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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Tel Dan Stele
		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.
		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.
		The Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappaisal and a New Interpretation.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Tel_Dan_Stele (1402 words)

	Tel Dan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tel Dan ("Mound of Dan" תל דן in Hebrew), also known as Tel el-Qadi (Mound of the Judge in Arabic, literal translation of the Hebrew name Tel Dan, "Dan" being "judge", or "judging one"), is an archaeological site in Israel in the upper Galilee next to the Golan Heights.
		Within the remains of the city wall, close to the entrance of the outer gate, was found a fragment which seemingly was originally from a stele.
		This basalt fragment, the Tel Dan Stele, contains an Aramaic inscription, referring to one of the Aramaean kings of Damascus; most scholars believe that the king it refers to is Hazael (c 840BCE), though a minority argue that it instead refers to Ben-Hadad (c 802 BCE).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tel_Dan (376 words)

	Ancient Israel Research html
		The sloppy engraving of the stele (the first six lines slant to the left, before a correction in line 7) further suggests that the stele was not directly written by the conquering king or a professional scribe dedicated to the king’s service.
		This translation implies that the stele was commissioned by a vassal of the king depicted on the stele.
		The stele talks of the king of Israel, that much is clear, and in the context of the newly found fragments, it is apparent that a Judean king may be mentioned as well.
	homepages.nyu.edu /~ah527/archeology.html (6295 words)

	Hypotyposeis: Tel Dan Inscription Follow-Up
		Tel Dan Inscription Follow-Up I've been able to glean a little more information as to the provenance of the fragments that presently make up the Tel Dan 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)

	King David
		The new discovery was a piece of an inscribed monument or "stele." It was found by accident, as such things usually are, at an archaeological dig in the ruin ("tel") of the ancient city of Dan in northern Israel.
		Its occurrence in the Tel Dan stele does seem to support the Bible's claim that David was the founder of the country of Judah and its ruling family.
		The Tel Dan stele prompted the announcement of the discovery of the same expression, "the house of David" in another, previously known inscription.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/m/mckenzie-david.html (5500 words)

	Tel Dan Inscription
		"The Tel Dan Inscription: A New Fragment." Israel Exploration Journal 45 (1995) 1-18.
		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)

	biblicalia » Blog Archive » “House of David” and BYTDWD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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/?p=30 (1309 words)

	Higgaion » The Tel Dan blogabout
		Hadad is not the speaking voice in the Tel Dan stele.
		While I do think the Tel Dan stele does tell us that King David of Judah was not purely imaginary, it certainly doesn’t tell us anything else about his biography.
		The Tel Dan stele is, therefore, a “double-edged sword” when wielded in a discussion of the historical value of the Former Prophets.
	www.heardworld.com /higgaion/?p=269 (2139 words)

	Abnormal Interests: The Tell Dan Stele and Bayes' Method (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	Amazon.com: Profile For ploni_almoni: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Mesha stele refers to the Israelite king Omri (and possibly David); the Tel Dan stele very likely mentions the "House of David", and of course there are extensive Assyrian and Babylonian annals which mention many Israelite and Judahite kings and corroborate certain broad features of the history recounted in 1 and 2 Kings.
		Tel Dan stele), was little more than a regional chieftain presiding over a small 11th/10th c.
		Finkelstein engages in a bit of patricide in downdating Hazor, Gezer, and Megiddo from the 10th to the 9th century BCE, insisting that Yadin was misled by Solomon's biblical reputation as a builder.
	www.amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/A22641F8DZMZTH (4381 words)

	Heeeeere's Johnny! - Campus Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	biblicalia: "House of David" and BYTDWD
		We have the evidence here on one Aramean stele, that of Tel Dan, found outside of an Aramean territory, a rare find in and of itself, of a BT-...
		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".
	www.bombaxo.com /blog/2005/12/house-of-david-and-bytdwd.html (1332 words)

	[b-hebrew] question re: Tel Dan stela
		The Tel Dan Stele incorporates word dividers even in construct expressions -- witness line 8 of Fragment A and the expression MLK.Y$R)L. This makes the word BYTDWD particularly interesting.
		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/018646.html (482 words)

	Archaeology Thread - TheologyWeb Campus
		David himself was born after the Exodus, and the stele apparently refers to a king far along in the line of David, born some generations after David himself.
		Probably the most significant thing fro Tel Dan, other than the stele, was the alter that was placed there and the 'cult' that grew up around it.
		The Tel Dan inscription is interesting because it made fools out of the minimalist position in Archaeology, they said David did not exist but it claims other wise!
	www.theologyweb.com /forum/showthread.php?p=25313 (1885 words)

