Archaeological Discovery Point to King David as a H Historical Person

 According to the Bible,  King David of Israel lived in the 11th century B. C. E. and his descendants ruled for hundreds of  years.  But some critics  argued that King David is a myth, a tribal legend created much later.  Was  King David a real person?

In 1993, archaeologist Awraham Biran and his team discovered a stone fragment at Tel Dan, northern Israel, bearing an inscription that refers to the "House of David."  The inscription, in an ancient Semitic script, dates to the ninth century B.C.E.  It was evidently part of a monument erected by the Arameans, boasting of victories over the Israelites. 

An article in the Bible History Daily states:  "The "House of David' inscription has it skeptics . . . . However, most  Biblical scholars and archaeologists readily accepted that the Tel Dan stela had supplied the first concrete proof of a historical King David from the Bible,  making it one of the top Biblical archaeology discoveries reported in BAR (Biblical Archaeology Review]." 

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