B) Material Culture: 1. The Baltic region had a diversity of food resources, including fish, waterfowl, seal, and larger mammals such as reindeer. Migratory...
Before proceeding with the review, we should give our own (tentative) chart of the relation of Assyrian kings, starting with Eriba Adad 1 down to Shalmaneser...
2. In the Norwegian area, the basic technology involved flint, or flint-like materials, though individual regions varied. Blades were used for projectiles,...
Vern, You don't necessarily have to go to so much trouble to write review, you could perhaps just do a summary chart/table/diagram like I post below. We can...
... Sean, Your advice is a little odd since most of what I write about chronology contains charts. In the files area you can click on to the Iron 2 chart, and...
... Date: Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:29 pm ((PDT)) ... contains charts. In the files area you can click on to the Iron 2 chart, and in the Assyria directory...
... revisionist ... for all of ... Hi Brad, I usually just have it all in my head, but if someone wants to do a cross-comparison, that would be a benefit to...
Hi Vern, Very nice review of this large book. You are fleshing it out quite well and it is going to be the best review probably anywhere for this title. Bergen...
... Much appreciated Bergen, although I'm not so sure mine will end up being the best review. I'll settle for adequate at this point, given the complexity of...
3. In southern Scandinavia Mesolithic material culture was used for both practical purposes and for status. It begins with the Maglemose, then goes through...
Greetings, Balaam is the famous Bible character whose 'dumb ass' (2 Peter 2:15,16) spoke to him, warning him of his impending death, should he continue on his...
I don't think Baalam was a bad guy, rather he seems to have had some bad PR (from some people who had been mis-behaving and needed a scapegoat.) The passage...
Baalam was apparently an inconsistent person, he went about looking for power stones, and his name was eponymos to a false god not to Yahweh. So apparently he...
I think the issue about the Baalam inscription, is not what he or anyone has to say in the inscription, but rather, that the inscription and something about...
My reading on this, is that Baalam should have sent the messengers away without letting them spend the night. He already knew God's will, but was hoping God...
Mary Christine, You and I both have mis-named Balaam. I first caught my mistake when I typed Baalam into Strong's concordance online. No hits! His name,...
Hello Mary, It would be very kewl is we, here at 'ancient chronology' could come up with a list of archeological evidence which supports scripture. You wrote: ...
Greetings Mar, ... away without letting them spend the night. He already knew God's will, but was hoping God would change his mind, even though he told the...
Interesting take, BTW, Mar is a title, not the name, so just Michael will do. ... From: zoe_lithoi <zoe_lithoi@...> Subject: [ancient_chronology] Re:...
_Numbers 24:1_ (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=4&chapter=24&verse=1&version=9&context=verse) KJV And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD...
Hi all, I think this discussion needs some scholarship behind it. I don't see much quoting of historians or archaeologists or biblical experts. It would...
All, I recommend the following article about Balaam and how various scholars down through the ages have interpreted him. The Story of Balaam - The Scriptural...
Chapter 1, The Imperial Hittites and their Neighbours. In this chapter Newgrosh describes the conventional chronology for Late Bronze Age "Hittite" history....
Newgrosh goes on to discuss CTH 76 (the treaty between Muwatalli 2 and Alakshandu) and compares it with other Hittite texts, especially KUB XXIII 102. The...
Hi all, I have a new blog at: http://vernerable.wordpress.com All my New Courville essays have been posted under the "Papers" section. I'll be shutting down ...
Greetings everyone, I'ld like to present 2 archeological cases where carbon dating methods favor 'high chronology'... though not without controversy. The 2...