178. Beth-Shan-Scythopolis was the city where Seti met the vanguard of the Scythians. He occupied the city, as he reported on his stela found there.
- Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History
Immanuel Velikovsky | 1945
(Section X, theses 178-181, 193)
179. Seti built a fortress on the Oronteg, at Tell Nebi Mend; it is Riblah of the Scriptures.
180. Seti participated in the war in the valley of the Euphrates on the side of Assurbanipal and against Nabopolassar. The Egyptian army referred to by Nabopolassar in his annals was that of Seti.
181. Greek soldiers sent by Gyges of Sardis to Egypt in the days of Seti became the first Greek settlers there.
193. The presence of the Scythians (Umman-Manda) in Asia Minor, who in the days of Essarhaddon arrived from behind the Caucasus, is also reflected in the Boghazkoi texts dealing with the Umman-Manda.
This city in the valley of the Jordan played a notable part in all the periods of Palestinian history. During the time of the Judges it was an unsubdued Canaanite city defended by chariots of iron. When Saul fell in the war with the Philistines his body was carried to Beth-Shan and hung on the city wall. The city was an administrative center in the days of Solomon. Scythians occupied it in the days of Manasseh (Menashe) or Josiah...
The real meaning of the strata archaeology of Beth-Shan is as follows: Strata IX to V (Thutmose III to Ramses II) cover the period of the kings from Solomon to Zedekiah and the exile. Stratum IV covers only the end of the Neo-Babylonian period (Nabonidus) and the old Persian, which is contemporaneous with the Later Ramessides. Strata III, II, and I are correctly presented as Hellenistic-Roman, Byzantine, and Arabian.
I would be careful using Velikovsky. I'm not sure about the details you quoted, but he sometimes has ideas that are generally dismissed by other scholars. Someone told me that he claimed that a comet turned into the planet Venus (but I haven't seen that text).