Footnote 1 – Searching For Saul
In 1993 archaeologists at Tel Dan, in northern Israel, discovered a ninth-century B.C.E. Aramaic inscription bearing the phrases Beth David (House of David) and Melech Yisrael (King of Israel)—the earliest extrabiblical references to David and his dynasty. See “‘David’ Found at Dan,” BAR 20:02; and Avraham Biran, “More Fragments from ‘David’ Stela Found at Dan,”