	David information - Search.com
		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.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/David (4005 words)

	Tel Dan Stele - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fragment A was discovered in 1993, and fragments B1 and B2, which fit together, were discovered in 1994.
		It is difficult to discern how long before that Assyrian conquest these earlier events took place.
		Rendsburg, Gary A. (1995) "On the Writing ביתדוד in the Aramaic Inscription from Tel Dan." Israel Exploration Journal 45, pp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tel_Dan_Stele (1403 words)

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	Civilization.ca - Ancient Treasures and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1993, archaeologists working at Tel Dan in the upper Galilee discovered a stele telling of the stunning victory of Hazael, King of the Arameans, over "70 kings," including the king of the House of David.
		It is all the more valuable in that it dates from barely 150 years after David took the throne.
		The Bible confirms these events, although its accounts differ from the stele on certain points.
	www.civilization.ca /civil/israel/isrel111e.html (180 words)

	Jerusalem
		According to Israeli Jerusalem Law, Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Israel, and is the center of Jerusalem District; it serves as the country's seat of government and otherwise functions as capital.
		Period," Jerusalem was the sole acting religious shrine in the kingdom and a center of regular pilgrimage.
		Although recent archaeological finds may push the date yet earlier (see Tel Dan Stele), around the ninth century BCE clear historical records begin to corroborate some of the biblical history, the kings of Judah become historically identifiable, and the significance the
	www.milechai.com /judaism/jerusalem.html (1234 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.
		The Tel Dan fragments are suspiciously fresh in their clarity.
	essenes.net /m44.htm (8445 words)

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		The inscribed stele, originally approximately one meter in height, mentions a "king of Israel" and a king of the "House of David", and is probably a victory stele erected by the king of Damascus after he "smote Iyon, Dan and Abel Beth-Ma'acah" (I Kings 15:20).
		Hence the "king of Israel" of the inscription may be identified with Baasha and the king of the "House of David" with Asa.
		The stele fragment, 28 x 30 cm., was found near the new Israelite gate uncovered this season along the southeastern border of a 400 square meter stone paved piazza.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/V01/v01.n005 (4035 words)

	Historical David - Faithfutures
		In the summer of 1993, a fragment of a stele with an inscription was found at the site of Tel Dan in northern Palestine.
		The second part of the name in the Tel Dan inscription is dwd.
		In the Mesha Stele, it seems to be used as a divine title for Yahweh, the ancient deity of Palestine and the name of God in the Bible.
	wiki.faithfutures.org /index.php?title=Historical_David (3874 words)

	King David
		First, the famous Tel Dan Stele provides the only clear extra-Biblical evidence of King David's existence and status as the founder of a Hebrew dynasty.
		A third possible mention of King David is found in a standing monumental Egyptian inscription of Pharaoh Shoshenq I (called Shishaq in the Bible) that is dated to 924 BCEâ”only about forty years after David's death as calculated according to the books of Kings and Chronicles.
		The objectivity of her archaeological research was called into question by Israeli newspapers, and by some fellow- archaeologists, due to her known links with settlers who try to establish themselves in Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem.
	www.photonicsknowledge.com /opticaldevices/King_David (4301 words)

	The Revision of Ancient History: Revised Chronologies
		The famous reference to Israel in Merenptah's stele was interpreted as a reference to Ramesses II /Shishak's campaigns to pacify Palestine and Syria, in which his son Merenptah served perhaps as an army General.
		Bimson writes 'In short, the full implications of the Tel Dan inscription for Iron Age stratigraphy and chronology have yet to be faced.
		Herzog according to an article in a recent Spectator [32], are denying the historical truth of the OT history, including the Sojourn, Conquest, and Solomonic eras, on the grounds that these, despite the Tel Dan stele, are not seen in the archaeological record.
	www.knowledge.co.uk /sis/ancient.htm (21313 words)

	Guide Ancient Treasures and the Dead Sea Scrolls by David Steinberg
		Victory Steles of the Enemies of Israel vs. Biblical Minimalist Claims Regarding the Early Israelite History
		Biblical minimalists have suggested that some errors in the text should call into question the stele's authenticity.
		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 (3355 words)

	The El Amarna Age
		The `Mesha Stele' problem then is this: The figure of 40 years in the `Mesha Stele' could mean 1) 40 literal years of oppression, 2) a figure of speech meaning 2 generations, 3) or a period of time similar to our counting of centuries.
		While the EA letters were written in cuneiform another inscription found at Tel Dan in 1994 mentions the `House of David'.
		Finkelstein and Silberman insist that it was Hazael who boasted in the Tell Dan Stele [2000] of killing these two kings.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /amarna.html (9185 words)

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