In the Hebrew Bible, King David is famous for slaying the Philistine giant Goliath and expanding Israel into a large kingdom centered in Jerusalem. However, archaeological evidence for King David ...

Archaeologists in southern Israel have discovered an ancient biblical city from the time of King David. The site was discovered near the modern city of Kiryat Gat by researchers from the Hebrew ...

king of the House of David.” It is dated to 900 BCE. At the stele’s debut at the Jewish Museum in New York, museum director James S. Snyder called it “the lightning bolt of intersection ...

King David was not born into royalty ... With Israel’s army in headlong retreat, the Philistines swarmed over the Hebrew highlands. Saul’s only surviving son, Ishbaal, was anointed as his ...

His article, published Monday in the Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology, a peer-reviewed publication of Hebrew University, supports the theory that King David ruled over a well-developed kingdom ...

[8] In the twelfth century, the colorful Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela related that during his stay in Jerusalem, he heard a fantastic story regarding the re-discovery of King David’s Tomb.

The king struggles with the idea that God no ... there are gratuitous scenes of David singing prayers in Hebrew. And David would feel far less exotic if he was just a white guy with red hair.

Last year, New York City’s Jewish Museum imported a new director from the Israel Museum. Now, it’s bringing the oldest archaeological evidence of the existence of King David from the Jerusalem ...