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	Tel Dan Stele - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tel Dan Stele is a fl basalt stele erected by an Aramaean king in northernmost Israel containing an Aramaic inscription to commemorate his victory over the ancient Hebrews.
		Like the Mesha stele, the Tel Dan Stele seems typical of a memorial intended as a sort of military propaganda, which boasts of Hazael's or his son's victories.
		Due to the mention of both "Israel" and the "House of David", the Tel Dan Stele is often quoted as supporting evidence for the Bible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tel_Dan_Stele (1380 words)

	Tel Dan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tel Dan ("Dan's Hill," תל דן in Hebrew) is an area in upper Galilee in Northern Israel; fed by melt water from the snows of mount Hermon, it is well watered by streams and covered with lush vegetation that seems out of place amidst its arid surroundings.
		In ancient times the area was the principal settlement of the Tribe of Dan, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
		The Tel Dan Stele is a fragment (in two sections) of an Aramaic inscription on basalt, which appears to be from a stele erected for one of the Aramean kings of Damascus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tel_Dan (496 words)

	Dan: The Biblical City
		The mound of the biblical city of Dan is located at the foot of Mount Hermon in the northeast of the country.
		The Dan river, one of the sources of the Jordan river, emerges at the foot of the mound.
		Above the spring, on the northern side of the mound, the cultic precinct of the Israelite city of Dan was exposed.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Archaeology/dan.html (1269 words)

	Forest of Stone Steles Museum Xian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Shitai Xiaojing (stele engraved with the Canon of Filial Piety) and Kaicheng Shijing (steles engraved with the Confucian Classics) of the Tang Dynasty were originally kept in the Imperial Academy in Wu Ben District of Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty (in the vicinity of the present Wen Yi Street, southern Xi'an).
		This stele was unearthed in the western suburb of Xi'an in 1945 and moved to the Forest of Steles in 1949.
		This stele was erected when he climbed Yishan Mountains (now south-east of Zouxian County, Shandong Province) in the 28th year of his reign (219BC) on one of his inspection tours, in praise of his contribution to the abolition of the system of enfeoffment and the establishment of the system of prefectures and counties.
	www.cnhomestay.com /city/xian/forest.htm (6537 words)

	Jehu - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Further, the author of the Dan Stele (found in 1993 and 1994 during archeological excavations of the site of Laish) claimed to have slain both Ahaziah, and Jehoram; the most likely author of this monument is Hazael of the Arameans.
		Beyond his bloody coup d'etat, and his tolerance for the golden calves at Dan and Bethel (which drew the disdain of the author of Kings), little is known of the events of Jehu's reign.
		He was hard pressed by the predations of Hazael, king of the Arameans, who is said to have defeated his army "throughout all of the territories of Israel" beyond the Jordan river, in the lands of Gilead, Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh (10:32f).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Jehu (905 words)

	biblicalia: "House of David" and BYTDWD
		As the Tel Dan stele is clearly Aramaic, a victory stele left at Tel Dan by an Aramean king whose name is now lost.
		So, yes, the BYTDWD of the Tel Dan Stele is evidence for an earlier David being on the throne in that territory which we typically refer to as Judah.
		While I agree that the Tel Dan inscription refers to Judah as the 'house of 'David,' I think it is a bit of a leap to say that this is "evidence for an earlier David being on a throne in that area".
	www.bombaxo.com /blog/2005/12/house-of-david-and-bytdwd.html (1332 words)

	Hypotyposeis: Tel Dan Inscription Follow-Up
		This other forgery could well be a "missing piece" from the Tel Dan Inscription, because the publicly-known fragments of the Tel Dan Inscription do not constitute the entirety of the inscription.
		So, if it ever turns out that a missing piece of the Tel Dan Inscription has found its way into a private collection (and sold for big bucks under the guise that it was pilfered from the archaeological dig), then, for me, the specter of forgery would be huge.
		I don't think the Tel Dan stele would ever have been doubted if it had not proven difficult for the Copenhagen school to fit into their theories.
	www.hypotyposeis.org /weblog/2005/02/tel-dan-inscription-follow-up.html (2277 words)

