King Solomon needs a shift to Late Bronze Age of wealth and international trade
by Damien F. Mackey “The wealth and international trade attested by these [Late Bronze Age] levels certainly reflect the age of Solomon far more accurately than the Iron Age cities normally attributed to him, from which we have “no evidence of any particular luxury”.” Revisionists have accepted the need to re-date the Eighteenth Dynasty era of Egyptian history, of the Late Bronze Age [LBA], to the time of kings David and Solomon of Israel. See e.g. my: Solomon and Sheba https://www.academia.edu/3660164/Solomon_and_Sheba Archaeologically, Dr. John Bimson had re-set this all into a proper perspective in his important article, “Can There be a Revised Chronology Without a Revised Stratigraphy?” ( SIS Review, 6:1-3, Glasgow Proceedings, pp. 18-20). Here is the relevant section of it for King Solomon: The Late Bronze Age and the Reign of Solomon …. Al...