Examination of Anachronisms in Biblical and Assyrian Chronologies

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Examination of Anachronisms in Biblical and Assyrian Chronologies is written by Gerard Gertoux and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1471027899 (ISBN 10) and 9781471027895 (ISBN 13).

The Assyrian chronology of the first millennium BCE is perfectly determined, as the succession of the kings is completely established for the period 1179-609 BCE and anchored on the total solar eclipse dated [30]/III/10 of Assur-dān III (773-755), 15 June 763 BCE, which makes it possible to establish an absolute chronology of this period. The biblical chronology of the 1st millennium BCE of the kings of Israel and Judah is also perfectly determined but most of the synchronisms with the Assyrian chronology do not work, which led Edwin R. Thiele, in his 1943 thesis on this subject, to invent nine artificial co-regencies between the kings of Israel and Judah to make all these synchronisms coincide (imperfectly). Several comprehensive studies of Thiele's biblical chronology have shown that his nine imaginary co-regencies destroy the great chronological coherence of the biblical (Masoretic) text without any reason, and furthermore that most of the biblical synchronisms with the Assyrian chronology were wrong, and thus that Thiele's biblical chronology was not reliable. The aim of the present study is to show that the dogma of the absence of co-regencies among Assyrian reigns, a dogma shared by almost all Assyriologists, is false and that such co-regencies were even frequent. As the Assyrian kings dated their reigns or co-regencies, not according to the number of years but according to the number of military campaigns (generally one per year), reporting the tributes collected during their co-regencies during their reigns to maintain the myth of a single kingship. Considering the Assyrian co-regencies, the biblical chronology of the Masoretic text is in perfect agreement with the Assyrian chronology, there are no anachronisms, unlike the Assyrian annals which contain several incorrectly dated or fictitious tributes.