So as you may know David 8’s character shares many traits of the biblical David as well.

He came to fame as a musical composer before defeating the giant Goliath, he was 1 of eight sons and he was destined to take over King Saul’s reign.

Historians of the Ancient Near East agree that David probably existed around 1000 BCE, but that there is little that can be said about him as a historical figure.

There is no direct evidence outside of the Bible concerning David, but the Tel Dan Stele, an inscribed stone erected by a king of Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate his victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase ביתדוד‎

Below a picture of the graphic which is based off the inscription in The Art of Alien: Covenant Book as a blue design on the top left corner

bytdwd, which most scholars translate as “House of David”.