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New Find in Israel Confirms Sophisticated Kingdom of David

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz : Apr 30, 2018
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"The Tel Dan Stele absolutely one hundred percent proves that King David existed. It refutes any claim that King David was merely a story." -AnaRina Heymann

(Israel)— [Breakingisraelnews.com] Archaeologists, aided by burrowing mole rats, discovered a building in the valley below the hills of Hebron attributed to the kingdom of Biblical King David. The discovery is a milestone in the ongoing debate over the veracity of Biblical King David as a historical figure with most archaeologists now looking to the Bible as having a factual basis. (Screengrab: Tel 'Eton Aerial View/Biblewalks.com/via YouTube)

"Until 25 years ago no one doubted that King David was a historical figure,” Professor Avraham Faust, director of the archaeological dig, told Breaking Israel News. “In the last 25 years or so, however, David’s historicity, and especially the size of his kingdom, are hotly debated."

"The new discovery at Tel 'Eton, located in the Judean Shephelah to the east of the Hebron hills, seems to suggest that the highland kingdom controlled larger areas than some scholars believe," Faust added.

The dig, led by Professor Faust and Yair Sapir of Bar-Ilan University, is at Tel Eton, in the valley near the Hebron hills, approximately 30 miles south of Jerusalem...

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