Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

  by Damien F. Mackey     Dr. Norman Geisler: “Patterns are really more important than dates because dates kind of fluctuate and the argument about dates is still going”.   Patterns of Evidence. Exodus. (Advertising flyer)   This is one of the most sensible statements that I have read regarding the methodology required for attaining a proper biblico-historical revision. Those would-be historians obsessed with dates, numbers, and charts, could take heed.     One might expect that major biblical events, such as the Exodus and the Fall of Jericho, and more especially the great Noachic Flood, would have had such a notable impact on their environs as to have left some substantial evidential imprints, thereby enabling for a better co-ordination of stratigraphical and or/geological data. Even a conventional scholar such as professor Emmanuel Anati had appreciated – what I also firmly hold – that the Joshuan Conquest must have occurred during the Early Bronze III [

“One of the biggest mysteries of the ancient world is the question of whether the historical events recorded in the Bible actually happened. The stakes of this question are extremely high because today’s world is so connected to the Bible. In fact, the Bible may have been the greatest single influence to shape Western civilization. For more than 1500 years, the West accepted the truth of the biblical accounts. Presently, these accounts form the foundations of faith for hundreds of millions of Christians and Jews worldwide. If these events never happened, are those religions based on a gigantic lie?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AU828nVDUhY

From: http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/david-rohl-debuts-release-of-exodus-myth-or-history/ .... After more than 30 years of archaeological research (in conjunction with his team of like-minded investigators), Rohl has compiled his evidence into an in-depth written account revealing that archaeologists and historians have been looking in all the right places for signs of the Exodus, but in entirely the wrong time. “EXODUS-Myth or History?” uncovers the clear fact that the Exodus never happened in the reign of Ramesses the Great, as most scholars and all the Hollywood movies have insisted .... AMAIC Comment : David Rohl is entirely correct insofar as the Exodus did not occur during the reign of Ramses II 'the Great'. Far from it! 

by   Damien F. Mackey           Some by now well established biblico-archaeological parameters serve to fix, with some degree of precision, the era of the patriarch Joseph, son of Jacob.           Introduction   Joseph, that much loved Hebrew of Genesis who saved Egypt from its seven years of famine, is known from the Genesis narratives to have existed after Abraham, but before Moses. In very round figures, the famine that Joseph had predicted would have occurred about 200 years after Abram (later Abraham) encountered the coalition of four kings led by Chedorlaomer, as narrated in Genesis 14. The same famine of Egypt occurred, in turn, approximately 200 years before the Exodus in the time of Moses.     This roughly estimated biblical span of 400 years accords quite well with Dr. John Osgood’s estimation of it (after adding another 40 years down to the