	Ralph the Sacred River: The Tel Dan Inscription
		I've stayed out of the discussion about the Tel Dan inscription, but since Stephen Carlson is showing signs of hospitality to the idea that it is a forgery, I'll put in my two cents.
		So, to return to the Dan inscription, I agree with you that it is extremely unlikely that it was forged and buried in the ruins of ancient Dan, while recognizing that arguments can be found even for basically untenable positions.
		The Tel Dan inscription is important because, as Cryer, Lemche, and Gmirkin have convincingly shown, there are questions about it that need to be answered before we can be satisfied that it is authentic.
	ralphriver.blogspot.com /2005/02/tel-dan-inscription.html (1628 words)

	Abnormal Interests: The Tell Dan Stele and Bayes' Method (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The rich and pervasive theological nature of the various Biblical texts combined with the fact that few, if any of them, are contemporaneous with the events they describe can well be seen as contaminating any and all historical evidence within them and therefore reducing their value as historical sources to little or nothing.
		However, I can not help but wonder how West, for example, would interpret the Tell Dan stele if David had had the same, relatively small, number of verses applied to him as was spent on, say, Omri.
		A final remark, the dispute underlying the discussion of the Tell Dan stele is a difficult one for a layperson to get a handle on.
	www.telecomtally.com /blog/2005/09/the_tell_dan_st.html (1159 words)

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		Dan Iron Age gate complex from north, tb n052701.jpg
		Dan Iron Age gate complex, tb n011500.jpg
		Shishak Stele fragment from Megiddo, dg 051301.jpg
	www.bibleplaces.com /Index8vols.txt (9747 words)

	Tell Dan
		These springs are some of the strongest springs in the area issuing forth from a fractured basalt hill near the base of Mt. Hermon.
		A portion of a basalt stele with a 9th or 8th century BC inscription "House of David" (Kingdom of Judah) was found by an archaeological expedition digging at the site.
		This high place may have been in use between the 10th/9th - 8th/7th centuries BC according to archaeologist William Dever, that is from times close to the reign of Solomon until the Assyrian conquest.
	home.att.net /~d.q.hall/tell_dan.htm (234 words)

	Tel Dan Inscription
		What is the historical significance of the correlation between the contents of this stele and the location of its discovery?
		Schniedewind, William M. "Tel Dan Stela: New Light on Aramaic and Jehu's Revolt." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 302 (May 1996) 75-90.
		Thompson, Thomas L. "Dissonance and Disconnections: Notes on the bytdwd and hmlk.hdd Fragments from Tel Dan." Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 9.2 (1995) 236-40.
	www.kchanson.com /ANCDOCS/westsem/teldan.html (380 words)

	Heeeeere's Johnny! - Campus Watch
		In fact, the northern kingdom of Israel was known in the Assyrian records as mât bît Humri, "the land of the House of Omri." That king and his dynasty were also mentioned in the 9th c.
		Aramean stele found in Tel Dan in northern Israel, probably erected by King Hazael, king of Aram-Damascus, a power player of the time.
		The stele mentions byt dwd, "the House of David" (i.e., the Davidic dynasty in Judah) in parallel to "Israel" (i.e., the northern kingdom).
	www.campus-watch.org /article/id/1934 (1552 words)

	Dr Cathey's Blog: Tel Dan - A Response (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Epigraphers, I believe, have convincingly shown that the Tel Dan stele refers to the House of David.
		I do not read of any other David that the stele could be making mention of in the history of Israel.
		To suggest that the David on the stele is some unknown figure of Israel or Judah does not do the stele justice.
	drcatheysblog.blogspot.com /2005/12/tel-dan-response.html (585 words)

