Adding Adad-Nirari to Shalmaneser as Assyrian kings needing to be re-shuffled
by Damien F. Mackey Adad-Nirari III, as in the case of Shalmaneser III, seemed to be fixed to various firm anchors, one of them – as with Shalmaneser III and Jehu – a Jehu-ide king of Israel. Introduction The conventional positioning of the mighty Assyrian king Shalmaneser (so-called) III ranks probably amongst the several most vexing difficulties for a Velikovskian-based revision of ancient history, featuring alongside where to place Ramses II ? and how to explain, or to fit in, the highly complex Third Intermediate Period (TIP) ? These loomed as three virtually insurmountable problems, amongst other lesser ones; though one might expect that the enormous 66-67 year reign of pharaoh Ramses II would serve to carve out a rather conspicuous niche in the revision. With Shalmaneser III dated to c. 859-824 BC, then Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky’s hopeful revision of the El Amarna (EA) period, with the C14t...