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    The Mesha Stele details the victories of King Mesha of Moab over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. It was found at Dibon, the capital of Moab, and dated to the ninth century BCE.The stone contains 34 lines of text, which have been translated into English. The italicized portions of the text, though likely, are not certain.
    • The Moabite Stone

      A product of archaeological looting, the Mesha Stele, or Moabite Stone, provides another instance of the value of unprovenanced Biblical artifacts, that is, Bible artifacts found outside of a professional excavation.Although the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) have strict policies regarding the publication of articles and the ...

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    A product of archaeological looting, the Mesha Stele, or Moabite Stone, provides another instance of the value of unprovenanced Biblical artifacts, that is, Bible artifacts found outside of a professional excavation.Although the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) have strict policies regarding the publication of articles and the ...
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    Jan 11, 2023Based on references within the text, Lemaire and Delorme believe that King Mesha commissioned the stone around 810 BCE, toward the end of his reign. Other scholars date the stone to c. 840 BCE and connect the events detailed in it to those of 2 Kings 3, which describes Mesha's war against the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom.
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    Dec 5, 2024History Written in Stone. How the Mesha Stele—also called the Moabite Stone—became public is an incredible tale itself. As described in Bible History Daily: [The] black basalt Moabite Stone was first brought to the attention of scholars in 1868 by Bedouin living east of the Jordan River and just north of the Arnon River. After several ...
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    Dec 31, 2024The most famous Moabite king—from the archaeological record at least—is Mesha. The large inscription he left behind is the longest Moabite text. Dating to the ninth century B.C.E., the Mesha Stele describes how King Mesha rescued the Moabites from Israelite rule.
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    Aug 25, 2023The Mesha Stele and "House of David" take center stage yet again. In the Winter 2022 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, André Lemaire and Jean-Philippe Delorme examined the possible reference to the dynasty of King David of the Bible in the Mesha Stele, a Moabite inscription from the ninth century BCE.Their article, "Mesha's Stele and the House of David," explored new ...
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    Based on this new photographic evidence, we believe that five key letters, found in line 31 of the inscription, can be read as btdwd.First, it is important to note that the bet (first letter) and the waw (fourth letter) were already clear on both the stone and the squeeze and, therefore, accepted by most scholars even prior to the new photographs. As such, we focus our discussion on what the ...
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    May 10, 2023The Mesha Stele and "House of David" take center stage yet again. In the Winter 2022 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, André Lemaire and Jean-Philippe Delorme examined the possible reference to the dynasty of King David of the Bible in the Mesha Stele, a Moabite inscription from the ninth century BCE.Their article, "Mesha's Stele and the House of David," explored new ...
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    Aug 25, 2023In fact, our article does note that the Mesha stone is "heavily abraded in many areas" (p. 54, quoting Nathaniel Greene and Heather Parker). More importantly, while the damaged state of the inscription and squeeze could account for the lack of probative evidence for a taw , we must consider another equally possible explanation for this ...
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