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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (58326)9/22/2014 11:25:43 AM
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He's very persuasive. And it's a fact that David (Dadua), Joab (Ayab), Jesse (Yoshiya) are mentioned by name as Habiru in the land of Canaan in the Amarna letters .... a few decades of royal correspondence from the time of Akhnaten. Also appearing is a Labayu and his sons, who correspond to King Saul and his sons. And what is said about these figures, their locations and their activities, corresponds EXACTLY to what we see in the early monarchy period in 1 & 2 Samuel. Other kings of Syria mentioned in the Amarna letters correspond to kings David dealt with in the Bible.

The conclusion that the Amarna letters and therefore Akhnaten correlate to the time of Saul and David is inescapable. That means the traditional dating of either the OT monarchs or many of the Egyptian pharaohs is wrong. Period. Which needs adjusting or do both?

Your idea that all ancient records are "dated" is false. The dates used in such records say things like "Year 8" of this or that ruler. Nothing like the BC/AD numbering of years used today was available. We don't know exactly when the various rulers of Egypt lived. We can put them in a crude chronological order, but the length of reigns and the problem of co-rulers (Egypt had multiple kingdoms during some periods with different pharaohs ruling different parts of the country ... especially true of Upper vs Lower Egypt).
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