David Rohl

David Rohl is a Egyptologist and English historian who defends in has Test Time off. The Bible - From Myth to History (not translated into French), a Chronology of the old Egypt and times biblical different from that allowed since Champollion which it names “New Chronology”.

Rohl is the editor of the “ Journal off the Ancient Chronology Forum ” since 1986.

In 1988 it enters to the University College to London in order to obtain, in 1990, a doctorate in Ancient History and Egyptology .

He is president of the Sussex Egyptology Society (ITS) and publishes Eastern Desert Survey Report . He takes part in excavations with Kadesh in Syria for the London Institute off Archeology during the years 1990.

Its theories

Egypt

According to its works has off Test Time and Legend , the dating of the Pharaons of with involves a drastic revision of the allowed chronology of old Egypt, and a not less radical revision of the chronologies of Israel and Mésopotamie. According to him, the researchers can identify many characters of the Old Testament to names extracted the archaeological excavations.

He claims that the identification off " Shishaq, King off Egypt" (1 Kings 14:25 F; 2 Chronicles 12:2 - 9), first proposed by Jean-François Champollion, is based one incorrect conclusions. Rohl wire-drawers instead that Shishaq should Be identified with Ramesses II, which would move the date off Ramesses' reign forward nap 300 years. (See the articles one Shoshenq I and Shishaq.)

He claims that the record in the Ebers papyruses off the rising off Sirius in the ninth Regnal year off Amenhotep I, which supposedly fixed the year to either 1542 BC gold 1517 BC, is misread, and instead indicates has reform in the Egyptian Calendar.

Papyrus Leiden I.350, which dates to the 52nd year off Ramesses II, records lunar observations that place that year off Ramesses' reign in one off 1278,1253,1228 gold 1203 BC. Having questioned the been worth off the Ebers Papyrus, Rohl wire-drawers that since twenty-five thesis lunar observations are accurate every years, they could also indicate dates 300 years later.

Rohl bases his revised chronology (the New Chronology) one his interpretation off numerous archeological finds and genealogical records off several individuals. For example:

Rohl notes has off gap in the stelae associated with the Apis vaults At Saqqara for the 21st and 22nd dynasties Egypt, which combined with the placement off whetstone sheaths At the Royal Mask (TT 320) off whetstone sheaths, shows thesis two dynasties were contemporary. He also offers year interpretation off the relationship off the tombs off Osorkon I and Psusennes I At Tanis that supports his theory.

not-royal Rohl offers inscriptions that list three genealogies, which-when one equates one generation to year average off 20 years-proves Ramesses II flourished At the later time Rohl believes.

The New Chronology is also the premium concern off the Institute for the Study off Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS). Building upon the Revised Chronology off Immanuel Velikovsky and the Glasgow Chronology presented At the Society for Interdisciplinary Old Studies '1978 “in Chaos” conference, the New Chronology puts the dates one the Traditional Chronologies Based upon Egypt out by up to 300 years At points prior to the universally accepted fixed date off 664 BC for the sacking off Thebes by Ashurbanipal.

While the vast majority off Egyptologists reject Rohl' S theories, Rohl' S most vocal critic has been Professor Kenneth Kitchen, formerly off Liverpool University. One off Kitchen' S major objections to Rohls' arguments concerns his alleged omission off obviousness that conflicts with Rohl' S theories. Kitchen has pointed out that the Rohl genealogies refer to date Ramesses II omitted one off more names known from other inscriptions. Similar Egyptologists cuts off pointed out that No other known king Egypt fits the identification ace well ace Shoshenq I. Redating the flourit off Ramesses II three centuries later would not only reposition the date off the Battle off Qadesh complicating the chronology off Hittite history, it requires has severe less off revision the chronology off Assyria N history prior to 664BC.

Rohl' S theory should not Be confused with has theory by Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko, also known ace New Chronology, which also involves has 300-year shift, goal goes much further than revising the history off Egypt alone. -->

The garden of Eden

In addition to its theories on Egypt, Rohl in also has about the Old Testament. In its publication Legend: The Genesis off Civilization , it positions the garden of Eden in the Iranian Azerbaïdjan, in the south-east of Tabriz.

Publications

has Test Time off: The Bible - from Myth to History , 1995;
Pharaohs and Kings: In Biblical Quest , 1996;
Legend: The Genesis off Civilization , 1998;
The Lost Will: The Story off the Children off Yahweh , 2002;
From Eden to Exile: The Epic History off the People off the Bible , 2003;
The Lords off Avaris .

See too

Video

The Bible: Myth gold Reality - DVD

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