Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

   by   Damien F. Mackey       “ Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush, was marching out to fight against him”.   2 Kings 19:9     As part of my effort to reform the later Egyptian dynastic history in my postgraduate thesis:   A Revised History of the Era of King Hezekiah   https://www.academia.edu/37440252/A_Revised_History_of_the_Era_of_King_Hezekiah   I had identified the long-reigning 25 th (Kushite) dynasty pharaoh, Piankhi (or Piye) (c. 744-714 BC, conventional dating) with the biblical Tirhakah (or Taharko) (hopelessly mis-dated to c. 690-664 BC, conventional dating). There is a scarab that seems to attest to this identification directly:   It is discussed in a most interesting article entitled by R. Clover, entitled “The Sabbath and Jubilee Cycle”, section Tirhakah Piankhi (commencing on p. 118): http...

  by   Damien F. Mackey       Part One: A conventional overview of this period   My intention in this series will be to contrast the conventional king-lists for Judah; Egypt-Ethiopia; and Assyro-Babylonia for this period (c. 716 – c. 596 BC) with my recently revised version of it which will lop off almost half a century from this approximately 120–year span.       {The following dates are all conventional, and approximate only, BC dates}   Later Kings of Judah   Hezekiah                                 716-687 Manasseh                                687-643 A...