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Thirty-some years ago, excavators at Tel Dan pulled three broken pieces of basalt out of the ground, and six of the letters carved into them spell out something no other inscription clearly does: the house of David. This week, Dan M walks us through what the Tel Dan Stele actually says, why an Aramean king was bragging about killing two kings you can find in your Bible, and what it means that his version of events contradicts both biblical accounts. Also: how one hunk of stone helps date the oldest historical prose in the Hebrew Bible, and no, Steely Dan was not named after it. _______________________________________________ Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store: https://data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com/ _______________________________________________ Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma _______________________________________________ Listen to the podcast on every app: https://pod.link/1681418502 _______________________________________________ Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod Threads — https://www.threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod _______________________________________________ Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So: https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/ _______________________________________________ Chapters: 0:00 Steely Dan Jokes 1:18 What Is a Tel 2:06 Gates, Altars, Standing Stones 3:31 Three Fragments, One Inscription 4:19 Dating It to Hazael 5:00 The Chalk-Filled Letters 5:52 Dots Instead of Spaces 6:34 Bragstones and Royal Resumes 7:13 Reading the Inscription 9:04 Two Dead Kings 10:01 Kingdom Versus Dynasty 11:08 Evidence for a Historical David 12:30 Hazael in Second Kings 13:21 Jehu Drives Like a Maniac 13:53 Who Killed Ahaziah 16:22 Taking Credit for the Kill 17:53 Dating Kings and Chronicles 19:07 Who Really Killed Goliath 19:58 The Birth of Historical Prose 21:32 Poetry Came First 23:01 Story, Then Song 24:19 Steely Dan Came First _______________________________________________ #DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #TelDanStele #KingDavid #BiblicalArchaeology