Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

    “If ‘Tudor’ is misleading about the royal family, the common designation ‘Tudor subjects’, ‘Tudor men and women’ having ‘Tudor attitudes’, is even more so. There is no evidence that people thought of themselves as such”. Clifford S. L. Davies     Dr Cliff Davies (d. 2016), a former history tutor at Oxford’s Wadham College, wrote:   The Tudors; Name and Implications May I augment and correct the summary of my article ‘A rose by any other name’ ( Times Literary Supplement , 13 June 2008, pp. 14-15) which appeared in The Ricardian , volume 19 (2009), page 173. The summary misrepresents the main point. My argument is now repeated as part of my ‘Reputation, repute, reality’, a review article in English Historical Review volume 124 (2009) pages 1432-1447.1 Far from arguing that the name ‘Tudor’ was wrongly attached to Henry VII, I do not dispute that his surname, had he used one, would have been ‘Tudor’. (The point that it could as easily have be...

    by Damien F. Mackey   “ On the basis of my research, I would suggest that they were a people who migrated slowly, from the south or southwest, into the Central Negev of Palestine ”. Dr. Rudolph Cohen   What Dr. Rudolph Cohen wrote here, in his article: Home  >  Magazines  >  BAR  >  July/August 1983   The Mysterious MBI People Does the Exodus tradition in the Bible preserve the memory of their entry into Canaan?   is an improvement, both geographically and archaeologically, on the views of the American rabbi-archaeologist, Nelson Glueck - who had believed that the nomadic Middle Bronze I (MBI) people belonged to the age of the patriarch Abraham - and of those who have identified them as the family of Abraham. Their progression into the Negev from the S or SW is geographically opposite to that of the Abraham-ites, who had entered the land of Canaan from the north, coming from Haran (fro...

    by   Damien F. Mackey     “In an unprecedented discovery, an ancient text found at Deir Alla, Jordan, in 1967 tells about the activities of a prophet named Balaam . Could this be the Balaam of the Old Testament? The text makes it clear that it is. Three times in the first four lines he is referred to as “ Balaam son of Beor ,” exactly as in the Bible ” .   Dr Bryant Wood     Those, like Dr. Eduard Meyer, who claim that Moses never existed or wrote anything, or like the modern Israeli archaeologists for whom the Joshuan Conquest was based on some dim, distant historical memory:   Serious archaeological mis-dating is why the Middle Bronze I nomads seem so mysterious   (22) Serious archaeological mis-dating is why the Middle Bronze I nomads seem so mysterious   have been completely wrong-footed by documentary archaeological evidence for the real existence of the venal prophet Balaam, the contemporary...