Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 20/09/2005 11:11, Yigal Levin wrote:

> ...
>
> If the dates proposed by Kitchen and others for Sheshonq are off by a few
> decades, this would force Thiele, Tadmor, Galil etc. to reconfigure their
> dates for the earlier kings of Israel and Judah, but there's not a lot of
> leeway. The campaigns of Tiglath-pileser III, Shalmaneser V and Sargon II,
> not to mention Sennachrib, are all dated independently, so that their
> correlations to biblical chronology are firm.
>
>  
Thiele etc cannot adjust their dates because they have a full set of 
data. By comparison the dates the Egyptologists have are based on very 
scanty data. I predict that they will find new data which will force 
them to adjust some of the details of their reconstruction - but they 
will manage to make compensatory adjustments to get back to the Thiele 
etc date for Shishak.

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