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| Title: Studies in the chronology of the divided monarchy of Israel Type: Thesis Year: 1986 Abstract: "This thesis represents a fresh analysis of the biblical chronological material concerning the Divided Monarchy of Israel in the light of recent advances in our understanding of the redactional history of the books of Kings and Chronicles. The first chapter includes a critical analysis of the influential chronologies of W. F. Albright and of E. R. Thiele, as well as a list of methodological guidelines for future chronological research. The next three chapters examine three particularly relevant issues of comparative chronology: Chapter Two consists of a close analysis of the Tyrian King List of Menander of Ephesus as transmitted by Josephus; the recent proposal of F. M. Cross dating the founding of Solomon's temple to the year 968 B.C.E. on the basis of his reconstruction of the Tyrian data is accepted. Chapters Three and Four re-examine the Egyptian chronological data for the Twenty-second to the Twenty-fifth Dynasties, especially as they impinge upon the biblical chronological situation. In particular, the issues of the dating of Pharaoh Shishak (Shoshenq I) as well as the question of the participation of Pharaoh Tirhakah (Taharqa) in the Assyrian invasion of Palestine by Sennacherib are examined in some detail. An excursis following Chapter Four discusses the identity of the reference to So, King of Egypt in 2 Kgs 17:4. Chapter Five returns to the biblical data themselves: the hypothesis of two separate king lists underlying the present regnal totals for the Israelite and Judahite monarchs in both Kings and Chronicles is examined in the light of the redactional history of these books, and the suggestion of the calculation of a 480 year period of time for the Davidic monarchy lying behind the exilic redaction of Kings is entertained. An appendix to the thesis presents the writer's tentative chronological reconstruction for the period of the United and Divided Monarchy of Israel." Keywords: Antiquities |