Akhnaton an unlikely contemporary of Solomon

 

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Damien F. Mackey

 

 

 

To the contributor who hopefully believes that he has ‘proof that Akhenaten had to be reigning during, or after, King Solomon's reign …’.

 

 

I replied:

 

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If you are really going to solve all of the ‘mysteries’ of Akhnaton’s peculiar reign, as you hopefully suggest - and I love your confidence - then you need to be able to set Akhnaton aright in his proper historical location. And, as you would be aware, it is not sufficient just to drop one pharaoh into a particular spot (in this case, during, or near to, Solomon’s reign). You would need to find a Jerusalem-conquering “Shishak” of Egypt at about this same time, and, of course, an impressive Queen of Sheba. 

 

Immanuel Velikovsky had provided all of that in his plausible re-locating of the Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty at the time of the United, then Divided, Kingdom of Israel, with the powerful Thutmose III as “Shishak” and Hatshepsut as “Sheba”, followed later by a well-worked out locating of Akhnaton (El Amarna) at about the time of Ahab king of Israel.

 

David Rohl, too, in his revision, is careful to present an overall scenario around, say, his Ramses II as “Shishak”, though I don’t think that he has managed to be successful.

 

He and others, such as Creationist Patrick Clarke, completely fail in their respective revisions to come up with a plausible Queen of Sheba.

 

Do you have an overall revision, then, that justifies Akhnaton’s being situated at the time of King Solomon?

 

Best of luck with it all,

Damien.