Paqid Yirmeyahu

Paqid 16, www.netzarim.co.il (Ra'anana, Israel) at Netzarim

There is a gap between scientific dating and Egypto-archeological dating--of nearly 2 centuries.
(The scientific datings generally being earlier than archeological dating by 1.5-1.75 centuries or
so.) A fundamental problem with traditional archeological dating, that the public will be shocked
to learn, is that supposed connections from archeological dating to absolute (scientific) dating
depend on a single source, a B.C.E. 3rd century Egyptian named Manetho who published a list of
Pharaohs from an unknown source and guesstimated, from the sequence, at the dates the various
Pharaohs reigned. Archeologists have treated this as if it were factually correct dating. It's
unsurprising that it frequently varies from scientific dating. It's perhaps more surprising that the
dating is as close as it is.

For a number of decades, the Ytziyah has been associated with the Santorini (Thera) eruption,
the association of which I became aware in the 1970s, and enjoys increasing traction among
scholars. At first, archeological dating swayed scholars toward a dating of the eruption in the
B.C.E. mid-15th century. Of late, however, 14C dating, corroborated with other scientific dating,
has pinpointed the dating of this eruption to within a half-dozen years of B.C.E. 1625. Thus, the
dating of the Ytziyah must be moved, from Manetho (archeological) dating, earlier to match the
more correct dating of the eruption. And that means that everything else in Biblical chronology
must move accordingly. And the seemingly intractable "High Dating / Low Dating" gap resolves.
(See spreadsheet internally compatible "Chronology of the "Big " ;" www.netzarim.co.il >
Mall > Netzarim Shop > epapers.)

As a result, an altar dated as reported here to the late B.C.E. 13th century (by Manetho or
scientists???) would match up not to Yehoshua (ca. B.C.E. 1620 and subsequent) but, rather, to
the generation of or near Shopheit #6, Avi-Melekh Ben-Yrubbaal (Shophtim 9) -- which would
suggest it may be the mentioned Beit-Millo or temple of Baal-Brit.