The REAL House of David (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

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.

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
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/2nldu9Ox6qA?si=h_ayUNV6dNWTkLsG