Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 22/09/2005 21:30, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> ...
> We have an absurd situation whereby Biblical scholars date Solomon to the late
> 10th century based on Shoshenq's campaign and Egyptologists date Shoshenq
> based on Solomon's date. ...

Thank you for this. Well, the situation only becomes absurd when the 
biblical scholars reject the data on which this agreed date depends but 
don't reject the date. They may try to fool themselves that they are 
using an Egyptological date, but in fact they are using one derived from 
the biblical data, a framework into which the small amount of 
Egyptological data has been speculatively fitted together to fit. If the 
framework is sound, the speculative fit may be correct. If the framework 
is removed, the speculative fit collapses completely and we are left 
with almost nothing to go on for the dating of Shoshenq.

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Peter Kirk
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