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383 pages of results. 321. The Queen of Sheba (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... Jordan, which is closer to Egypt, rather than the Euphrates. 3. Scholars following the established construction of history could not close their eyes to the similarity of these enterprises: ". . . ambitious and inventive was Solomon's ... prince who was never mentioned in the history of other countries? Many are inclined to believe that there is no historical basis for this legendary romance; others, who saw not fiction but real adventure in the story, unsuccessfully sought ... . As the bas-reliefs of Deir el Bahari showed exotic animals and plants, zoologists and botanists were called by the historians to determine the place to which they were indigenous.25 Palestine and Syria were never included among the possibilities. ...
322. The Scientific Reception System [Books] [de Grazia books]
... Several scientists and intellectuals who attempted his defence were silenced or sanctioned severely. I. Bernard Cohen, Professor of history of science (Harvard University), wrote sympathetically, almost enthusiastically, of Velikovsky's work in the advance summary of ... reception system for consideration. What accounts for the favourable or unfavourable reception of men, beliefs and practices? The historical sociology of science is obliged, in the long run, to provide materials and analysis in a large enough number ... . These obligations were, of course, fulfilled by Dr Velikovsky. He consulted many special-ists, among them the historian Pfeiffer and astronomers Adams and Motz. The book was examined carefully before publication. Macmillan held it for three years ...
323. The Egyptian Prince Moses [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... From: Proceedings of The Third Seminar of Catastrophism and Ancient History (1986) Home | Issue Contents The Egyptian Prince Moses Charles McDowell Introduction Moses is one historical character about whom much is written but about whom we need still ... information. The biblical account in Exodus tells us almost nothing about his first forty years. Indeed, it seems the ancient Jewish writers deliberately distorted his early years for fear the truth about his life at the Egyptian court would cause ... of the Roman aristocracy were constantly vying with one another for military leadership. The Ideal Stoic Model. The Stoic historian Diodorus fixed his attention on a pharaoh called Osiris, about whom he expounded greatly. Osiris was Phoenician-born- to ...
324. The Reliability of Biblical Synchronisms in Constructing an Historical Chronology from Rehoboam to Hezekiah [Journals] [SIS Review]
... reign. The fact that they can be reorganised into a more coherent system, which is in accord with external history, indicates that the synchronisms are reasonably reliable. The remainder of this paper identifies the most likely of alternative dates ... 1994 (Vol XVI) (Oct 1995) Home | Issue Contents The Reliability of Biblical Synchronisms in Constructing an Historical Chronology from Rehoboam to Hezekiah by Daphne Garbett The Old Testament supplies the length of each king's reign, the age ... has been expressed. It can then be recomputed into standard' years which are equivalent to Julian years used by historians and astronomers. Larsson [15] has analysed Stenring's findings. He does not share Thiele's view that biblical synchronisms ...
325. The Mosaic Calendar [Journals] [Aeon]
... text this way, and Aitchison should at the very least attempt to defend the premise against the entire weight of history which opposes it. He might even succeed, but I think it is very inappropriate to write an article of ... since he makes no attempt to support the claim, and since modern practice negates the claim, and since no historical sources exist that would indicate that his claim was ever true- he has refuted his own hypothesis very nicely. ... calendar. Whether modern practice supports the original Biblical information is not the issue. My task, as a catastrophist historian, is to recover the situation under Moses' administration, particularly where it seems to argue in favor of the ...
326. Focus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... 7th-9th April, 1978, under the title "Ages in Chaos? (How valid are Velikovsky's views on Ancient History?)", was widely praised by its participants. The Proceedings of the Conference are being prepared by the ... led archaeologists to see "the most flagrant discrepancy between Scriptural statements and archaeological discoveries, throwing a shadow on the historical veracity of the Hebrew Testament". In Dr Velikovsky's view, the ease with which these findings, along with ... Nature of the Historical Record. This provided an introduction to the varieties of evidence available to the archaeologist and ancient historian, and the pitfalls awaiting the unwary, which made much of the written evidence, in particular, extremely unreliable ...
327. The British Connection [Books] [de Grazia books]
... the active consideration by scientists, scholars, and students of alternatives to the theory of uniformity in astronomy and earth history: (b ) to promote a better understanding of the nature of the earth, the solar system and human ... , through the combined use of historical and contemporary evidence of all kinds, and to encourage a continuous reassessment of the validity of the basic assumptions of the discipline concerned by testing these against evidence; (c ) to promote better ... leading- issued the first number of Kronos. Kronos became editorially the child of Lewis Greenberg, a young art historian of the faculty of Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. He recruited a group of convinced supporters of V. ...
328. A Chronology for the Middle Kingdom and Israel's Egyptian Bondage - II. Israel in Egypt [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Following the end of the Twelfth Dynasty in 1786 B.C . the next astronomically determinable anchor-point' in Egyptian history is the ninth year of the reign of King Amenophis I, the second ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty." ... an average reign length of 6 ½ years, and actually chose to accept the Manethonian total of 453 years as historically correct [23]. (Petrie was, of course, able to adopt a high total for Dynasty XIII ... of his belief that an extra Sothic period of 1,460 years should be interposed between the XIIth Dynasty and the XVIIIth.) Further, the assumption that the XIIIth Dynasty consisted of 60 rulers derives simply from the statement of ...
329. "Just Plainly Wrong": A Critique of Peter Huber (Second Installment) [Journals] [Kronos]
... disregard hard documentary evidence if it goes against the teachings of the Master! Intercalary months were a reality throughout Babylonian history from before Hammurabi to the latest times, and you simply cannot afford to ignore them when discussing calendaric matters. ... the chronology becomes orthodox. The grounds for the chronology are forgotten, and it is assumed to rest on solid historical evidence. No one remembers or can even find out any more that it rests on astronomical retrocalculations. Then a ... generation of astronomers and historians play the game again, this time in reverse direction. The chronology is taken as independently fixed, and the eclipse or other event is taken as datable on purely historical grounds. Then someone retrocalculates in ...
330. Questions from the Floor [Articles]
... an individual because I saw that he solved certain problems in my area of expertise, namely the field of art history, and I would like to answer a few of the points raised by Dr. Hewsen, not all of ... import of his work, as he liked to say, the heresy of it, his work stands as an historical document. Worlds in Collision will be changed and modified in due course, it is actually partially modified already. ... of the fellow who popularizes the paradigm scientific revolutions, and in Copernicus' work, and in every field, historians of science are the first ones to challenge his paradigm because they've seen how we change our opinion every day as ...
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