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Tel Dan Stela: New Light on Aramaic and Jehu's Revolt
William M. Schniedewind · 1996
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Document and modern access
- Type
- journal article
- Publication
- Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, vol. 302, 75-90
Records informed by this source
- date assertion Tel Dan Stele — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · contextualizes · historical setting
Provides attribution discussion.
- property Contextual record outside primary intervalEvidence confidence: highinforms · contextualizes · ninth-century dynastic reference
Shows later evidence relevant to an earlier Davidic claim.
- event Erection and later deposition of the Tel Dan Aramaic victory steleEvidence confidence: highinforms · proposes interpretation · bytdwd and historical setting
Provides major interpretation.
- claim The Tel Dan stele likely attests a dynasty called the House of David in the ninth century BCE, but it is later evidence and does not directly establish the tenth-century kingdom…Evidence confidence: highinforms · proposes interpretation · House of David analysis
Supports reading.
- entity Tel Dan SteleEvidence confidence: highinforms · proposes interpretation · bytdwd and historical analysis
Provides a major philological interpretation.
- relationship Tel Dan Stele — later dynastic attestation relevant to — David traditionsEvidence confidence: highinforms · proposes interpretation · bytdwd analysis
Supports relationship.
- date assertion Erection and later deposition of the Tel Dan Aramaic victory stele — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · proposes interpretation · bytdwd and historical setting
Provides major interpretation.
- event Formation and redaction of United Monarchy traditionsEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · House of David interpretation
Provides later dynastic evidence.
- ranked model United Monarchy scale and chronologyEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · House of David
Dynastic evidence.
- myth interpretation United Monarchy as remembered golden age and pan-Israelite political idealEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · later House of David
Supports dynastic memory.
- entity David traditionsEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · bytdwd discussion
Provides later external evidence commonly read as House of David.
- date assertion Formation and redaction of United Monarchy traditions — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · House of David interpretation
Provides later dynastic evidence.
- date assertion David traditions — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · bytdwd discussion
Provides later external evidence commonly read as House of David.
- date assertion United Monarchy tradition — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · later House of David reference
Provides later dynastic context.
- claim The United Monarchy debate is not a binary choice between a vast empire exactly as narrated and no historical Davidic or Jerusalem-centred polity.Evidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · House of David discussion
Supports dynasty without scale.
- claim Evidence for David combines later biblical traditions and a probable ninth-century dynastic reference rather than a contemporary royal archive.Evidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · House of David interpretation
Provides later external support.
- property assignment Tel Dan Stele — has property — Contextual record outside primary intervalEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides source criticism · chronology and bytdwd
Supports assignment.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · provides primary evidence · later House of David
Supports dynastic memory.