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The Dan Debate - The Tel Dan Inscription in Recent Research (Hardcover, New)
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The Dan Debate - The Tel Dan Inscription in Recent Research (Hardcover, New)
Series: Recent Research in Biblical Studies, No. 4
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The Tel Dan inscription was found in three fragments on Tel Dan in
northern Israel in 1993 and 1994. It is one of the most
controversial textual archaeological finds since the discovery of
the Dead Sea Scrolls. Most scholars agree that the text, which is
written in Old Aramaic, is to be dated to the late ninth century
BCE. It refers to a war between the Aramaeans and the northern
kingdom of Israel. The text is apparently represented as authored
by King Hazael of Damascus, and many scholars have discerned the
names of the kings Jehoram and Ahaziah of Israel and Judah in the
fragmented text. There has been an extremely lively, and even
heated, debate over both its language and its content, and it is
time that a full survey of the debate should be undertaken. In his
previous book, The Tel Dan Inscription: A Critical Investigation of
Recent Research on its Palaeography and Philology (2006)--now
distributed by Sheffield Phoenix Press--Hallvard Hagelia has
examined those more technical aspects of the debate. In the present
corollary volume, The Dan Debate: The Tel Dan Inscription in Recent
Research, Hagelia analyses the debate on all the other more general
aspects of the inscription. His own view is to support the joining
of the fragments as it is done by the editors, Biran and Naveh, and
to translate the controversial term bytdwd as 'House of David'. The
debate on the Tel Dan is interesting and significant in itself, but
it can also be viewed as a case study of the wider debate between
the so-called 'minimalists' and 'maximalists' in Hebrew Bible
scholarship. In particular Hagelia's two books offer an notable
exchange of views with George Athas's The Tel Dan Inscription: A
Reappraisal and a New Interpretation (2003).
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