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Gershon Galil is the senior lecturer in Ancient Near East
Ancient Near East

The Ancient Near East refers to early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia , Fars Province, Elam and Medes , Anatolia , the Levant , and Ancient Egypt, from the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BCE until the region's conquest by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, or covering both th...
ern history and chairman of the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa
University of Haifa

The University of Haifa is a university in Haifa, Israel.About 16,500 undergraduate and graduate student students study in the university a wide variety of topics, specializing in social sciences, humanities, law and education....
, Mount Carmel
Mount Carmel

Mount Carmel is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast. Archaeologists have discovered ancient wine and oil presses at various locations on Mt....
, Haifa, Israel. He received his doctorate
Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession ....
 at Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. His work, The Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah, suggests a new chronology for the kings of ancient Israel
Kingdom of Israel

The Kingdom of Israel was one of the successor states to the older United Monarchy . It existed roughly from the 930s BC until about the 720s BC....
 and ancient Judah
Kingdom of Judah

The Kingdom of Judah existed at two periods in Jewish history. According to the Hebrew Bible, a kingdom emerged in Judah after the death of Saul, when the tribe of Judah elevated David to rule over it....
. His thesis was published by Brill Academic Publishers in 1996 and his chronology contrasts with those presented by the more traditional William F. Albright
William F. Albright

William Foxwell Albright was an United States archaeology, Bible, linguistics and expert on ceramics . From the early twentieth century until his death, he was the dean of biblical archaeologists and the universally acknowledged founder of the Biblical archaeology movement....
 or Edwin R. Thiele
Edwin R. Thiele

Edwin R. Thiele was an United States of America missionary in China, an editing, Archaeology, writer, and Old Testament professor. He is best known for his chronological studies of the Hebrew kingdom period....
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Gershon Galil is the senior lecturer in Ancient Near East
Ancient Near East

The Ancient Near East refers to early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia , Fars Province, Elam and Medes , Anatolia , the Levant , and Ancient Egypt, from the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BCE until the region's conquest by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, or covering both th...
ern history and chairman of the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa
University of Haifa

The University of Haifa is a university in Haifa, Israel.About 16,500 undergraduate and graduate student students study in the university a wide variety of topics, specializing in social sciences, humanities, law and education....
, Mount Carmel
Mount Carmel

Mount Carmel is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast. Archaeologists have discovered ancient wine and oil presses at various locations on Mt....
, Haifa, Israel. He received his doctorate
Doctorate

A doctorate is an academic degree that in most countries represents the highest level of formal study or research in a given field. In some countries it also refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to practice in a specific profession ....
 at Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. His work, The Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah, suggests a new chronology for the kings of ancient Israel
Kingdom of Israel

The Kingdom of Israel was one of the successor states to the older United Monarchy . It existed roughly from the 930s BC until about the 720s BC....
 and ancient Judah
Kingdom of Judah

The Kingdom of Judah existed at two periods in Jewish history. According to the Hebrew Bible, a kingdom emerged in Judah after the death of Saul, when the tribe of Judah elevated David to rule over it....
. His thesis was published by Brill Academic Publishers in 1996 and his chronology contrasts with those presented by the more traditional William F. Albright
William F. Albright

William Foxwell Albright was an United States archaeology, Bible, linguistics and expert on ceramics . From the early twentieth century until his death, he was the dean of biblical archaeologists and the universally acknowledged founder of the Biblical archaeology movement....
 or Edwin R. Thiele
Edwin R. Thiele

Edwin R. Thiele was an United States of America missionary in China, an editing, Archaeology, writer, and Old Testament professor. He is best known for his chronological studies of the Hebrew kingdom period....
.

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