Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

by   Damien F. Mackey         “… there is a clear parallel between the Inscription of Esarhaddon and a text of Assurbanipal [who] … says that he has brought the peoples that live in the sea and those that inhabit the high mountains under his yoke, and this reference, as we understand it, is very like Esarhaddon’s text, since it is also “a general summary”.”   Arcadio Del Castillo and Julia Montenegro         Why this particularly interests me is due to my identification of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal as one and the same king, as well as being alter egos of the mighty Nebuchednezzar:     Aligning Neo-Babylonia with Book of Daniel. Part Two: Merging late neo-Assyrians with Chaldeans   https://www.academia.edu/38330399/Aligning_Neo-Babylonia_with_Book_of_Daniel._Part_Two_Merging_late_neo-Assyrians_with_Chaldeans   Arcadio Del Castillo and Julia Montenegro have made a valiant effort to identify the elusive biblical “Tarshish” in their article

 by   Damien F. Mackey         Noah and the other survivors of the Flood would presumably (of necessity) have spent some period of time in the region where the Ark had landed. Arabic sources from the 10th century mention a village called Thamanin , built by Noah at the foot of Mount Çudi ( Judi).       Histories of the Sons of Noah   The fourth Genesis toledôt (“family history”) was written (owned) by the three sons of Noah:      4  Genesis 6:9b  Genesis 10:1a   Shem, Ham and Japheth    “This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood”.     This triple-authored history, which provides us with an eye-witness account of the great Flood, is followed by the famous Table of Nations (Genesis 10) and the incident of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11): all Shem’s toledôt.    5  Genesis 10:1b  Genesis 11:10a   Shem   By now, the three brothers must have gon

by   Damien F. Mackey             Those whom Sir Arthur Evans fancifully named ‘the Minoans’, based on the popular legend of King Minos, son of Zeus, are biblically and historically attested as the Philistines.           Gavin Menzies has followed Arthur Evans in labelling as “Minoans” the great sea-faring and trading nation that is the very focal point of his fascinating book, The Lost Empire of Atlantis : History's Greatest Mystery Revealed (HarperCollins, 2011). Though the ex-submariner, Menzies, can sometimes ‘go a bit overboard’ - or, should I say, he can become a bit ‘airborne’ (and don’t we all?) - he is often highly informative and is always eminently readable. According to the brief summary of the book that we find at Menzies’ own site: http://www.gavinmenzies.net/lost-empire-atlantis/the-book/     ... the Minoans. It’s long been known that this extraordinary civilisation, with its great palaces and sea ports based in Crete and