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by Damien F. Mackey Recently, I have seen proposed for candidates of the biblical “Shishak”: Seti I; Ramses II; Ramses III; and Merenptah. Whatever happened to Thutmose III? The most recent effort that I have read is Fred Harding’s 2020 article (book): Shishak Mystery Solved (6) Shishak Mystery Solved Shishak Mystery Solved!: The Evidence is Beyond Doubt : Harding, Fred: Amazon.com.au: Books "In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, King Shishak of Egypt marched against Jerusalem." (1 Kings 14:25) Nearly all Egyptologists identify Shishak with Shoshenq I of the 22nd dynasty (943 BC -716 BC) and this is still the majority position. However, it is a position which is based on old-school chronology that stems way back to 1828 when Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) identified the person called Shishak in the Bible as the pharaoh known to history as Shoshenq I. As the two names sounde...