Dean Anderson
August 26, 2003, 04:53 PM
Hi guys, this is my first posting here (although hopefully not my last!) - and it's a question...
As most of you are probably aware, David Rohl has written a couple of books ('A Test of Time' and 'Legend') in which he proposes a new chronology for Egypt.
The consequence of this chronology is that he believes we should be looking in different periods of archeological finds if we want to find archaeological evidence for biblical cultures and personalities.
In the first book ('A Test of Time') he finds what he believes to be evidence of King David (in the form of a letter scribed on his behalf), King Solomon (in the form of the apartments and burial chamber of his Egyptian wife) and of Joseph, the Hebrew Vizier of Egypt (in the form of a statue of a Hebrew Vizier and - at the same time - evidence of a few years of really poor inundations.
In the second book he is on a bit shakier ground, but he goes through most of the book of Genesis looking for evidence of real-world analogues for its mythical places and stories (such as equating the Sumerian migration out of the area around Lake Van with the leaving of the Garden of Eden, and equating the biblical Nimrod with the Sumerian Enmerker [spelling?]).
Now I'm just a layman, but to me his research sounds much more sound and more plausible than that of such unorthodox theorists as Alan Alford and Eric Von Daniken (with whom he is often grouped as an 'Alternate Egyptology' author).
From the point of view of 'Biblical History', is anyone here who knows more about the subject than I do able to support (or criticise) his hypotheses for me?
His website is http://www.nunki.net/
Thanks in advance, guys!
As most of you are probably aware, David Rohl has written a couple of books ('A Test of Time' and 'Legend') in which he proposes a new chronology for Egypt.
The consequence of this chronology is that he believes we should be looking in different periods of archeological finds if we want to find archaeological evidence for biblical cultures and personalities.
In the first book ('A Test of Time') he finds what he believes to be evidence of King David (in the form of a letter scribed on his behalf), King Solomon (in the form of the apartments and burial chamber of his Egyptian wife) and of Joseph, the Hebrew Vizier of Egypt (in the form of a statue of a Hebrew Vizier and - at the same time - evidence of a few years of really poor inundations.
In the second book he is on a bit shakier ground, but he goes through most of the book of Genesis looking for evidence of real-world analogues for its mythical places and stories (such as equating the Sumerian migration out of the area around Lake Van with the leaving of the Garden of Eden, and equating the biblical Nimrod with the Sumerian Enmerker [spelling?]).
Now I'm just a layman, but to me his research sounds much more sound and more plausible than that of such unorthodox theorists as Alan Alford and Eric Von Daniken (with whom he is often grouped as an 'Alternate Egyptology' author).
From the point of view of 'Biblical History', is anyone here who knows more about the subject than I do able to support (or criticise) his hypotheses for me?
His website is http://www.nunki.net/
Thanks in advance, guys!