It is a bit amusing to observe people express solemn opinions on subjects in which they don't really have training.It
would appear that matters Egyptological are best left to
Egyptologists.
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For example, Peter Kirk has written, inter alia: "..... The orthodox estimate of the date of Shoshenk I is dependent on estimates by Thiele etc of the date of the Shishak invasion in 1 Kings. Kitchen et al have fitted other Egyptian rulers around this date for Shoshenk I but with a lot of uncertainties. And Thiele's dates are derived from the Bible and from Mesopotamian data, but not at all from Egyptian. ....
To reject commonly accepted Egyptian chronologty because it does
not fit with biblical chronology -- clearly typological -- based on
numbers
such as 480 or 40 years, is an expression of faith, not scholarship.
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