My article on the Tel Dan stele was published in the prestigious Israel Exploration Journal!

I gave this paper at a conference celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the stele’s discovery.

This inscription is famous for its mention of the “House of David,” which is also attested on the Mesha stele, as I demonstrated in a previous article.

As for the Tel Dan inscription, my study shows that the three fragments have been wrongly glued together and that they actually correspond to two different sections of the stele or to two sister steles.

You can read my paper here:

Michael Langlois, “The Tel Dan Inscription after 30 Years: A Fresh Look,” Israel Exploration Journal 74, no. 2 (2024): 59–79.

For more on the Tel Dan stele, you can watch an interview I gave to the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology (AIBA):

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