Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

    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...

  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 ...