Minimalist

Anyway, back to the issue of who built the temple.

In his second book, David and Solomon from 2006, Finkelstein notes that Jerusalem was not mentioned as having been conquered by the Egyptian pharaoh, Sheshonq during his late 10th century raid.

" At the time of the Sheshonq campaign, Judah was still a marginal and isolated chiefdom in the southern highlands. Its poor material culture leaves no room to imagine great wealth in the Temple -- certainly not wealth large enough to appease an Egyptian pharaoh's appetite. From the archaeological information we must to a conclusion that undermines the historical credibility of this specific biblical narrative. The reason that Jerusalem (or any other Judahite town or even village) does not appear on the Karnak inscription is surely that the southern highlands were irrelevant to Shishak's goals."

(Page 80.)

Toto

Biomystic: the part of the OP that you seem to have missed is "I want to bypass any discussion about the validity of the find and the conclusion, in other words we assume that yes, there was an HD."

In other words, this thread assumes a historical David, and your speculations are off topic.

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Biomystic

You made an assumption about me that wasn't true but yes, if you want to structure the debate to arrive at a predictable outcome within your bypass limitations, please go ahead and ignore my historical references to "dawidum", "chieftains", plural of dawid or david, chief.

Toto

Questions about whether David existed may be discussed in this thread, which has been split from here: Did the Historical David exist?