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... by Manetho, an extensive Jew-baiting literature followed.... The Israelites endured much suffering from this distortion of history. They bore their pain for being identified with the Hyksos. The persecution started with the misstatements of Manetho, ... holding its own against the Allies, Velikovsky "discovered" that the earliest known anti-Semitism had originated in a baseless historical misidentification. This "discovery" was surely very welcome to a Jew in those unhappy days. Velikovsky's Critics I ... to write the foregoing analysis because I could not find, 25 years after the publication of Worlds in Collision, a satisfactory discussion of the merits of Velikovsky's work. That constitutes implicitly a resounding condemnation of Velikovsky's critics. In Chapter ...
262. The New Science of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... known, found that Vico had made precisely this claim two centuries before. Vico insisted that, if a full history and understanding of man was to be known, the myths of earlier times ought to be taken seriously as themselves ... in that stage of history when rationality became ascendant, a collective amnesia took place; men denied that their own historical origins were contained in those myths, which were, by this time assumed to be merely the distortions and exaggerations ... at least a hundred years, and did not really come into its own until the twentieth century. Then those historians and social scientists who began to realize that a universal and inter-related science of man was becoming a necessity of thought ...
263. The Female Star [Journals] [Aeon]
... served as the primary means of recording and communicating ancient man's most fundamental beliefs regarding the nature of the cosmos, history, and the origin of the sacred. In this sense, ancient myth constitutes an important chapter in the intellectual ... that the Saturn theory has an important contribution to make, for it holds that these particular mythical themes commemorate specific historical events witnessed by ancient man the world over- namely, spectacular cataclysms associated with the respective planets. The Lady ... Heaven A survey of the mythology surrounding Venus reveals a vast set of endlessly recurring themes: the planet as mother goddess; the planet as agent of death and destruction; the planet as "eye" of heaven; the planet ...
264. Chronological Implications of a Proper Identification of the Labyrinth: Part II [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... One test of the second hypothesis would be to investigate whether there are synchronisms between New Kingdom historical records and the history of the Ptolemaic period as known from the Greek historians and Ptolemaic records. Most of this paper demonstrates that this ... led me to suggest a substitute chronology. I hypothesize that c1700 BC is the earliest date for the rise of historical Egyptian civilization. This hypothesis results from the line of evidence discussed in Part I.G . of ref. ... whether there are synchronisms between New Kingdom historical records and the history of the Ptolemaic period as known from the Greek historians and Ptolemaic records. Most of this paper demonstrates that this is the case. The North and South Buildings: ...
265. A Note on the Term "Hyksos" [Journals] [Kronos]
... A Symposium On October 30, 1974, a scholarly symposium was held in Pittsburgh within the framework of the Duquesne History Forum.(1 ) It was organized to evaluate and debate the merit of Immanuel Velikovsky's reconstruction of ancient history ... demonstrate, were not only blatant gibberish, but stand as embarrassing proof of his own obvious unfamiliarity with Velikovsky's published historical work and failure to practice the very methodology he preaches. Unfortunately, Pensee's uncritical review failed to strip away the ... antiquarian Josephus (Against Apion, I, 82) who had based his remarks upon_those of the Egyptian historian Manetho. Moreover, if one additionally checks reference #7 on the very same page, Velikovsky openly and freely ...
266. Carbon 14 Dates and Velikovsky's Revision of Ancient History [Journals] [Pensee]
... Spring-Summer 1973) "Immanuel Velikovsky Reconsidered IV" Home | Issue Contents Carbon 14 Dates and Velikovsky's Revision of Ancient History Israel M. Isaacson (E .M .S .) Samples from Pylos and Gordion: The author is ... uncertainty in a couple of places (1 ). The absolute dates obtained are founded on numerous texts of a historical nature inscribed on stone and written on hides and papyrus, on lists telling the order and regnal periods of the ... . Ed. There are physical means of determining dates for objects. These are not subject to the theories of historians but are impersonal and scientific. If understood and used properly they furnish unprejudiced dates. These depend upon the conversion ...
267. The Mythical History of the Comet Venus (Part I) [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon II:4 (1991) Home | Issue Contents The Mythical History of the Comet Venus (Part I)David Talbott INTRODUCTION Taking the mythically-based model of the polar configuration as a reference,(1 ) ... of the physical forces required. Our reasoning, in other words, must proceed from the fullest possible consideration of historical data. Which is to say, there is little value in contriving abstract physical models, then attempting to project ... models onto the ancient experience. Mere physical theory allows for limitless possibilities. Hence, it is not significant that a model may "work" in a theoretical sense. The obvious prior question is: did it happen? To ...
268. Radiocarbon Dating and Velikovskian Catastrophism [Journals] [Pensee]
... it has been a primary assumption of the method that the overall C13 ratio of the earth has not changed throughout history. Radiocarbon dating of an organic sample depends directly on the concentration of radiocarbon dioxide in the atmosphere during the time ... Berkeley, California. 1. INTRODUCTION In Worlds in Collision Velikovsky proposed a physical, catastrophic hypothesis based primarily upon historical evidences (1 ). Scientists, however, will not accept such a hypothesis unless the physical evidence is compelling ... and historians are not likely to interpret their own data in opposition to the "laws of science." Nor will purely theoretical models carry much weight in supporting so revolutionary a hypothesis as Velikovsky's. Therefore, it is necessary to ...
269. The Age of Moses [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... From: Catastrophism and Ancient History XV:2 (July 1993) Home | Issue Contents The Age of Moses by John W. Hand INTRODUCTION The hero and founder of Judaism, the man who met God and brought down ... Egypt's Empire Period in the mid-thirteenth century B.C . is matched by the violence this does to the whole historical account in the Bible from Genesis to Kings. In his epic film "The Ten Commandments", Cecil B ... De Mille shows the strapping Pharaoh Ramesses II turning his chariot aside at the Red Sea crossing and letting his army proceed to their destruction without him since we know that this mighty king did not meet his own end in this way ...
270. Support for Heinsohn's Chronology is Misplaced [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... a methodology is basically absurd and it leads to all sorts of unwarranted conclusions. Consider the different reign lengths and histories of the supposed alter-egos, Hammurabi and Darius I. There is no suggestion that Hammurabi's succession was disputed, while ... by Lester J. Mitcham Emmet J. Sweeney is a bold man. Having applauded that section of Velikovsky's proposed historical revision (19th = 26th Dynasty and Hittites = Chaldaeans - in C & C Workshop 1986:2 , p ... in favour of an equally implausible set of theses. I am referring to Sweeney's review of Gunnar Heinsohn's "Mesopotamian Historiography" in C & C Workshop 1987:2 , pp.20-22. In rushing to defend the Heinsohn theories ...
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