SYNCHRONIZED CHRONOLOGY RETHINKING MIDDLE EAST ANTIQUITY by Roger Henry

Author:Roger Henry [Roger Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Algora Publishing
Published: 2002-12-12T21:00:00+00:00

11. THE RISE OF ASSYRIA. PART 3 OF THE TELL EL AMARNA LETTERS

The last two chapters have been an additional buttress to the new chronology between Egypt and Israel and will not be the last detour in this study. Since it is impossible or, at least not very useful, to isolate the history of any one country or region of the ancient world, we will go on to examine the effects of the chronology on the other neighbors.

The Mycenaean links to the 18th Dynasty were one natural area of study. In the chapter on Israel and Damascus at war, Samaria suffered a combination of a severe and prolonged drought coupled with a siege at the hands of the Syrians. In the midst of the ensuing famine, when pitiful substitutes for food items were selling for a fortune, the prophet Elisha made a prediction that on the following day the cost of food would drop. This was to be evidence of an act of God, who would intervene to break the siege.

For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites,

and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. 1

The Syrians had fled in such a fearful hurry that they abandoned all their provisions in camp. The besieged Samaritans were able to salvage so much food that they could sell “Two measures of barley for a shekel and a measure of fine flour for a shekel.”2

1. II Kings 7:6.

Chronology to Chapters 11-13

DATE EGYPT PALESTINE THEBAN DYNASTY JUDAH ISRAEL ASSYRIA

840 (AKHENATEN) JEHORAM JEHORAM (?) LIBYAN DYNASTY AHAZIAH/ ATHALIA JEHU SHALMANESER III

820 SHOSHENK I JOASH JEHOAHAZ ADADNIRARI

800 OSORKON I AMAZIAH JEHOASH

780 JEROBOAM UZZIAH SHALMANESER IV

760 OSORKON II ZECHARIAH/ SHALLUM TIGLATH-PILESER III

740 MENAHEM SHOSHENK II AHAZ PEKAHIAH

720 HEZEKIAH HOSHEA NUBIAN DYNASTY SARGON II

700 TIRHAKA MANASSEH (SETI I) SENNANCHERIB

680 (NECHO I) ESARHADDON ASSURBANIPAL

660

This little incident is a hint that there are new entities for the Israelites to deal with. No longer will it be just Egyptians and neighboring city-states. The international situation was changing and would never be the same again.

2. II Kings 7:18.

11. The Rise of Assyria. Part 3 of the Tell El Amarna Letters

Even if the feared Hittite mercenaries were only imagined, the possibility of this event must have been real. Now, the Hittites had disappeared as a united force about 300 years earlier, according to Conventional Chronology. In the Synchronized Chronology, the Hittites of this era were the city-states north of Syria who occupied a large area known as “Hatti.” They were not united as a kingdom and were comprised of an assortment of ethnic and linguistic types. Were it not for the rising power of the Assyrians, the groups making up what we call the “Hittites” might have remained small and independent. Instead, in the face of the new reality, they were pressured into forging new alliances just as were the Syrian and Palestinian states.

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