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Archaeological evidences for King David

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    “In 1992, French scholar André Lemaire proposed the following translation: [Mesha Stele] “[to herd] the small cattle of the land, and Horonen, in it dwelt the house of [D]avid ….”. This was a year before the Tel Dan discovery. But the phrase turned out to be in similar form—in this case, missing the initial “d”.”   Christopher Eames   January 28, 2021 Christopher Eames wrote: The Three ‘David’ Inscriptions | ArmstrongInstitute.org     The Three ‘David’ Inscriptions   Chances are you’ve heard of the famous one from Tel Dan—here are two more.   Closeup of the Tel Dan Stele (cropped)   I n 1993, the discovery of an inscription in northern Israel rocked the archaeological world. Contained within the ninth-century b.c.e. script was the following word: ביתדוד ,   bytdwd,  translated as “House of David.”   This inscription was revolutionary. To that point,  no arch...
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New King of Egypt who knew not Joseph

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  by   Damien F. Mackey   “Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph”.   Exodus 1:8     Introduction   Did not know Joseph? The same sort of thing is repeated in Acts 7:18: “Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt”.   But surely everyone in Egypt knew about the great Joseph who had saved the country, and its neighbours, from a severe seven-year Famine. As the sage Vizier, Imhotep, Joseph’s reputation would only go on increasing down through the ages, until, by the Ptolemaïc era, he was a veritable canonised and divinised thaumaturgist to whom the hopeful Egyptians and pilgrims would pray for cures and other needs.   Imhotep - Wikipedia “Two thousand years after his death, Imhotep's status had risen to that of a god of medicine and  healing . Eventually, Imhotep was equated with  Thoth , the god of architecture, mathematics, and medicine, and patron of...
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