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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 ...
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Striking a match for Shebna (Sobna) in Hezekiah-Josiah parallel universe

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  by   Damien F. Mackey     If, as I believe, Hezekiah and Josiah were one and the same king, of the same era, with whom in Josiah’s realm are we to match Shebna the scribe of Hezekiah?     A colleague of mine, a smoker, used to make the comment, whenever I (a non-smoker) would ask him for a match:   ‘If I had a match for you, I could start a circus!’   So far I have managed to strike a match for a sequence of famous names from the Hezekiah-Josiah narratives. My task has been greatly facilitated by the excellent Chart 37 from the Domain of Man site: Chart 37: Comparison of Hezekiah and Josiah Narratives   See e.g. my article:   Necessary fusion of Hezekiah and Josiah   (8) Necessary fusion of Hezekiah and Josiah   Chart 37, however, does list several connections with which I may not agree, and it also lacks a few that I would consider to be essential ones. For example, it has failed to st...
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