A Davidic-era personal name recovered from the dirt west of Jerusalem

    It may seem a small thing, but it strikes me as a nonetheless significant blow against the so-called biblical “minimalists” and for the historicity of the biblical narrative:   http://www.timesofisrael.com/inscript...   The minimalists seem to me weirdly disconnected from the physical, archaeological reality of Palestine.  They tend, on the whole, to treat the Bible