Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

  by   Damien F. Mackey       This article was prompted by the request of a former professor of the École du Louvre in Paris:   “ Please, let us know about Your work on El-AMARNA …”.         Chronologically speaking, EA was newly explained in the 1950’s-1960’s when the Russian Jew, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, proposed, in his Ages in Chaos series, that the era of EA properly belonged to, not the C14th BC (as had generally been thought), but to about half a millennium later, to the time of the Divided Monarchy in Israel and its known international connections.   Dr. Velikovsky was able to arrive at various most compelling connections between EA, revised, and the approximate era of king Ahab of Israel and king Jehoshaphat of Judah (c. 850 BC, conventional dating), one of his most celebrated identifications being between two successive kings of Amurru in EA, Abdi-ashirta and Aziru , and two successive biblical kings of Syria, respectively, Ben-hadad

  by   Damien F. Mackey           Albright … published a more satisfactory translation than had hitherto been possible by discerning that its author had used a good many so-called ‘Canaanite’ words plus two Hebrew proverbs! EA 252 has a stylised introduction … and in the first 15 lines utilises only two ‘Canaanite’ words. Thereafter, in the main body of the text, Albright noted (and later scholars have concurred) that Lab’ayu used only about 20% pure Akkadian, “with 40% mixed or ambiguous, and no less than 40% pure Canaanite”.             “W.F. Albright , in full William Foxwell Albright , (born May 24, 1891, Coquimbo , Chile—died Sept. 19, 1971, Baltimore , Md., U.S.), American biblical archaeologist and Middle Eastern scholar, noted especially for his excavations of biblical sites”. https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-F-Albright   I find that professor Albright - although a scholar working within the restricting confines of the conv