Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

by Damien F. Mackey “Such representations … are found in the palace of Khorsabad, where the co-regent Sennacherib is facing king Sargon”. Gerard Gertoux A history follower of long-standing from Brazil has enthusiastically embraced my Sargon II as Sennacherib thesis in the context of the drama of the Book of Judith. However, an article by Gerard Gertoux: Dating the Sennacherib’s Campaign to Judah (5) Dating the Sennacherib's Campaign to Judah | Gerard GERTOUX - Academia.edu has prompted him to raise some questions with me now about the validity of my university thesis (2007) identification. Thus he has written: Dear “Professor” [sic] Mackey, I hope everything is well with you and yours. I recently read a very interesting academic article titled “Dating the Sennacherib’s Campaign to Judah,” which discusses the possibility of a co-regency between Sargon and Sennacherib, following a synchronization involving other kings from the period of Hezekiah; astrological p

Part One: Joseph ruled like Pharaoh in ancient Egypt by Damien F. Mackey I am not alone in my view that Egypt’s Eleventh Dynasty was an appropriate era for Joseph and the Famine. Creationist Patrick Clarke is another of whom I am aware who has proposed this same biblico-historical setting. Introduction The secret to uncovering the eras of Abraham, (Jacob) Joseph and Moses in relation to ancient Egypt is to recognise, as Dr. Donovan Courville had, that the Old and so-called ‘Middle’ kingdoms of Egypt were not purely linear, set hundreds of years apart, the one from the other, but that there was some overlap there – quite considerable overlap in my opinion. My findings on this have enabled me to draw up this very simple, but rather neat table (I not being a table person): Abraham (dynasties 1 and 10) Joseph (dynasties 3 and 11) Moses (dynasties 4 and 12) More recently I, with my recognition of the multi-identifiable Joseph also with Den, thought to have been a First Dy

by Damien F. Mackey The manifestation of Joseph in Egypt upon whom I want to concentrate here, initially, is as Den (or Udimu), considered to have been one of the First Dynasty pharaohs. A. Joseph of Egypt as Den (Usaphais) According to a legend as recorded by Artapanus (History of the Jews), c. 100 BC, Moses was “a king” of Egypt. This information, most crucial if it were true, but leading one on a wild goose chase if it were not, saw me spending years trying to identify Moses as one or other Pharaoh. And it is still leading scholars a merry dance, with Amenemhet IV being a favourite for King Moses, though some regard Moses as the monotheistic Akhnaton (Akhenaten). Moses was, as it turns out, Vizer and Chief Judge in Egypt: mighty, but not Pharaonic. His office is perfectly defined by the more belligerent of the two squabbling Hebrews, who rounded on him with (Exodus 2:14): ‘Who made you ruler [Vizier] and [Chief] judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you ki

Part One: ‘Imhotep’, was it a name or a title? by Damien F. Mackey “And two millennia later, other rulers, different people, raised [Imhotep] to the rank of a deity: in the era of the Ptolemies, the Greeks … revered him as the god of medicine on a par with their “native” Asclepius.” Alexandra Malenko Some of this article, originally written last June (2024), needs a bit of amending. Even a year ago I would not seriously have queried the historical reality of Imhotep. As far as I was concerned, the genius Imhotep of Egypt’s so-called Third Dynasty was the clear candidate for the biblical Joseph, son of Jacob, who had saved Egypt from a seven-year Famine. Did not Imhotep do the very same on behalf of his ruler (Pharaoh, as we say), Horus Netjerikhet, generally considered to have been the same as Djoser (or Zoser)? Thus we read, in part, in Netjerikhet’s (Neterkhet’s) celebrated Sehel Famine Stela: Year 18 of Horus: Neterkhet; the King of Upper and Lower Egypt: Nete