Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

         Insights of William Foxwell Albright   Part Two (i): Albright insisted that Balaam was an ‘Edomite sage’     by   Damien F. Mackey       “Balaam was an ancient Edomite sage” .   W. F. Albright       Interestingly, though, Albright does not proceed on in this article (“T he Home of Balaam”, Jstor, 1915) to connect “Balaam son of Beor” (Numbers 22:5) - as do some commentators - with “ Bela son of Beor”, who “became king of Edom” (Genesis 36:31). James B. Jordan is one who has proposed such a connection, whilst in the same article including the prophet job amongst the list of Edomite kings (“Was Job an Edomite King? (Part 2)”, 2000). Job very much was not! According to my version of the prophet:   Job's Life and Times   https://www.academia.edu/3787850/Jobs_Life_and_Times   Job was Israelite, not Edomite, and Job would have lived almost a millennium after Balaam and the Edomite king, Jobab, with whom Jordan hopes

       Part One: Long cultural tradition of sky watching           “The earliest known depiction of the constellation Orion , according to Rappenglueck was carved on a piece of mammoth tusk”.           The following needs to be read according to a revised context (necessitating far lower BC dates) for Aurignacian Paleolithic as according to the sort of model pioneered by Dr. John Osgood, at: https://creation.com/a-better-model-for-the-stone-age   A Better Model for the Stone Age     Paleo-Astronomy April 29, 2015August 4, 2015 ~ davidgnez ~ 1 Comment   In the previous post we discussed the “cultural explosion” of the Upper Paleolithic which brought the beginnings of art, religion, and magic, as well as technological advances. Along with these innovations came the earliest forms of observational astronomy , the calendar and astro-ceremonialism– mythology, religious beliefs and rituals associated with the heaven