Raamses II to Thutmosis III: a helpful? Fixed? Period


---From the accession of Raamses II to the accession of Thutmosis III earlier, scholars are working with a 200 year period. Thus Kitchen, Krauss and Hornung.

---Just when you think it is fixed, it is not.

---Others are working with a 225 year period.

---Thutmosis III died exactly in the year biblical chronology recorded it to be. 1450 BC.

---Traditionally, scholars accepted that Raamses II became king in the 19th year of the Kassite Kadashman-Enlil of Babylon, namely 1304 or 1290 BC.

---Some calculated 1304, others 1290 BC.

---From these alternatives the 200 year period was calculated.

---J. A. Brinkman of Chicago University, lowered the Babylonian chronology and caused the date in his system to be 1279 BC.

---A certain M. Bierbrier supported this view.

---Brinkman has two dates for the 19th year of Kashman-Enlil namely a higher date as 1283 BC and a lower date as 1261 BC.

---If one accepts 1283 BC as the accession year, then 1304 BC is the year of the accession of Raamses II.

---So three dates are given for Raamses II: 1304 BC (high) or 1290 (middle) or 1279 BC (low).

---In the diagram below is given the various calculations regarding these two Pharaohs by scholars. Three dates listed supra are used.

---One can see two options for the length of the reigns namely 225 or 200.

---One can see subtracting 55 years to arrive at the date for the Exodus.

---We already know that the Bible mentioned 1450 BC as the date of the Exodus.

---Keep in mind that the scholars who calculated these various options, are not necessarily Bible readers. They may be agnostic, atheists or secular.

---One can see that there is one option for 200 years between the Pharaohs ending in 1450 BC for the Exodus.

---There is also one option for 225 years between the Pharaohs ending also in 1450 BC.

---Whether you want to follow truth by quantity of supporters or truth because it aligns perfectly with the Bible…is a case that I cannot force you to accept, but I will know why you are right or wrong on the issue. 

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