Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

  by Damien F. Mackey   Joseph and Moses serve to knit together Egypt’s early dynastic history, and they even bring into synchronicity the Old Kingdom with the so-called ‘Middle’ Kingdom.     Introduction   Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) renders to Joseph the highest praise (49:15): “… no man like Joseph has been born , and his bones are cared for”. Joseph, a saviour of Egypt during the Famine, may have said this very thing of himself. For, in what was one of his many Egyptian guises, as I think (see below), he will say:   “I am a man without equal …. I am the front of people and the back of people because (my) like will not exist; he will not exist. (My) like could not have been born; he was not born”.   Moses, on the other hand, would probably never have said anything like this about himself. Although it was later written of him that (Acts 7:22): “Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful ...

    by   Damien F. Mackey Reading through the accounts of the kings of Israel in Kings and Chronicles, I was really surprised to find that Jeroboam II does not figure in Chronicles.     Suspecting (16 th September, 2019), once again, that there may be some degree of duplication amongst the listings of the kings of Israel of the Divided Monarchy period, and then r eading through the accounts of the kings of Israel in Kings and Chronicles, I was really surprised to find that Jeroboam II does not figure at all in Chronicles.   That I was not mistaken or deluding myself about this was confirmed when I read introductory parts of Todd Bolen’s thesis (2002):   The Reign of Jeroboam II: A Historical and Archaeological Interpretation   https://www.academia.edu/1644551/The_Reign_of_Jeroboam_II_A_Historical_and_Archaeological_Interpretation   For instance, Todd Bolen commences by writing of the scant treatment of...