Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

by Damien F. Mackey “Just as the speech of Elihu was terminated by a whirlwind, the first vision that Ezekiel sees begins with a whirlwind”. Nigel Bernard The prophet Zechariah has certain likenesses to the mysterious prophet Ezekiel. And I have long known that, thanks to some worthwhile comparisons made by other writers, Ezekiel has likenesses as well to young Elihu of the Book of Job. I shall point out a few of these here without, however, taking the further step of equating Ezekiel with Elihu. Ezekiel’s contemporary Elihu, who must have been - according to my reconstructions of the life of the righteous Job - a contemporary of the prophet Ezekiel, is found to have “similarities” with that prophet. According to my reconstructions of the life and times of Job (as Tobias, son of Tobit) such as: Job’s Life and Times (3) Job’s Life and Times Job’s long life during the neo-Assyrian era took him at least as far as the destruction of Nineveh (c. 612 BC, convention...

by Damien F. Mackey Both directly and indirectly, I have found certain insights of William Foxwell Albright to have been enormously beneficial in helping to piece together the biblico-historical (archaeological) picture puzzle. In one particular case, though, I consider his proposed reconstruction to have been an unmitigated disaster. 1. The big positives (a) - (d) “W.F. Albright, in full William Foxwell Albright, (born May 24, 1891, Coquimbo, Chile—died Sept. 19, 1971, Baltimore, Md., U.S.), American biblical archaeologist and Middle Eastern scholar, noted especially for his excavations of biblical sites”. https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-F-Albright I find that professor W. F. Albright - though being a scholar working within the restricting confines of the conventional model of archaeologico-history - had the unusual ability, at times, to burst through the seams of that tight model and to produce some very insightful new observations. (a) His smashing impact...

by Damien F. Mackey “Now Solomon. I think I destroyed Solomon, so to speak. Sorry for that!” Israel Finkelstein Historians and archaeologists have managed to make such a mess of things that now it is necessary to visit several supposed eras widely separated in time, and geographies, to locate the vital bits and pieces that go to make up the true King Solomon of Israel. The same thing can be said for pharaoh Ramses II ‘the Great’, except that, to find him, requires a search even more wide-ranging than in the case of Solomon - as I have observed before - a search spanning over an entire millennium of conventional history: The Complete Ramses II (1) The Complete Ramses II This is all a complete disaster - something urgently needs to be done about it. So, starting with the earliest (in conventional terms) manifestation of King Solomon, let us work our way down from there to the C10th BC king in Jerusalem, who is the one far more familiar to us. Solomon’s BC Manifestatio...

“A text from the 18th century BC [sic] records shipments of tin from Mari to “Ibni-Addad king of Hazor.” The form of the name in this text is Accadian; the West Semitic form would be “Yabni-Haddad.” Biblical Jabin (Yabin) is simply a shortened form of this same name”. Anonymous Taken from: https://www.galaxie.com/article/bspade05-4-04 ________________________________________ BSP 5:4 (Autumn 1992) p. 122 Archaeology News And Notes Name Of Jabin Found At Hazor A fragment of a clay tablet addressed to Jabin, king of Hazor, was found this past summer in excavations at Hazor. Although the Jabin of the tablet is neither of the Jabins mentioned in the Bible, it attests to the fact that Jabin was a dynastic name at Hazor. The king of Hazor at the time of the Conquest in ca 1400 BC was named Jabin according to Joshua 11:1. In the days of Deborah and Barak, nearly 200 years later, the name of the king of Hazor was also Jabin (Jgs 4; Ps 83:9). This has been a problem to Biblical sch...

“Some of the parallels are so striking that a person would basically have to conclude that John borrowed from the earlier writings of Josephus, and then used the language of Josephus to prophesy of a much later war. We know, however, that John wrote his prophecies first, and Josephus wrote his works a decade or so later. John wrote before the Jewish-Roman War and Josephus wrote after the war”. Adam Maarschalk Adam Maarschalk told this of “Josephus and the Book of Revelation (9 Case Studies)” in a Conference of November, 2016: https://preteristconferencecalls.wordpress.com/2016/11/02/06-adam-maarschalk-josephus-and-the-book-of-revelation-9-case-studies/ In John Wesley’s commentary on Matthew 24 (1755), he said, “Josephus’s History of the Jewish War is the best commentary on this chapter…” I believe this is also true for the book of Revelation. The preterist movement is known for believing that the book of Revelation was written before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 ...