Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

“The vivid Old Testament saga of the 10 plagues that devastated the land of Egypt and its people (Exodus 1-12) has intrigued some to seek rational explanations for a chronicle of disasters that befell one population yet spared another. Indeed, biblical scholars in a 21st century translation of the Old Testament concede that from an historical standpoint, the first nine plagues resemble natural events well known in the Middle East, save for their patterns and rapid succession”. N Joel Ehrenkranz and Deborah A Sampson I (Damien Mackey) am not completely averse to the theory that God may have used natural phenomena, catastrophism, to effect the Plagues of Egypt and also some aspects of the Exodus. I have been struck by the incredible likeness of the series of phenomena accompanying the Mount St. Helens eruption and the biblical Plagues - almost identical in some cases, except as to the order in which they occurred. N. Joel Ehrenkranz and Deborah A. Sampson have written (fo...

by Damien F. Mackey A tentative theory, which may provide nothing more than just a nice symmetry. Introduction When it comes to the place where Noah built the Ark there appear to be no firm traditions to offer us any helpful clues. This I find surprising, considering the significance of the event. It may simply be that, down through the ages, it has been presumed that the great Flood was so total that it destroyed every single vestige of anything on the ground that had preceded it. A complete tabula rasa effect. And, whereas that was also my early opinion, it is not any more. For instance, the four rivers of Genesis 2:10-14, far from having been erased from the face of the earth, were still flowing as late as Sirach’s day (Sirach 24:25-27), conventionally estimated as being the C2nd BC (about two millennia after the Flood). Indeed, they still flow to this very day (16th May, 2025). More significantly, from the testimony of Jesus Christ we learn that the Jerusale...

by Damien F. Mackey However, neither Flavio nor his brother, Claudio, believes that professor Anati is correct in his linking of both Sinai and Horeb as one and the same sacred mountain. They came to believe that the real Mount Horeb was an un-named mountain (no. 788) in the middle of the Karkom valley. The Midianites amongst whom Moses would dwell for forty years (from age 40-80) were descendants of Abraham by his second wife, Keturah (Genesis 25:1-2). The atmosphere living amongst those presumably God-fearing Semites must have been totally different from that of Moses’s first forty years of life, living amongst those fearers of the gods in “the land of Ham” (e.g., Psalm 78:51) - the Hamitic Egyptians and the Ethiopian descendants of Cush, the oldest son of Ham (Genesis 10:6, 8). Locating Midian and Mount Sinai Where was this land of Midian with its Holy Mountain, Horeb, or Sinai, that will become a central point of focus during this time? Here I substantially - but ...

by Damien F. Mackey “During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. God heard their groaning and He remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them”. Exodus 2:23-25 Introduction “During that long period, the king of Egypt died”. The “king of Egypt” here, the legendary “Chenephres” (Eusebius from Artapanus), died late during Moses’s Midian phase, and, with him, the dynasty virtually ended. There would yet be a brief-reigning female Pharaoh. I suited the last male Pharaoh with his historical (dynastic) alter egos in my article: The King of Egypt of Exodus 2:23 https://www.academia.edu/124085893/The_King_of_Egypt_of_Exodus_2_23 wherein I concluded: Conclusion: The vindictive “King of Egypt” of Exodus 2:23 was, all at once, “Chenephres” (tradition) – Chephren (Khafre)...

by Damien F. Mackey Creationist Patrick Clarke, holding to the conventional route, will misidentify certain locations that Dr. Velikovsky had claimed were the newly fortified forts of Rehoboam. Following on from Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky’s biblically maximalising identification of “Shishak king of Egypt” (I Kings 14:25-26) with ancient Egypt’s “Napoleon” (professor Breasted), Thutmose III, of the Eighteenth Dynasty (in Ages in Chaos, I, 1952), I undertook the extremely challenging task of solving the geographical and topographical problems associated with that pharaoh’s First Campaign (Year 22/23), the one that Dr. Velikovsky had rightly identified as being the biblical campaign against Jerusalem in Year 5 of king Rehoboam of Judah. My reconstruction of this campaign can be read in articles such as: The Shishak Redemption (4) The Shishak Redemption | Damien Mackey - Academia.edu and: Yehem near Aruna - Thutmose III’s march on Jerusalem (3) Yehem near Aruna - Thutmose...

Flavio Barbiero tells on pp. 64 ff. of his thrilling article: THE CAVE OF TREASURES ON MOUNT HOREB (3) THE CAVE OF TREASURES ON MOUNT HOREB …. The mountain without a name Since our first arrival at Har Karkom, we have been struck by a small mountain that stands isolated in the middle of the valley. Arriving from the Egyptian border, it impressively resembles an Egyptian pyramid, with the horizontal stratifications of the rocks giving a realistic idea of the various orders of stones. …. Figure 27 – Seen from the south the mount appears like an Egyptian pyramid …. Seen from the north, the mountain had a particular shape, like a large crouching dragon, with a large stone slab at the top of its back, which resembled an enormous lectern. That little mountain was the most notable point in the whole valley and could be seen from any direction. It was the constant reference for knowing where one was. With its unmistakable silhouette constantly under the eyes, it was impossible...