Israel Finkelstein (Hebrew: yshrl pynqlshtyyn, born March 29, 1949) is an Israeli archaeologist and academic. He is the Jacob M. Alkow Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University Finkelstein is widely regarded as a leading scholar in the archaeology of the Levant and a foremost applicant of archaeological data in reconstructing biblical history. He is also known for applying the exact and life sciences in archaeological and historical reconstruction. Finkelstein is the excavator of Megiddo - a key site for the study of the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Levant.
Academic career
From 1976 to 1990 Finkelstein taught at the Department of Land of Israel Studies, Bar-Ilan University, beginning as a teaching assistant. He spent the academic year of 1983-84 in a research group led by Prof. Yigael Yadin in the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In 1986-87 Finkelstein taught at the Department for Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. In 1987 he was appointed an associate professor with tenure at Bar-Ilan University and in 1990 moved to the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations at Tel Aviv University. In 1992/93 Finkelstein spent a sabbatical year as a visiting scholar at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Since 1992, he has been a Full Professor at Tel Aviv University. He served as the chairperson of the Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies (1994-98) and as Director of The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology (1996-2003). In 1998-99 Finkelstein was a visiting scholar in the Centre de Recherche d'Archeologie Orientale and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in the Sorbonne, Paris.  Finkelstein delivered series of lectures on the history and archaeology of Ancient Israel at the Texas Christian University (2002), the University of Buenos Aires (2011), the College de France in Paris (2012) and the Methodist University of Sao Paulo (2015). He is scheduled to deliver similar lectures at the Tokyo Christian University (2017) and the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome (2017). Finkelstein has read over 100 papers in international conferences and given numerous talks in universities around the globe.  Finkelstein has been the Editor of Tel Aviv, the journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, since 2008 and Executive Editor of the Monograph Series by the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, since 2005. He is a member of editorial boards, including the Palestine Exploration Journal and the Archaeology and Biblical Studies series, the Society of Biblical Literature.

Q: where did he study?
A: From 1976 to 1990 Finkelstein taught at the Department of Land of Israel Studies, Bar-Ilan University, beginning as a teaching assistant.

Q: what did he teach?
A: He spent the academic year of 1983-84 in a research group led by Prof. Yigael Yadin in the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Q: what subject did he teach?
A: Jerusalem. In 1986-87 Finkelstein taught at the Department for Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.
did he teach anywhere else?
In 1987 he was appointed an associate professor with tenure at Bar-Ilan University
In 1987 he was appointed an associate professor with tenure at Bar-Ilan University