Peter Kirk wrote:
If the dates proposed by Kitchen and others for Sheshonq are off by a fewThiele 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.
decades, this would force Thiele, Tadmor, Galil etc. to
While I can but nick approvingly over your last sentence, I must however
criticise a little Thiele´s methodical approach, which is false, and thus
shutter your belief in his results.
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He failed to observe that coregencies are stated plain in the biblical text and occur always in the cases where a repetition of the regnal formula occurs (once at beginning of the text dealing with the reign of the king - once at closing the story of the king). All these cases without exception can be identified both from the circumstances invoked in the text as well on synchronistic reasons as situations as a coregency occured. It is therefore very important to avoid any suplementary unwarranted assumptions of coregencies.
In fact it can be shown, that the contradicting synchronistic statements in
the biblical material concerning the later monarchy, stem exactly from an
attempt of the biblical redactor to adjust his data with the Assyrian data.
He had statements concerning certain contacts between Israel/Juda and
Assyria, but was not able to arrive to a synchronism, because his data and
the assyrian data diverged already by 18 years (a moon period). So he created
a second set of synchronisms between Israel and Juda, bringing both
chronologies down by 18 years and thus reestablishing synchronisms with
Assyria.
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A further great problem is for Thiele to recognise the cases, when reigns are
counted involving the first regnal year or, instead, involving just the years
of independent reign (thus ignoring the first regnal year still shared with
one´s predecessor). Instead he launches an undemonstrated theory concerning
different New Year dates in Israel and Juda, ...
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The purpose of chronology is to avoid as much as possible the mix of data:
that is mixing data of different sources - assyrian, egyptian, hebrew, etc.
The ideal is to obtain at first independent chronologies, which can later be
adjusted. We are able on such a basis to recognise in each case which of the
sources is faked, thus contributing to a missalignment.
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