The Tel Dan Stele is significant because it discusses an entity called bytdwd, which most scholars read as beth David (“house of David”). If this reading is correct, the stele represents the only textual evidence supporting the historical existence of King David’s dynasty outside the Bible. A minority of scholars, however, read bytdwd as the name of a place and reject the idea that it has anything to do with David.
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