Stele claims Damascene king killed members of House of David

Steven Fine: “People care about this stuff. They don’t care about the Middle Ages that much. They care about biblical history…and it’s part of the grappling with secularization that makes this so important to some people.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-rock-adds-evidence-of-king-davids-existence/#!

“…Rabbi David Wolpe, author of the 2014 book David: The Divided Heart, said in an interview that there was near-unanimous consensus among scholars that David existed. But Wolpe, of the Conservative Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, added that ‘the size and scope of his kingdom were probably far less than was once thought.’”

(“Scholars” discount David’s grand kingdom because of biblical accounts. A “scholar” will believe what is written in Egyptian hieroglyphics or Babylonian cuneiform, but not what is stated in Genesis or Kings or Joshua. Early Bible critics and archaeologists denied existence of the Hittites, claiming lack of physical evidence meant writers of biblical books made up the Anatolian empire. If Hittites never existed, then there could not have been a Uriah for David to send to the forefront of the battle. If one story was not true, then man should not believe any of the Bible.

(Archaeologists also claim Genesis 37 could not have happened as written – Joseph’s brothers saw “a company of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels …” – because camels had not been domesticated at the time. Here’s an unsubstantiated guess: Archaeologists have been wrong before, and new finds continually cast doubt on previous theories and statements, so there really is no reason to draw conclusions based only on artifacts.)

Link at maggiesfarm.