Egyptian amulet bearing the name of the Egyptian ruler, Thutmose III. – Credit: Zachi Dvira
Posted on 04/21/2016 1:29:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Egyptian amulet bearing the name of the Egyptian ruler, Thutmose III. – Credit: Zachi Dvira
... In the chapter dealing with the sack of the Temple of Jerusalem, it was demonstrated that the biblical Shishak, its plunderer, was Thutmose III of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and the objects of his loot, depicted on the bas relief at Karnak, were identified as the vessels, utensils, and furniture of the Temple. His heir Amenhotep II was identified as the Biblical Zerah who invaded Palestine in the days of King Asa at the beginning of the ninth century. Thus they could not have been the Libyan kings Shoshenk and Osorkon. These Libyans reigned later, and the entire duration of that dynasty was shorter than is conventionally assumed. But we shall also show that Osorkon could not have reigned in the beginning of the ninth century and that Shoshenk could not have been the biblical Shishak because he was the Biblical Pharaoh So referred to in the Scriptures during the closing days of Samaria, in the time of King Hezekiah.
There has been extensive trade for thousands of years. Even in the Americas you can find obsidian arrowheads thousands of miles away from the volcanoes that formed the original material. Old world ports would have teemed with people unloading and loading ships. Caravans took the trade goods deep into continents. They have found Chinese coins in Swedish burial mounds.
Thanks for the info, though it seems the mainstream academics reject the work of Velikovsky to whom you refer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky#Criticism
Yeah, it seems like that. :')
Dr V's work has held up, his critics (bashers, ignorant ad hominem attackers for the most part) have not held up so well. In "The Sequence of Dynasties" as well as in one of his books published in his lifetime (just shy of 40 years ago), and rooted in the "Theses" from 1945, he states that the 19th dynasty is over 700 years younger than the conventional pseudochronology claims; Ramses II's guts, from his canopic jars, were RC dated just a few years ago, and not surprisingly, were over 700 years younger than they're "supposed to be." The critics are just plain flat out dead stone cold wrong.
“bashers, ignorant ad hominem attackers”
So, he had been posting on FR:)
Egyptologist David Rohl also doesn’t equate Shishaq with Shoshenq I in his chronology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_%28Rohl%29#Shishaq
:') I'd guess that he'd have loved the internet, and would have spent 20 hours a day online, explaining, researching, battling.
Thanks LouieFisk. OTOH, Rohl is correct when he agrees with Velikovsky. :’)
Yer welcome. When it comes to ancient Egyptian chronologies I figure it’s anybody’s crapshoot at getting it right.Who knows?
Overall, I think there are quite a few (or used to be, FR's got a deep past now, compared with most other websites) David Rohl readers and topics around here. Rohl got started on chronology revision during the short-lived and abortive attempt called the Glasgow Chronology, which was intended to rival and/or replace Dr V's "Ages In Chaos". Peter James et al ("Centuries of Darkness") also arose from the GC. Vern Crisler is another chrono researcher, and Emmet Sweeney has at least a couple of books out. Circa 1960, the late Donovan Courville wrote and self-published his "The Exodus Problem and Its Ramifications". In all of that, none have the breadth of scholarship and comprehensiveness (not to mention consistency with more recent digs and dating) seen in Velikovsky's work.
“In all of that, none have the breadth of scholarship and comprehensiveness (not to mention consistency with more recent digs and dating) seen in Velikovsky’s work.”
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Velikovsky, being dead, is at a disadvantage to keep up with finds/research and thus is unable to make any needed adjustments.
I like what he has written, tho, and think there is much to be gleaned from it. Never can have too much input.
The conventional pseudochronology as it stood in his lifetime has been slowly moving toward his reconstruction -- the last few barriers will, of course, be strongly defended. Cosmic ray exposure dating of the Abu Simbel temple images of Ramses II would be nice.
Are you familiar with the British poet/socialist/self studied Egyptologist Gerald Massey?
Just came across his name and it appears that much of today’s woke feminist / anti patriarchy / Wiccan / black power stuff was popular here in the US in the 1930s.
Are you familiar with the British poet/socialist/self studied Egyptologist Gerald Massey?
Just came across his name and it appears that much of today’s woke feminist / anti patriarchy / Wiccan / black power stuff was popular here in the US in the 1930s.
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