>I never met an archaeologist at the entire university who even remotely believed in the existence of king David, let alone Solomon, Saul or even Joshua or Mose

>I never met an archaeologist at the entire university who even remotely believed in the existence of king David, let alone Solomon, Saul or even Joshua or Moses. However, when I visited Israel with a group of students... This seems to change by university. Had you for example visited Tel-Aviv university (site of Finkelstein et. all) you would have likely gotten a different vibe.