(August 20, 2012 at 1:26 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:5. The glorious Davidic empire (zero evidence apart from an inscription that mentions "House of David")
Maybe. I highly recommend George Athas: The Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Introduction
Athas finds it to be a place name.
Sure. But even if it WERE authentic, it's completely unconvincing of anything other than some-guy-named-David. It still wouldn't offer any proof of a grand empire that spanned from the Euphrates to the Sinai.
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