taking a more traditional view,
Larry Stager, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel at
Harvard University, will seek to prove that there could well have
been a centrally-administered society under David and Solomon,
complete with the international trade and monumental architecture
that are hallmarks of a developed state.
The discussion will center on the
following questions: Was there a David? Who was Solomon? What
can we know about the origins of the ancient Israelite state from
archaeology? How do the Bible and archaeology in the Middle East
intersect?
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Dr. Israel
Finkelstein is Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University.
He is the author, with Neil Silberman, of The Bible Unearthed:
Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its
Sacred Texts.
Dr. Lawrence
Stager is Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel
in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Harvard
University. He supervises excavations at the site of Ashkelon
in Israel and is the author, with Philip King, of Life in Biblical
Israel.
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The debate is sponsored
at UCLA by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, the Dept. of Near
Eastern Languages and Culture, and the Center for Jewish Studies,
and by ASOR.
go to ASOR home page
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