Israel Finkelstein

Israel Finkelstein is a professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv
University. He is a leading figure in the archaeology of the
Levant and the laureate of the 2005 Dan David Prize in the
Past Dimension -- Archaeology. Finkelstein served for many
years as the Director of the Institute of Archaeology at Tel
Aviv University and is the co-Director of the Megiddo
Expedition. He is the co-author, with Neil Silberman, of The
Bible Unearthed (Free Press, 2001) and the author of many
field reports and scholarly articles.