Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

     by   Damien F. Mackey     Strangely, then, we are finding that the ancient city of Nineveh, destroyed in the late C7th BC, and not uncovered again until the mid-C19th AD – a period of approximately two and a half millennia, according to conventional estimates – experienced an eerie phase of ‘resurgence’ in the C7th AD, roughly halfway between these two cut-off points. This is clearly a pseudo-history.       The neo-Assyrian empire of the Sargonids, of the C8th-C7th’s BC - coupled with the contemporaneous drama of the Book of Judith - appears to have left its mark in various unexpected places. For instance, as we have discovered in this series, the supposed C7th AD emperor of Byzantium, Heraclius, and his contemporaries, are horribly anachronistic, notably in relation to the Assyrians and Nineveh:   Strangely, then, we are finding that the ancient city of Nineveh, destroyed in the late C7th BC, and...

  by   Damien F. Mackey       “Harness the horses to the chariot, you residents of Lachish. This was the beginning of sin for Daughter Zion, because Israel's acts of rebellion can be traced to you”.   Micah 1:13       Azuri - Hezekiah’s Reform     During the Reign of King Ahaz   Regarding Azuri , I wrote as follows in my university thesis (Chapter One, p. 160) :   A Revised History of the Era of King Hezekiah of Judah and its Background   AMAIC_Final_Thesis_2009.pdf   Azuri was king Ahaz’s apparently accommodating high-priest [Uriah] who, when ordered by his pro-Assyrian king, built an altar (based on either a Syrian or Assyrian model) in Jerusalem (2 Kings 16:10-11). [This was at the very time when kings Rezin of Aram (Syria) and Pekah of Israel had combined to mount a war against Jerusalem, with the intention, according to Isaiah (...