Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Andrew Davies" <a.davies AT sheffield.ac.uk>]

NPL said [PS: Would love to see Kitchen handling his [Rohl's] theory. Did
Kitchen ever make a review of it?],

Kitchen is handled thoroughly in Rohl's books and was interviewed for the TV
programme shown in the UK a couple of years back about it.  He doesn't
accept Rohl on the basis that his thesis moves history 'forward then back
than forward again' (quote from TV programme) but does deal seriously with
it, concluding, 'nice attempt, but it just won't wash ... we will have to
part company'.  I believe he has also published more formal scholarly
rebuttals but I have not read these.

The significant point, perhaps, is that Kitchen, the leading authority on
the Egyptian 3 I.P., thought Rohl was worth engaging in dialogue with, even
though he disagrees firmly with his conclusions.  This perhaps makes the
contemptuous tone that we non specialist Egyptologists on this list have
been adopting surprising ...

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Dr Andrew Davies
Mattersey Hall Bible College
England, UK
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