Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

  by Damien F. Mackey     “The first march of Necho-Ramses II toward the Euphrates is related on the obelisk of Tanis and on the rock inscription of Nahr el Kalb near Beirut, written in his second year. The rock inscriptions of Ramses II are not as old as that of Essarhadon on the same rock”.  Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky     Thus wrote Dr. Velikovsky in # 211 of his: https://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm   T HESES FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF ANCIENT HISTORY   He, retaining the potent king Esarhaddon in his conventional place following Sennacherib, but dramatically lowering the mighty Ramses II of Egypt’s Nineteenth Dynasty by some 700 years, from his conventional date of c. 1280 BC down to the time of Nebuchednezzar (so-called II), conventionally c. 580 BC, now saw Ramses II as being “not as old as … Essarhadon”.   This was in stark contrast to the conventional structure of things which has Ramses II (1280)...

    by   Damien F. Mackey          “At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goyim, these kings went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar)”.   Genesis 14:1-2        Jewish tradition identifies Nimrod with the biblical “Amraphel” king of Shinar who accompanied “Chedorlaomer” (var. Kedorlaomer) on the somewhat ill-fated campaign as recorded in Genesis 14. According to this tradition, Nimrod had formerly been “routed” by Chedorlaomer before now joining him as his “vassal” in his war with the kings of Pentapolis: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11548-nimrod   … according to one opinion, that Nimrod was called "Amraphel" ( = "he said, throw in"; Targ. pseudo-Jonathan to Gen. xiv. 1; Ge...

  "<img src="https://r.hswstatic.com/w_907/gif/mad-royals-3b.jpg" width="907" alt="" border="0">"            by   Damien F. Mackey        “[Nabonidus] saw in this sacred enclosure [Ebabbar] a statue of Sargon … half of its head was missing …. Given his reverence for the gods and   his respect for kingship, he … restored the head of this statue, and put back its face”.     According to a late chronographic document concerning Babylon emanating from either the Seleucid or Parthian age, King Nabonidus had found a damaged statue of Sargon of Akkad the head of which he had carefully restored by his artisans. In this particular document, Sargon of Akkad is distinguished from his “son”, Naram-Sin - though I believe, and have written to the effect (e.g. article below), that Sargon and Naram-Sin were one and the same power...

    by   Damien F. Mackey        “After surveying previous attempts to identify an “historical” Nimrod, the author then  suggests that the biblical figure is modeled after the combined traditions  about Sargon of Akkad and his grandson, Naram-Sin”.   Dr. Yigal Levin       Part One: Hunting him amongst the Akkadians     Yigal Levin, when referring to “… “The Table of Nations” recorded in Genesis x”, has described as “arguably the most fascinating passage   in the Table – the Nimrod story recounted in verses 8-12” ( Nimrod the Mighty, King of Kish, King of Sumer and Akkad “ Nimrod the Mighty, King of Kish, King of Sumer and Akkad”, VT, Vol. 52, Fasc. 3, July 2002, p. 350). Vol. 52, Fasc. 3 (Jul., 2002), Vol. 52, Fasc. 3 (Jul., 2002), pp. 350-366 (17 pages)     Reasonable historical candidates who have been proposed for the imposing character of ...