Episode 17 - The Moabite Stone
Update: 2023-06-09
Description
F. A. Klein, a German missionary, discovered a large inscribed stone in Dibon (now Dhiban) in Jordan in 1868. Klein's discovery became known as the Moabite Stone or Mesha Stele.
What is the significance of the Moabite Stone?
According to the Louvre, it "represents one of the most important direct accounts of world history that is related in the Bible." Ernest Renan, a French expert on Semitic languages and civilizations, called it "the most important discovery ever made in the field of Oriental epigraphy!"
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