	Hypotyposeis: Tel Dan Inscription and André Lemaire
		The Tel Dan inscription was found at an archeological site in Israel in 1993 and contains what may be the earliest reference to the historical David.
		K. Hanson, "The Tel Dan Inscription" [May 2, 2002]; and William Schniedewind's course materials for Semitics 230 at UCLA [Fall 2003]).
		Nearly two years before the discovery of the Tel Dan fragment, I concluded that the Mesha stela contains a reference to the "House of David." Now the Tel Dan fragment tends to support this conclusion.
	www.hypotyposeis.org /weblog/2005/02/tel-dan-inscription-and-andr-lemaire.html (497 words)

	David - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The strongest argument for the historicity of King David is the area of specific agreement between the Bible and the Tel Dan stele.
		The Tel Dan stele presents David as a king, most likely a Hebrew, and the founder of a dynasty called "the house of David." At the time the stele was carved, this dynasty had thus far lasted approximately one or two centuries.
		The problem is that the area of agreement between the biblical content and the Tel Dan stele, though recognized by the majority of Bible scholars, is tiny compared with the great amount of material about David in the Bible.
	enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/David (3781 words)

	Chinese Calligraphy around Jin Dynasty
		(Because stone stele was banned, calligraphy had to depend mostly on paper, which contributed to the thriving of the style.)
		What contributed to the flourishing of stone steles in Northern Dynasties was the spread of Buddhism, first introduced to China from central Asia around 100 AD.
		It was not until 589 that the Sui Dynasty came to power and reunified China, paving the way for long period of prosperity.
	www.rice-paper.com /uses/calligraphy/history/jin.html (597 words)

	VUW Chaplaincies / Issues / Competing Visions of a Christian Aproach to Intergenerational Public Policy
		Two significant examples are the inscription of Shishak and the Tel Dan stele.
		It is called 'the Israel stele' because it proclaims that, among those conquered in Canaan, 'Israel is laid waste, without seed'.
		That is far from saying Israel was a nation or occupying the whole land, indeed other lines in the stele imply she did not, but clearly she was there, perhaps, we may speculate, in the process of taking possession of the land.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /chaplains/issues/on-solid-ground.html (5506 words)

	Calvin Seminars in Christian Scholarship - Christian Scholarship... for What? - James VanderKam
		The Tell Dan stele changed that with one word; this was the first extra-biblical reference in an ancient Semitic text to David and his house, attesting its existence at a time uncomfortably early for the scholars noted above who postulate a relatively late beginning of the Israelite kingdoms.
		As one example, consider this claim: “And archaeology surprisingly reveals that the people who lived in those villages [that is, the early Israelite villages in the highlands] were indigenous inhabitants of Canaan who only gradually developed an ethnic identity that could be termed Israelite.” (98).
		Biran and Naveh, “The Tel Dan Inscription: A New Fragment,”
	www.calvin.edu /scs/2001/conferences/125conf/papers/vanderka.htm (5445 words)

	2001karkom01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To the left is the famous and controversial Dan Inscription.
		It threw the so-called Biblical Minimalists into a dither when this inscription in an ancient form of Aramaic was found in the plaza outside the Iron Age gate at Tell Dan.
		On the fragment there is a reference to "the house of David." This is the only extra-biblical reference to David ever found.
	www.netdoor.com /com/umcos/2001various01.html (240 words)

	biblicalia » Blog Archive » “House of David” and BYTDWD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It’s apparent he’s not at all convinced by the explicit example of another ruler, Adin of Til-Barsip, whose territory was called Bīt-Adini, “House of Adin”, a pattern of usage which is exactly parallel to the Tel Dan stele Aramean ביתדוד, Bêt-Dawid, “House of David,”; a territory known internally/alternately as Judah.
		While I agree that the Tel Dan inscription refers to Judah as the ‘house of ‘David,’; I think it is a bit of a leap to say that this is “evidence for an earlier David being on a throne in that area”.
		What it indicate is that the Judean royal house referred to themselves as the ‘house of David’;.
	www.bombaxo.com /blog/?p=30 (1320 words)

