Tag Archives: 2 Chronicles

Victorian Secrets: How Conservative Christians Messed Up Ancient Chronology

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Darrell Pursiful

Yesterday I subjected a classroom full of unsuspecting guinea pigs to a thought experiment I’ll continue to play out over the next several weeks. In a nutshell, my thesis is that several key touchstones in our understanding of the chronology … Continue reading →

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All the King's Horses: Conclusion?

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Darrell Pursiful

Having examined the evidence—what little there is—for military tactics in the Old Testament and comparing it to Robert Drews’ thesis in The End of the Bronze Age (Princeton University Press, 1995) that the shift from the Late Bronze Age to … Continue reading →

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All the King’s Horses: What an Iron Age Military Expedition Might Look Like

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Darrell Pursiful

Now that we have gotten a glimpse of how the biblical writers might have described Late Bronze Age chariot warfare, we must see how an Iron Age confrontation is depicted. Once again, I’m relying on Robert Drews’ The End of … Continue reading →

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