Modern Chronology of the Mediterranean region is based solely on the info, that is allegedly contained in the Old Testament. Due to the old connections of Mediterranean nations with other regions (China, India, Russia) their Chronology is also based on the Old Testament. In this article I analyze a possibility to use the text of the Old Testament (in several languages) to be a solid source of information and prove, that for centuries myriads of apologists and critics piled up sets of a priory arguments, that prevent them from re-reading the text to find the New, non-Old-Testament Chronology.
"Rule Number 1": illiterate people
remember not more than 300 years of their history, ancestors, life, traditions.
Mitsraim (Mizraim) is not Egypt.
Biblical events took place in another region -- thus, probably, at another time?
Biblical Exodus resulted in the fugitives coming towards some place, called in the
Bible "Baal-Tsafon"; it is well-known and is situated not in Egypt, but in modern
Turkey, near ancient Antiochia, modern Antakia.
Most likely Mitsraim is biblical Gerar (Grar), which was situated somewhere around
that place.
They crossed not "Red Sea," but a mountain river Orontes -- and only there the EASTERN
wind, described in the book of Exodus could help Hebrews, sending water to the necessary
direction.
There are practically no traces of Egypt or its culture in the Bible; no Nile, pyramids,
even the race was most probably different (Egyptians, as soon as we can judge by
the preserved pictures, had dark skin, whereas modern Hebrews are no doubt white...)
To some extent the very reason of misunderstandings in interpreting biblical data
as the real CHRONOLOGY data is in the mixture of the Mundane History with the Terrestrial
History: we traditionally interpret everything in the Bible as the scientific source,
which was never intended to be!
This reference to geography is not a mere unnecessary reference for the sake of
reference; only it allows us to read the text of the Old Testament without a bias.
Pinpointing the events to the proper spots on the map allows us to notice things
that simply could not have happened either at that spot or at that time (e. g.,
the Old Testament says, that Moses, having defeated Egyptian king, brought his men
to Palestine -- and we do not bother to look on the map: according to the ORTHODOX
historical templates Palestine belonged to Egypt at that time! Thus, either it happened
at another time, or in another place...
Moreover, it is geography, that returns us back to the language: which language
spoke Abraham? And which language spoke AND wrote Moses?
If the Old Testament is a solid foundation of the world chronology, then we need
to decide: which exactly Old Testament constitutes that foundation?
As there are several DIFFERENT versions of it:
Tanah (Jewish Bible)
Septuagint (Greek Bible, LXX)
Samaritan Bible
When we start comparing them from the point of view of deciphering necessary chronological
information, we notice strange things: they describe the historical events in an
absolutely different ways! [For instance, their information, relating to the life
of the Patriarchs results is hundreds of years discrepancy: if we use Tanah, the
first Temple was burnt in 182/182 BC, whereas according to the LXX it happened in
760 BC. But: though we use dates from Tanah in King James Version of the Bible,
we state, that the Temple was burnt in 760 BC!]
Thus we have to deal again with the history of versions of the Bible plus with the
language it was written in.
This brings us the difficult question: when, where and how the modern alphabet appeared?
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