--- quoting THE NEW YORKER-- In Search of King David's Lost Empire ---
The Bible, of course, tells it differently. In the Old Testament story, Canaan is where the Hebrews ended their exodus, and where David secured for his people a glorious kingdom. From about 1,000 B.C., he and his son Solomon ruled over a vast monarchy that encompassed four defeated kingdoms, stretching as far north as the Euphrates River and as far south as the Negev Desert. (Archeologists derive the date from an inscription on a portal gate in the Egyptian city of Karnak, which lists the military conquests of King Shoshenq—thought to be the same king mentioned in the Bible as Shishak.) The United Monarchy, as it is known, represented the golden age of ancient Israel; though it probably lasted no more than a generation or two, its legacy has persisted for thousands of years. For Jews, Finkelstein told me, David “represents territorial sovereignty, the legend of the empire.” For Christians, he is “directly related to Jesus and the birth of Christianity.” For Muslims, he is a righteous prophet who preceded Muhammad. The story of David, Finkelstein added, “is the most central thing in the Bible, and in our culture.”
The Bible depicts David as a brilliant but flawed figure, capable of unspeakable violence but also of remorse and tenderness—perhaps humanity’s first antihero. He is anointed by God to replace Saul, the first king of Israel, whose short rule was marked by bouts of rebellion. David is a handsome shepherd; he has a way with the lyre and a way with women; he slings a fatal stone at a giant. So far, these are the familiar tropes of the ancient hero. But David is also said to have impregnated Bathsheba—a married woman—and sent her husband off to die in battle.
Nadav Na’aman, an authority on Jewish history and a colleague of Finkelstein’s at Tel Aviv University, describes David’s story as “extraordinary fiction.” But he believes that it contains kernels of truth, preserved as the tale was passed down by oral tradition. The story, for instance, frequently mentions the Philistine city of Gath, which was destroyed in the late ninth century B.C.—a clue to its origins.
In the long war over how to reconcile the Bible with historical fact, the story of David stands at ground zero. There is no archeological record of Abraham, or Isaac, or Jacob. There is no Noah’s Ark, nothing from Moses. Joshua did not bring down the walls of Jericho: they collapsed centuries earlier, perhaps in an earthquake. But, in 1993, an Israeli archeologist working near the Syrian border found a fragment of basalt from the ninth century B.C., with an Aramaic inscription that mentioned the “House of David”—the first known reference to one of the Bible’s foundational figures. So David is not just a central ancestor in the Old Testament. He may also be the only one that we can prove existed. Yet to prove it definitively would be exceptionally difficult; Jerusalem of the tenth century B.C. is an archeological void. “I can take a shoebox and put inside everything we have from that period,” Yuval Gadot, an archeologist from Tel Aviv University, said.
Finkelstein has pushed Israeli research to the forefront of science, employing precision radiocarbon dating, DNA analysis, and image processing that can examine a three-thousand-year-old potsherd and determine how many ancient scribes were involved in its making. An archeology lab run by Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science has employed the chief forensic investigator of the Israel Police. Despite their advanced technology, these researchers are still engaged in questions that have persisted for more than a century. From where did the early Israelites emerge? When do we first see signs of a centralized cult with a single deity? More prosaically, but no less crucially, who was David? Was he the all-powerful king described in the Bible? Or was he, as some archeologists believe, no more than a small-time Bedouin sheikh?
--- end quoting THE NEW YORKER-- In Search of King David's Lost Empire ---
The article mentions Israel was in Syria but not as far north as Turkey.
It said "He rules over a neglected chiefdom of pastoralists and outlaws. His name is David."
"King David-- the vagabond, the racketeer--"
"The Israelites, he claimed, were "of local stock"-- that is, Bedouin nomads."
" The Bible, of course, tells it differently."
"stretching as far north as the Euphrates River and as far south as the Negev Desert."
"There is no archeological record of Abraham, or Isaac, or Jacob. There is no Noah's Ark, nothing from Moses. Joshua did not bring down the walls of Jericho: they collapsed centuries earlier, perhaps in an earthquake."
"But, in 1993, an Israeli archeologist working near the Syrian border found a fragment of basalt from the 9th century B.C. with an Aramic inscription that mentioned the "House of David"-- the first known reference to one of the Bible's foundational figures."
"He may also be the only one that we can prove existed."
AP, looking up where the Euphrates River is-- is it in Southern Turkey?????
Yes, yes indeed the Euphrates River is in southern Turkey.
Bibi, after you annex Rafah, and Gaza strip, will you turn your attention of illegal settlements along the Euphrates River????
AP, worried that rogue Israel at the rate it is going will spark nuclear ww3 because of its constant, nonstop stealing of land to regain Ancient King David's land.
Russia is fast steal of Ukraine with genocide. Israel is slow steal of land with genocide.
But here in USA and in UK we still have Paleolithic minds such as Joe Biden and Antony Blinken who recently want to sanction the ICC for their warrants of arrest on Netanyahu and his defense minister Gallant.
I believe this post is the reason for the below hacker post to destroy this newsgroup. Not my posts on DeBroglie Pilot Wave as claimed, but rather because this post which wants to see the End of 80 year Occupation of Palestine-West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, southern Syria and now southern Lebanon, ---- genocide and land steal---.Google an odd request in this below email, and none of your logo pictures. I suspect that someone is trying to destroy this newsgroup, and my hope is that you can make use of this information.Google, please, attention: I believe this is not you but some hackers whose aim is to destroy this newsgroup.Google, please, I suspect some organization is trying to tear down entirely this newsgroup.--- quoting a recent email------ end quoting a recent email---