“Thanks to his numerous works as well as his talents as a communicator, Israel Finkelstein is undoubtedly one of the only archeologists of the ancient Levant whose name is known outside specialist circles. In this volume, fifty colleagues (just over half of whom are Israeli) pay tribute, in thirty-six chapters, to his work and his research, which have made lasting progress in the fields of history and archeology in the biblical period.”—D. Luciani Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses