Mahri Leonard-Fleckman compares the house of . . . terminology in the ninth-century Tel Dan inscription with early first-millennium Assyrian usage and examines the house of David in 2 Samuel and 1 Kings. She argues that the house of David was a small body politic around David, but distinct from any Judean dynastic context. The equation with Judah with a later southern kingdom resulted from the redactional creation of a Davidic coterie.
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Mahri Leonard-Fleckman compares the house of . . . terminology in the ninth-century Tel Dan inscription with early first-millennium Assyrian usage and examines the house of David in 2 Samuel and 1 Kings. She argues that the house of David was a small body politic around David, but distinct from any Judean dynastic context. The equation with Judah with a later southern kingdom resulted from the redactional creation of a Davidic coterie.
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