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[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

But it's not just the Shishak Shoshenq link that makes the chronology fit.
The fact that the Amarna letters found at Akhenaten's new capital Akhetaten
are written in Akkadian speaks volumes. To date Akhenaten's reign we merely
need to look at when Akkadian was used as a lingua franca and we already
have a rough dating independent of Manetho and archeologically verifiable.
Akkadian was used as the lingua franca in the late Near Eastern bronze age.
i.e. pre 1200 BCE. The general dating of Akhenaten to 1300's seems to agree
with this phenomenon. I find it extremely difficult to envisage how we could
date Akhenaten to as late as 8th/9th centuries and still expect the find of
Akkadian letters to be explicable.

James Christian

2010/2/18 K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>

> James:
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:21 AM, James Christian
> <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >> The Egyptian dating is messed up, as even people who do not believe the
> >> Bible but look at archeology claim. So the question then becomes, when
> >> were
> >> they written? Around 1400 BC is off the table, not believable. I don’t
> >> know
> >> the answer yet.
> >>
> >>
> > Sure. The only thing we can say for sure (assuming no forgery conspiracy
> > theories) is that they were written in the time of the 18th dynasty to
> > Pharaohs like Amenhotep. What time exactly he was around we can't say for
> > sure but if Shishak is Shoshenq then we have a list of pretty much
> confirmed
> > Pharaohs who all must have ruled for at least some time so we do have
> some
> > kind of framework we can build on.
> >
> > James Christian
> >
>
> We don’t even know that Shoshenq = Shishaq, or was it Shoshenq = King So
> סוא
> mentioned in 2 Kings  17:4? Was Shishaq the same as Raamses II or Thutmosis
> II? With the problem that the Egyptian kings had numerous names, not
> counting nicknames and often poor transliterations into other languages, we
> don’t know the answers to these questions.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
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