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  2. The Mesha Stele, whatever its specific genre (this is debated by scholars), is definitely a piece of political propaganda. Its purpose is to portray Mesha as a Kemosh-driven savior of the Moabites from their enemies, chief of which was Israel under Omri and his sons. His presentation of Gad as a native tribe that was "conquered" by Israel ...
  3. The Mesha Stele is a royal inscription, written in autobiographical style from Mesha king of Moab, describing how Israel (the Northern Kingdom) conquered land in the Transjordan—what the Bible calls the mishor, "the flat land" [1] —and how Mesha eventually won it back:
  4. Mesha's Transjordanian Conquests. In the Transjordan this type of realignment and reconstruction of identity seems to have been common. A number of examples are suggested by the inscription of Mesha, king of Moab (in the Transjordan) in the ninth century BCE. Mesha himself is a major character in the story told in 2 Kings 3.
  5. This very city is mentioned in the famous Mesha Stela, which dates to the 9 th century B.C.E. and records the success of the Moabite king, Mesha, against a descendent of the Israelite king, Omri (presumably Ahab). As part of the description of his success, Mesha explains the background for the war between Moab and the Northern Kingdom of Israel:
  6. [3] Of enduring usefulness with regard to the Mesha Stele is: Andrew Dearman (ed), Studies in the Mesha Inscription and Moab (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989). [4] "Son" here could be referring either to Omri's literal son Ahab, or perhaps to Omri's grandson Jehoram, who came to the throne after the very brief reign of his brother Ahaziah.
  7. The implication from Deuteronomy 33:2 that Ashdot-hapisgah was a holy spot for the Israelites fits with the Mesha inscription, a 9 th century inscribed stele describing how Mesha, king of Moab, conquered territory that had been previously taken from Moab by King Omri of Israel: ויאמר לי כמש לך אחז את נבה על ישראל.
  8. [8] Editor's note: For some discussion of the Mesha inscription and its relevance to Israelite settlement in the area, see David Ben-Gad HaCohen, "War at Yahatz: The Torah Versus the Mesha Stele," TheTorah.com (2015); Israel Finkelstein and Thomas Römer, "North Israelite Memories of the Transjordan and the Mesha Inscription ...
  9. Even the Mesha inscription, which does describe Israelite presence in Transjordan, describes this as beginning with the 9 th Century Israelite King Omri. Although Mesha says that the people of Gad had "always" lived in the land of Atarot, [17] he seems to be claiming that they are "native Transjordanians", rather than Israelites. What ...
  10. Ataroth is an obscure Transjordanian city, referenced only twice in the Bible. Nevertheless, due to modern archaeological discoveries, it has become a central piece of evidence for reconstructing the history of the Moabite rebellion against Israel and King Mesha's expansion of the Moabite kingdom described in both 2 Kings and the Mesha Stele.
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