...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.
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.
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