Aspects of ancient Near Eastern chronology (c. 1600-700 BC)

• Main Author: FURLONG, PIERCE JAMES
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: chronology; chronological revision; ancient Near East; History; Egypt; Assyria; Babylonia; Mitanni/Hanigalbat; Hatti; Elam; Egyptian New Kingdom; Third Intermediate Period; High Priests of Amun; Shoshenq I; Manetho; relative chronology; absolute chronology; Bronze Age collapse; Dark Ages; El Amarna Letter 15; First Dynasty of Babylon; Kassites; Second Dynasty of Isin; Aramean invasions; historical realignment; Adad-nirari I/Tudhaliya II; Shalmaneser I/Shuppiluliuma I; Tukulti-Ninurta I/Murshili II; Tiglath-pileser I/Shuppiluliuma II; scientific dating; dendrochronology; radiocarbon dating; ice core analysis; dating controversies; LBA volcanic eruption on Thera/Santorini; Syro; Palestinian Iron Age; ‘high chronology’ versus ‘low chronology’ debate; methodology; Thomas Kuhn; Kuhnian epistemology; paradigm theory; Old Testament; biblical chronology; Exodus; Joshua; Judges; Samuel; Kings; Chronicles; chronological overlap; United Kingdom; Saul; David; Sea Peoples; High Priest Zadok; genealogy; divided monarchy; Shishak/Shoshenq identification; archaeology; Iron Age Canaan/Palestine stratigraphy; Babylon; ice core
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/39353

This document is formatted for double-sided printing, thus explaining the inclusion of some blank pages. © 2007 Dr. P.J. Furlong Contact email: [e-mail] The chronology of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Near East is currently a topic of intense scholarly debate. The conventional/or...