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André Lemaire and Jean-Philippe Delorme, “Mesha’s Stele and the House of David,” BAR, Winter 2022.
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Siegfried H. Horn, “Why the Moabite Stone Was Blown to Pieces,” BAR, May/June 1986.
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André Lemaire, “‘House of David’ Restored in Moabite Inscription,” BAR, May/June 1994.
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On the squeeze, Lemaire and Delorme draw (in red) the top-right extremity of the X clearly above the “nose” of the letter bet to its right (the nose is the left-hand angle of the triangle that is the head of bet). And yet in their drawing of taw on the stone, the taw does not extend above that “nose.”
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For recent scholarly analyses of the stela based on new photographic evidence, see Heather Parker, The Levant Comes of Age: The Ninth Century BCE Through Script Traditions, 2 vols., Ph.D. Dissertation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2013), p. 171; Michael Langlois, “The Kings, the City and the House of David on the Mesha Stele in Light of New Imaging Techniques,” Semitica 61 (2019), pp.
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