	Biblical Archaeology Society
		Read about the discovery of one of the greatest finds of the 20th century: a remarkable inscription from the ninth century B.C.E. that bears the first mention of David outside the Bible.
		Davies suggests that the critical phrase in the Dan inscription does not necessarily mean "House of David" but that it could just as easily be translated as "House of Uncle" or "House of Kettle".
		Pointing out the errors he finds in Philip Davies's interpretation of the Dan inscriptions, Anson Rainey argues that the inscriptions on the Dan stele and the Moabite Stone sound the death knell to the minimalists' conceit that Solomon and David are fictional characters.
	www.easycart.net /ecarts/bib-arch/Explore_King_David_Inscriptions.html (234 words)

	Stele « WordPress.com
		I am happy to see that the Tel Dan stele is getting some very good press.
		Research Bibliography - Tel Dan Stele — 5 comments
		Historical Methodology and the Tel Dan Stele - Chris Heard
	wordpress.com /tag/stele (261 words)

	[b-hebrew] question re: Tel Dan stela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As one of those who formerly (1995, just before discovery of Fragment B) made another point out of the BYTDWD in Tel Dan, I only want to add (what you already know very well, George): convincing, and the actual formulation: vivid and brilliant.
		The problem with this reasoning is that it would require the phrase in the Tel Dan Stele to actually read: [ML]K.DWD -- in other words, the element BYT should not be there.
		This would see the Tel Dan Stele, which I date to c.795 BC (written by Bar-Hadad, son of Hazael), being a witness to some sort of state entity in Jerusalem.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-hebrew/2004-May/018658.html (327 words)

	HUC-JIR \| The Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology
		House of David stele, Middle Bronze Age mudbrick gate, Israelite High Place, "tree of life" monument, bilingual "God who is in Dan" inscription
		We will continue digging in Area B, into the Iron II and Iron I levels, to complete the architectural plans and enhance our ability to carry out spatial analysis of houses and neighborhoods, to understand lifestyle, economy, social identity (ethnicity) and political organization.
		Here we are interested in the demise of Dan's settlement at the end of the Iron Age, perhaps the Babylonians were responsible.
	www.huc.edu /newspubs/pressroom/2006/2/TelDan2006b.shtml (285 words)

	Lists « Dr. Cathey’s Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Likewise to cast dispersions on the stele simply because it doesn't agree with your Weltanschauung is absurd.
		Tel Dan gives us some of the best evidence for the historical David – no matter what the minimalists say nor no matter how much they do exegetical gymnastics on the mysterious “Dod.” I would recalcitrant if I did not identify the double edged swords which is inherent in the Stele.
		The (Israel) Stele of Merneptah – This remarkable stele gives us some of the best evidence for Israel in Canaan by the 13th Century BCE.
	drjosephrcathey.wordpress.com /tag/lists (3455 words)

	Guide Ancient Treasures and the Dead Sea Scrolls by David Steinberg
		Biblical minimalists have suggested that some errors in the text should call into question the stele's authenticity.
		Victory Steles of the Enemies of Israel vs. Biblical Minimalist
		These steles establish that, even if we cannot recover much reliable information about the history of Israel and Judah before about 900 BCE, Israel and Judah did exist, Judah was ruled by a dynasty founded by David and that the national god of these kingdoms was YHWH.
	www.houseofdavid.ca /treas_dss.htm (3364 words)

	King David and King Solomon: History or Myth? Jewish Mythology. AskWhy! Publications.
		Much vaunted as the clearest is in the ninth century BC Tel Dan inscription found in fragments of a monument in 1993 by Israeli archaeologist Avraham Biran.
		R Chapman says the stele, historically dated to 825-800 BC, came from a level conventionally dated to the 10th or 11th centuries BC.
		Unlike other old stelae in which the cuts are damaged, there seems little sign of such natural wear even though the monument had been broken into pieces and incorporated into a wall where it had lain weathering for almost three millennia.
	prophetess.lstc.edu /~rklein/Doc6/dsmyth.htm (8445 words)

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