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Ebla tablets attest accuracy of Bible

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  “Perhaps one of the most significant discoveries within the Ebla archives is the presence of a creation account that bears a striking resemblance to the biblical account of creation. According to reports, the Ebla Tablets contain the oldest known creation account outside the Bible, predating the Babylonian creation myth by some 600 years”. Edward D. Andrews     Sadly, the Syrian government, in its desperate attempt to portray the site of Ebla (modern Tell Mardikh) to the scholarly world as a purely Syrian entity, has thereby divested it of anything that pertains to the biblical world of the Hebrews (Israelites):   Bible-affirming Ebla hampered and censored by Syrian authorities   (6) Bible-affirming Ebla hampered and censored by Syrian authorities   Scandal of Ebla   (6) Scandal of Ebla Edward D. Andrews here (2024) gives us a totally different picture – the correct one! What Can the Ebla Tablets Teach Us About...

Psibkhenno may serve to anchor Ramses II in a biblico-historical era

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    by Damien F. Mackey     Pharaoh Psibkhenno needs an alter ego, because much of his building work is thought no longer to exist. This is typical of Egypt’s so-called Twenty-First Dynasty , which is quite archaeologically deficient. Nicolas Grimal has written, re “The historical interpretation of Tanis”, for instance ( A History of Ancient Egypt, Blackwell, 1994, p. 317): “Nothing remains of the actual buildings of Psusennes I …”.   And again (p. 315): “At Tanis, Psusennes I built a new enclosure around the temple dedicated to the triad of Amun, Mut and Khonsu. If the few traces of reuse of earlier monuments are to be believed, he made many other contributions to the temple, but because of the current conditions of the site little is known concerning this work”.   Psibkhenno was apparently the father-in-law of Shoshenq I (N. Grimal, p. 319). Smendes II, who I suspect must be Smendes=Shoshenq I, “sent a pair of bracelets to Psusen...

Advantages if Hezekiah’s son Manasseh is identified with Josiah’s son Jehoiakim

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  by Damien F. Mackey   It explains the complete absence of the name “Jehoiakim” in Matthew 1’s Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah. “Manasseh”, on the other hand, appears there in 1:10.     These are my most recent articles in favour of what I now consider to be a:   Necessary fusion of Hezekiah and Josiah   (7) Necessary fusion of Hezekiah and Josiah   Striking a match for Shebna (Sobna) in Hezekiah-Josiah parallel universe   (7) Striking a match for Shebna (Sobna) in Hezekiah-Josiah parallel universe   One important corollary of this parallelism is that Hezekiah’s idolatrous son, Manasseh, now becomes Josiah’s idolatrous son, Jehoiakim:   Manasseh – Jehoiakim   (8) Manasseh - Jehoiakim   The following two texts, I submit, are describing the very same incident.   Manasseh 2 Chronicles 33:11: “ Yahweh then brought down on them the generals of the king of Assyria's army who ...