Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- 1 Hazael's empire in recent scholarship
- 2 History and the Bible
- 3 Hazael's empire in archaeological sources
- 4 Hazael's empire in West-Semitic epigraphic sources
- 5 The Assyrian inscriptions of Shalmaneser III
- 6 The Assyrian inscriptions of Adad-nirari III
- 7 The Eponyms
- 8 Commentary on the Assyrian sources
- 9 Hazael in extra-biblical sources: a conclusion
- 10 The Hazael paradigm in the books of Kings
- 11 The Hazael paradigm in the book of the Twelve
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Hazael's empire in West-Semitic epigraphic sources
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- 1 Hazael's empire in recent scholarship
- 2 History and the Bible
- 3 Hazael's empire in archaeological sources
- 4 Hazael's empire in West-Semitic epigraphic sources
- 5 The Assyrian inscriptions of Shalmaneser III
- 6 The Assyrian inscriptions of Adad-nirari III
- 7 The Eponyms
- 8 Commentary on the Assyrian sources
- 9 Hazael in extra-biblical sources: a conclusion
- 10 The Hazael paradigm in the books of Kings
- 11 The Hazael paradigm in the book of the Twelve
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
4.1 THE TEL DAN INSCRIPTION
4.1.1 Introduction
As indicated in Chapter 3, strata VI—IV at Dan correspond to a phase when Dan belonged to the Aramaean kingdom of Beth Ma'acha and then to the Aramaean kingdom of Beth-Rehob. This phase ended with the Omrides' conquest of the city, under the reign of Omri, at the first half of the ninth century, and then Hazael's re-conquest of it around the mid-ninth century BCE.
Dan III represents the period of Hazael's occupation of the city, which became the largest city of the area during the second half of the ninth century. Dan II corresponds to the Israelite occupation of the city when it was conquered by Joash or Jeroboam II around the second quarter of the eighth century BCE. Dan I represents the Assyrian occupation of the city.
The Tel Dan Inscription can now be reconsidered on the basis of this new sequence of Iron Age
Dan. So far, three fragments from the inscription have been recovered. Despite intense efforts to find more, there is little hope of finding other fragments in the near future. The three fragments were published immediately by A. Biran and J. Naveh. They contain ancient Aramaic letters inscribed with a chisel on the surface of a flat basalt stone (Lemche 2003: 53).
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- The Elisha-Hazael Paradigm and the Kingdom of IsraelThe Politics of God in Ancient Syria-Palestine, pp. 37 - 80Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2013