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I like Rohl’s new chronological proposals.

While the conclusions may be debated, his book does a good job of explaining why “chronology” and the Greek Dark Ages are amateur Victorian notions, at best: http://www.amazon.com/Pharaohs-Kings-David-Rohl/dp/0609801309/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300060513&sr=8-1

Of course, if Santorini didn’t have a massive eruption after settlement, then the whole “we have a scientific explanation for the Plagues” goes out the window.

Rohl’s fine where he agrees with Velikovsky (the New Chronology grew out of the SIS Glasgow chronology, which fell apart; Peter James et al “Centuries of Darkness” chronology has the same source), beyond that, not so much. :’)

http://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm
http://www.varchive.org/ce/joseph.htm
http://www.varchive.org/ce/hammurabi.html

The New Chronology topic was an oldie, been deleted, but should still show up in the Wayback Machine:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3740e8e50733.htm

The later one is still up:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/725672/posts

Here’s the Wayback version of Rohl’s old website:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010821070955/http%3A//www.nunki.net/isis/isisconf2001wrapper.htm

Rohl was also in a prog-rock band in the 1970s, and a quick search should turn him up on MySpace, Facebook, or somewhere else on the web. Also, Cami McGraw is (or maybe was) running a New Chronology group over on Yahoo, good discussions (also a lot of dead-ends) over there.

Here are some other relevant ones:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2536818/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2483502/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1774343/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1181802/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2462926/posts