An Objectivist Answer to the Assyrian Synchronisms
A Reply to Beckman's Defense of Thiele's Chronology - Part 2
In writing our Chronological Framework of Ancient History series, Darrell White and I found that the ancient Egyptian chronology appears to agree with Ussher’s dates for the Exodus and for the death of Solomon, to the year. In attempting to publish these findings, we have received very passionate blowback that we cannot possibly support Ussher’s date for the Exodus (1491 BC) because it has been conclusively disproven by Thiele, Couke, McFall, Steinmann, and Young in their various books and papers over the past century.
This prompted us to write a rebuttal of Thiele’s chronology in three parts. It may eventually be turned into a book.
Part 1 - The Ancient Jewish Chronology
Part 2 - The Assyrian Synchronisms
Part 3 - The Founding Dates of Tyre and Carthage
In these papers, the authors engage with the arguments of Coucke, Thiele, McFall, Steinmann, and Young. Together, our three papers might be considered a frontal assault on the Divided Kingdom Chronology accepted in the majority of colleges and seminaries.
The second paper is now published as a preprint at the Open Science Foundation. You can read it here:
An Objectivist Answer to the Assyrian Synchronisms
