I think I always held out for the possibility of Akhenaten being the Pharaoh of Joseph, son of Jacob, converted to monotheism... but it always seemed far fetched in most chronologies.
As to to the trolls stealing the thread for pointless arguments, have them raise an army and conquer Asia and convert them to Christianity. I am a dedicated Christian and struggled with this 'BCE - CE' thing. We have the whole world (except Star Trek) using our calendar. If they want to say 'Common Era' and I wish to say 'Christian Era' who is any the worse off? They are using the Christian calendar.
But if the trolls want to start a new era of Crusades, let them raise a Holy Army and go and conquer the heathen and force them to convert... isn't that how Christ did it? Or was that Muhammed?
I think I always held out for the possibility of Akhenaten being the Pharaoh of Joseph, son of Jacob, converted to monotheism... but it always seemed far fetched in most chronologies.
There's a hack Egyptian writer (I've got the book, but, uh, I only have a vague notion of where it is, out in the garage) who claimed that various Israelite rulers of Israel were instead Egyptian pharaohs, and produced an imaginary causality loop in the process because, y'know, he didn't know what he was talking about. He also claimed Egyptians invented ballet, other stuff (maybe yodeling, I can't remember).
In later years Fomenko came along with his balderdash which put the Egyptian guy's chauvinistic horse-pucky to shame. My favorite off-the-rails whack job still has to be the guy who claimed the entire Roman Empire was a hoax. What about things like the coliseum and Hadrian's Wall? Built later to reinforce the hoax, I guess when everyone was out of town for a carnival and didn't realize there'd been a change when they got back.