Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Interesting. I'm going to have to dig a bit deeper. Can anybody around here
offer a decent refutation of the claim that our framework of Assyriology is
dependent upon Manetho's chronology?

James Christian

2010/2/19 K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>

> James:
>
> You wrote: Are you suggesting that our entire framework of Assyriology
> dating also depends on Manetho's testimony?
>
> Yes. That is what I have been repeatedly told by different sources. Rohl,
> James, Velikovsky, etc. also report that when shorter dating is given to
> the
> Egyptian records, then the histories of all the other countries around
> Egypt—Greece, Anatolia, Libya, etc.—also get cleaned up automatically, and
> an inexplicable “dark age” disappears (inexplicable because it shows up in
> cross referencing the histories to the Egyptian history, but doesn’t show
> up
> in the archeological record).
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:55 AM, James Christian <
> jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > My understanding of Akkadian is that we have a fairly good model of the
> > stages of its development representing various stages in its development
> and
> > that it is the Middle-Assyrian stage of development that we see in the
> > Amarna letters. Surely, therefore it is the archaeological and historical
> > model of Assyriology that gives us that dating of its usage. At least I
> > would expect it to be. I'm going to have to look into this a bit further.
> > Are you suggesting that our entire framework of Assyriology dating also
> > depends on Manetho's testimony? If that be the case then I would be
> forced
> > to admit that that would present compelling problems to our whole
> historical
> > framework.
> >
> > James Christian
> >
> > 2010/2/19 K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
> >
> >> James:
> >>
> >> You just made a circular argument.
> >>
> >> The reason for the dates of the Akkadian language use is based on
> Manetho,
> >> and now you say that the reason we can trust the Manetho dates is based
> on
> >> the dates for the use of Akkadian.
> >>
> >>
> >> Karl W. Randolph.
> >>
> >>
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