Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

    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...

  by Damien F. Mackey       How could Mohammed have encountered a young Christian from Nineveh when that city had been destroyed some 1200 years before (c. 612 BC), and so completely that no one knew where it was, until, another 1200 years (C19th AD) when modern archaeologists dug it up?     Introduction   The Book of Tobit revolutionises ancient history .     Although I came to the conclusion independently of the Book of Tobit that the Assyrian king, Sargon II, was the same ruler as his supposed son-successor, Sennacherib, one finds in the Book of Tobit (Chapter 1), the Assyrian sequence of “Shalmaneser”; “Sennacherib”; and “Esarhaddon”, with no mention whatsoever of Sargon.   The Book of Tobit revolutionises ancient geography .     If only I had taken more notice of the geography of the Book of Tobit, according to which one travels from Nineveh, to the Tigris River, to Charan (Haran) “midway”...

  by   Damien F. Mackey     “During the reigns of the Roman emperors  Claudius  and  Nero , an artist named Zenodorus made a copy in Gaul (a statue of Mercury), and he was later invited to build a similar statue in Rome, which became known as the "colossus Neronis". It was finished during the reign of  Vespasian ”.   Livius.org     1.     The Name   Tiberius:   Tiberius Claudius Nero Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus               Claudius:   Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus   Nero:   Nero   Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus   2.      Reluctant to rule   Regarding the reluctance of, now Tiberius, now Claudius, now Nero, to assume imperial responsibility, see my article:   Tiberius, Claudius, Ner...