David's 'Kingdom of Taita', David is Taita!

The Throne of David: The Exilarchate and the Role of Islam in the Return of Jesus, 2022

The paper shows evidence of the continuation of the descendants of David. It had been stated that there are no historians who wrote of the exilarchate. There have been a number of scholars who have done so. God made a Covenant unto David that his throne would last forever and that David would never lack a man to sit upon the throne of the house of David. While the kings were in exile this throne was protected by the imams, the successors of Muhammad.

Israel Affairs, 2020

Journal of Asian Evangelical Theology 24, 2020

This article is part of my ongoing project aimed at reading 1 and 2 Samuel as a unified work focusing on politics. My project reflects a recent trend in biblical scholarship, spearheaded by Yoram Hazony, of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, to read the Old Testament as primarily a work of philosophy rather than a religious document. Making an argument very similar to my own are Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes in their recent book, The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel. Their close exegesis of the lives of Saul and David provides abundant insights that are applicable “wherever and whenever political power is at stake.” In this paper I build on Halbertal and Holmes’s work while adding a comparative element, discussing similarities between 1 and 2 Samuel and a medieval Chinese novel, The Three Kingdoms.

The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King, eds. M. Zawanowska, M. Wilk, pp. 19–40, 2021

This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. chapter 1 David in History and in the Hebrew Bible Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò David, next to Moses, is one of the most studied biblical characters.1 The problem is, however, that this important figure has no clear extra-biblical reference, which makes reconstructing the historical David and his kingdom a difficult, if not an impossible, task. A short paper such as this cannot exhaustively examine scholarly literature on David, nor every mention of the son of Jesse in biblical literature. Therefore, this article's objective is solely to review extra-biblical sources, as well as selected biblical traditions related to this figure, to see whether at all, and if so, to what extent, they can be considered reliable historical sources, and on this basis to offer some general observations on the historical David.

Thanks to recent discoveries in Near Eastern archaeology and Hieroglyphic Luvian epigraphy, Taita, the king of the land of Palistin in Northern Levant, began to materialize. His carrier as well as his name can be fruitfully compared with Davids.

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It may be a logical step, now - if Hiram’s rule had really extended to Hamath, as Iarim-Lim - to identify Hiram further biblically as Joram (var. [H]adoram), the son of Tou of Hamath.

The David and Solomon's kingdoms are no longer considered as historical by minimalist archeologists. According to Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, for example, authors of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, at the time of the kingdoms of David and Solomon, Jerusalem was populated by only a few hundred residents or less, which is insufficient for an empire stretching from the Euphrates to Eilath. They suggest that due to religious prejudice, the authors of the Bible suppressed the achievements of the Omrides. Some Biblical minimalists like Thomas L. Thompson go further, arguing that Jerusalem became a city and capable of being a state capital only in the mid-seventh century. Likewise, Finkelstein and others consider the claimed size of Solomon's temple implausible. A review of methods and arguments used by these minimalists shows that they are impostors for writing history. The historical testimonies dated by a chronology anchored on absolute dates (backbone of history) are replaced by archaeological remains dated by carbon-14 (backbone of myths). The goal of these unfounded claims is clearly the charring of biblical accounts. https://www.lulu.com/shop/gerard-gertoux/kings-david-and-solomon-chronological-historical-and-archaeological-evidence/paperback/product-1r86w6my.html