Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

  by   Damien F. Mackey     Abdi-ashirta was an incredibly close contemporary of pharaoh Amenhotep.   Abdi-ashirta 1385–1344 BC – 41 years, conventional dating. ( Amenhotep 1388 BC - 1351 BC/1350 BC – 38 years, conventional dating)     The biblical Ben-Hadad extraordinarily had a following of 32 kings. That is unprecedented. Here is what I wrote of it in my postgraduate thesis (2007):   A Revised History of the Era of King Hezekiah of Judah and its Background   https://sydney.academia.edu/DamienMackey/Thesis   (Volume 1, p. 67):   … the Velikovskian equation of EA’s [El Amarna’s] Abdi-ashirta as Ben-Hadad I would seriously contradict the view that the latter was a relatively minor, though problematical, king in the EA [El Amarna] scheme of things; for Ben-Hadad I was no lesser king: “King Ben-hadad of Aram gathered all his army together; thirty-two kings were with him, along with horse...

  by   Damien F. Mackey     That a transformation of some kind had come over this Iaanhamu Velikovsky inferred from Rib-Addi’s revised attitude towards him; an attitude that had changed dramatically in the course of Rib-Addi’s reign.     Amongst Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky’s intriguing match-ups of historical figures in the C14th BC El Amarna (EA) series with C9th BC biblical characters (in Ages in Chaos I, 1952), was the variously spelled Ianhama (Ianhamu, Iaanhamu, Yanhamu), identified as the leprous Syrian captain, Na’aman.     In my university thesis (2007) I wrote a section on this (Volume One, pp. 103-1o8). Here is a part of it:   …. Velikovsky referred to a couple of facts in the Naaman story that he said seemed “somewhat strange” ….   In … the [Naaman] story, two facts are somewhat strange. First, inasmuch as Ben-Hadad himself was at the head of the thirty-two captains of his army, why, in the story of...