Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Kevin W. Woodruff" <cierpke AT prodigy.net>]

And there would be others who would insist that San
Francisco was destroyed in 1906 instead of 1908
because the ancient archives at Tel-el-New York have
that event dated to April 18, 1906 at 5:12 local time

Kevin 

--- david.kimbrough AT charter.net wrote:
> A different way to look at the issue is to consider
> that 
> the OT in four separate locations assoicates the
> Isrealites 
> with a region of Egypt called ?Rameses? which
> appears to be 
> located in the North-East corner of the delta (Gen
> 47:11, 
> Exd 12:37 Num 33:3, Num 33:5).  ?Rameses? is not 
> inconsistent with the city of ?Pi-Rameses?, near
> ?Pi-Thom?.  
> Although it is not certain when Pi-Ramesses was
> built, it 
> was probably not built before Ramesses I (who was
> born in 
> the north eastern delta and died in 1290 BC)
> although it 
> may have been built by Seti I.  If we take the OT at
> face 
> value and assume that ?Rameses? is the same as ?Pi-
> Ramesses?, then according to Gen 47:11 Joseph
> settled in 
> Rameses no earlier than the mid 1200?s BC.
> 
> Of course this may be an anachronism.  If it is
> assumed 
> that the author(s) of Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers
> were 
> writing many centuries after the fact, they may have
> used 
> the name of a region of Egypt that they and their
> readers 
> were familiar with, not knowing it was built after
> then 
> exodus.
> 
> All of this is assuming the actually was a battle of
> 
> Jericho.  If for the moment that it is assumed that
> City IV 
> was in fact destroyed by fire as Kenyon argued, that
> does 
> not mean that it was destroyed by the Isrealites or
> that 
> the fire was the result of warfare.  Both the cities
> of 
> Chicago and London were destroyed by fire that had
> nothing 
> to do with war.  In 1908 most of San Fransisco was 
> destroyed by fires caused by an earthquake.  If
> three 
> thousand years from now archeologists were to
> examine the 
> ruins of San Fransisco, they would find a layer of
> upended 
> foundations and carcoal.  They might conclude that
> San 
> Fransisco was destroyed by invading isrealites.
> 
> 
>  
> > From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
> > Date: 2004/05/23 Sun AM 07:26:35 GMT
> > To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Jericho(5)
> > 
> > No, Herm, if you want to argue a theory, you have
> to give 
> us all the
> > evidence.
> > 
> > > <<Given a choice, I'll go for an Assyrian
> Capivity ca. 
> 722 BC to reckon a
> > > <<chronolgy from.
> > >
> > > Ok, for the time being, I won't convey the
> scripture 
> that confirms this,
> > > however, the Northern Kingdom lasted for 260
> years.
> > 
> > Jeroboam - 22 years (1 Kings 14:20). Nadab - 2
> (15:25). 
> Baasha 24 (14:33).
> > Elah 2 (16:8). Zimri and Tibni in one year,
> together with 
> Omri (16:15-22).
> > Omri - 12 (16:23). Ahab 22 (16:29). Ahaziah 2
> (22:52). 
> Joram 12 (2 Kings
> > 3:1). Jehu - 28 (10:36). Jehoahaz 17 (13:1).
> Jehoash 16 
> (13:10). Jeroboam II
> > 41 (14:23). Zechariah and Shallum 1 (15:8,13).
> Menahem 10 
> (15:17). Pekahiah
> > 2 (15:23). Pekah 20 (15:27). Hoshea 9 (17:1).
> > Unless I missed one, that's 243 years. And that's
> without 
> taking into
> > account the possibility of one king's last year
> also 
> being counted as the
> > next kings first (which would mean up to 16 years
> less), 
> and the possibility
> > of a son ruling as regent during his father's
> lifetime, 
> and those years
> > being counted for both kings (there are many
> examples of 
> this in the ANE).
> > While many scholars have tried to calculate and
> correlate 
> the reigns of the
> > kings of both Israel and Judah with the little
> extra-
> biblical evidence there
> > is, I think that Thiele has done the best job.
> > 
> > > After going
> > > back 260 years, that brings us to 982 BC, for
> the year 
> that Solomon
> > > dies, and the division of the united kingdom.
> > 
> > Assuming that the Shishak = Sheshonq I equation is
> 
> correct, we still have to
> > give c.930 as the death of Solomon.
> > >
> > > Next, we have 120 years for the combined reigns
> of 
> Solomon, David,
> > > and Saul.  Therefore, Saul began the monarchy in
> 1102 
> BC.
> > 
> > The 40  years each for David and Solomon are
> suspicious, 
> but let's use them
> > for lack of anything better. But 1 Sam. 13:1 says,
> "Saul 
> was a year old when
> > he reigned, and he reigned over Israel two years".
> This 
> is obviously
> > corrupt, but ALL the various reconstructions are
> just 
> that. We just don't
> > know how long Saul ruled.
> > 
> > But now,
> > > we need an accurate defined length of time for
> the 
> period of the Judges.
> > > In Acts chapter 13, Paul gives a historical
> narrative 
> of the nation of
> > > Israel.  He cites that there was a total of 450
> years 
> for the Judges,
> > which
> > > yields the year 1552 BC for the end of the
> conquest.
> > 
> > The chronology of Judges is extremely problematic.
> First 
> of all, so many of
> > their dates are typological multiples of 40.
> Second, how 
> can you know that
> > some of them did not act at the same time (say, a
> Shamgar 
> in Zebulun at the
> > same time as Jair in Gilead and Samson in Dan)?
> > 
> > The numbers that "Luke" puts in Paul's speach in
> Acts 13 
> are an attempt to
> > make sense of the numbers (based on the LXX).
> > 
> > > Add 6 years (5.5)
> > > for the conquest, we now have 1558 BC for the
> fall of 
> Jericho.
> > 
> > 5.5 what?
> > >
> > > Now.  Why is 1st Kings 6:1 in error (or
> miscopied)?  If 
> you withdraw
> > > 480 years from 1018 BC, the fourth year of
> Solomon, you 
> have
> > > 1498 BC as being the year of the Exodus.  But
> that is 
> not correct.  It
> > > is 100 years off.  Go backward 40 years from
> 1558 BC, 
> 
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