Studies

Chronological Revision

• All the King’s Horses: Chariotry as a Test Case for Chronological Revisionism. Locating the end of the Bronze Age in the biblical narrative.
• Victorian Secrets: How Conservative Christians Messed Up Ancient Chronology
• Ancient Chronology: The Goldberg Variations. Summary of Jeremy Goldberg’s chronological revision with respect to the divided monarchy.

Genesis

• Can the Sumerians Help Date the Genesis Flood? Sumerian legends place the Flood in the Terminal Ubaid period.
• Abraham’s Era. Where should Abraham be located, archeologically?
• Patriarchal Chronology, Longevity, and Numeracy. What do we do with the extreme life spans of the Genesis patriarchs?

The United Monarchy

• How Long Did Saul Reign? About twelve years.
• Where’d He Get That Idea? An Egyptian basis for David’s phallic trophies.

Shoshenq

• The Shoshenq Redemption . Summary of Pierce Furlong’s 2007 doctoral dissertation as it relates to the early divided monarchy.
• Was Shoshenq I Late for His Own War? Shoshenq I can be carbon-dated to the ninth century BC, not the tenth.
• Shoshenq, Again. More archeological evidence that Shoshenq I belongs in the ninth century BC.

Miscellaneous

• Herakles, Genealogies, and Biblical Chronology. Ancient Greek genealogies and biblical chronology.
• A Revised Tentative Philistine Timeline