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Beyond Thiele: the historical implications of a revised chronology of Israel

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dc.contributor.advisor Le Roux, Magdel
dc.contributor.author Derstine, Philip
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-07T10:51:36Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-07T10:51:36Z
dc.date.issued 2020-06
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26936
dc.description.abstract This thesis is broadly focused on all aspects of biblical chronology related to the period of the Divided Kingdom, and by extension, to Israel’s entrance into Canaan. It integrates evidence from multifarious disciplines to support authoritative timelines for Israel and Egypt from the early New Kingdom to Dynasty 22. In addition, the study demonstrates the harmony of Egyptian and biblical astrocalendrical data with at least four non-Assyrian timelines, all pointing to dates for the Exodus and entry into Canaan that are around 44 years higher than any chronological models currently under consideration. Thiele’s methodological and historical shortcomings have not been generally understood but are well-documented here. The synchronistic and regnal length data of 1-2 Kings are reevaluated here in terms of arithmetic harmony and external evidence. The use of the Bible’s higher timeline instead of the one assumed for Assyrian canons allows comparison of historical (im)probabilities in four key windows of time: (a) the fifteenth century BC, wherein evidence from archaeology suggests an invasion of Canaan by a highly motivated, aniconic, seminomadic entity at a time when there is nearly universal evidence of a systematic program of ḥērem throughout Canaan, (b) the latter half of the eleventh century BC, when evidence for state formation at Khirbet Qeiyafa, the Arabah Valley, and throughout the Negev is coeval with the floruit of the kingship of David indicated by biblical regnal data, (c) the late ninth century BC and first quarter of the eighth, when the floruit of Jeroboam II’s empire appears to coincide with periods of recession experienced by both Syria and Assyria, and (d) the 730s, where the sequence of events suggests that the biblical timeline may be correct in placing Israel’s demise at the hands of Tiglath-pileser III earlier than 733/732 BC. Since the 44-year higher timeline for Israel produces synchrony between the biblical text, archaeological evidence, and the histories of surrounding nations, it is proposed as new working model.
dc.language.iso en en
dc.subject Ancient Israel
dc.subject Arabah Valley
dc.subject astrocalendrical dating
dc.subject Assyrian Eponym Canon
dc.subject Assyrian King List
dc.subject Biblical archaeology
dc.subject Biblical chronology
dc.subject Canaan
dc.subject Conquest
dc.subject Dynasty 18
dc.subject Emergence of Israel
dc.subject Eponym Chronicle
dc.subject Hapiru, ḥērem
dc.subject Hebrew calendar
dc.subject Hurrians, Hyksos
dc.subject Iron Age
dc.subject Joshua,
dc.subject Jubilee
dc.subject Late Bronze Age
dc.subject lunar dates
dc.subject Mittani
dc.subject
dc.subject monumental architecture
dc.subject Moses
dc.subject Radiocarbon dating
dc.subject Sabbatical cycle
dc.subject Shemitot
dc.subject Shasu
dc.subject Shishak
dc.subject state formation
dc.subject Third Intermediate Period
dc.subject topographical lists
dc.subject United Monarchy
dc.title Beyond Thiele: the historical implications of a revised chronology of Israel en
dc.type Thesis en
dc.description.department Biblical and Ancient Studies en


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