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The Biblical Chronologist Vol 2 Num 5 The iblical B hronologist WHAT HAS BEEN IS REMOTE AND EXCEEDINGLY MYSTERIOUS. WHO CAN DISCOVER IT? C (Ecclesiastes 7:24) Volume 2, Number 5 September/October 1996 \Pharaohs and Kings" inform us that the author of Pharaohs and Kings A Biblical Quest? has made a new discovery which \reveals the true historical setting of the biblical epics". A new book about the chronology of the ancient The wording here is rather ambiguous. To the world in relation to the Bible has recently appeared conservative Christian, who believes the Bible is on the market. Pharaohs and Kings: A Biblical simply, historically true, it seems to say that the Quest1 is a well illustrated volume of 425 pages. It author will show that the Old Testament historical is not intended as a scholarly volume; its author, narratives are true, in contradiction to the skep- David Rohl, tells us plainly that it is \intended as tical scholar. But please note that this wording a `popular book' ".2 is equally acceptable to the liberal. The liberal The publisher has obviously aimed to capture a believes the Bible contains some kernel of histor- large number of conservative Christian sales. The ical truth, but that it is all encrusted about with thesis of the book|a major revision of ancient myth and unreliable tradition. To the liberal the chronology|is presented to the lay public as a new phrase, \the true historical setting", is a reference discovery which proves the Bible is true in the face not to Biblical historicity, but to the kernel of truth of scholarly skepticism. Unfortunately, having ex- for which he endlessly searches. And \the biblical amined the book over the course of several months, epics" are not the moving, majestic, true stories I ¯nd that it does no such thing, and that the per- from the past which God has preserved for our spective of the book is not conservative Christian. instruction in the Bible, but rather the supposed The front °ap of the dust cover of the book semi-mythological tales about the past found in states, the Old Testament. Such wording o®ers clear marketing advantages Ever since excavations in the Lands of |nobody gets o®ended, and everybody buys a the Bible began at the beginning of the copy. However, it also creates some confusion re- last century, biblical scholars have sys- garding the book's true perspective and purpose. tematically stripped out elements of the Unfortunately, it is not possible to shrug this o® narratives|the stories of Joseph, Moses, as a mere marketing technique on the part of the Joshua, Saul, David, and Solomon|and publisher. When we open the volume and begin to consigned them to the realms of myth read inside, we discover the author using the same and folklore. basic come-on and exhibiting the same duplicity of viewpoints. This is true enough. I hope you understand by now why the scholars who have done so are wrong. (If Rohl brings what is certainly the key issue to- you don't, please read my book and the previous day to the forefront in the second sentence of his 4 issues of this publication.3) The °ap goes on to introduction. He asks: 1David M. Rohl, Pharaohs and Kings: A Biblical Quest Simply put, is the early Old Testament (New York: Crown Publishers, 1995). Originally published in Great Britain as A Test of Time by Century Ltd. in 1995. of Biblical History from Abraham to Samuel, 2nd ed. (Loda 2David M. Rohl, Pharaohs and Kings: A Biblical Quest IL: Aardsma Research and Publishing, 1993). (New York: Crown Publishers, 1995), 39. 4David M. Rohl, Pharaohs and Kings: A Biblical Quest 3Gerald E. Aardsma, A New Approach to the Chronology (New York: Crown Publishers, 1995), 7. 1 2 The Biblical Chronologist Volume 2, Number 5 real history or just legend? reality but a complex, living response to the evi- dence of our own past."6 In other words, history, This question is phrased the way a conservative according to the author, is not what actually hap- Christian would ask it. For the conservative, it is pened in real time and space in the past; rather, an all or nothing issue whether the Old Testament history is the perception of the past we imagine is historically true. The conservative realizes that in our own heads. History is a \response" rather to convict the Bible of falsehood at any point, in- than a \reality". cluding most especially any point of historical fact, Such notions are diagnostic of relativism and is to destroy the doctrine of the divine inspiration theological liberalism|they are foreign to the of Scripture, since God cannot lie. And accompa- Bible and to conservative Christianity. Please nying the loss of inspiration will also be the loss of note, for example, that it makes an enormous dif- Biblical inerrency. The conservative Christian is ference to true Christianity whether Jesus' death well aware that an errant, man-made book which and resurrection are just a subjective, imagina- passes itself o® as a God-breathed book is hardly tive \response" to some misconstrued historical ev- an intelligent place to rest one's faith. So to the idence, or a simple reality, accomplished on our conservative, the issue is all or nothing. behalf outside Jerusalem two thousand years ago.7 The issue is quite di®erent with the liberal. He Conservative Christianity also regards the Old has already convinced himself that the Bible con- Testament historical narrative as simply true his- tains historical and other types of errors, and has tory. Rohl clearly regards it otherwise. Here is somehow reconciled his faith to this notion. (I a sample of Rohl's approach to Scripture. In the know of no logical way of doing so.) But since he early portion of 2 Samuel 10 we read about the regards Scripture as an admixture of truth and er- shameful treatment of David's ambassadors who ror, he would be expected to pose this question as, were sent to the court of Hanun, the Ammonite \Simply put, does the early Old Testament contain king. Verses 4 and 5 record: real history or just legend?" The way Rohl has, in fact, worded this introduc- So Hanun took David's servants and tory question rings conservative, not liberal. So it shaved o® half of their beards, and cut is with some surprise that we ¯nd him, one page o® their garments in the middle as far as later, using the following language (I have provided their hips, and sent them away. When 5 the italics for emphasis): they told it to David, he sent to meet Perhaps I should explain, therefore, how them, for the men were greatly humili- the writing of this book came about and ated. And the king said, \Stay at Jericho what it was that originally triggered o® until your beards grow, and then return." my quest to ¯nd a more promising syn- thesis between archaeology and the his- Rohl wishes to identify this account with some torical kernel of the stories contained in archaeological remains|speci¯cally, a \substan- the Bible. tial building" found on top of the mound of an- cient Jericho|to help in his e®ort to corroborate Now this \historical kernel" phrase is pure liberal his revised chronology of the ancient world. Rohl parlance, as discussed above. Clearly there is a feels these remains probably date (according to his confusing duplicity evident here. reconstruction of ancient chronology) to the reign But the smoke clears as we continue to read. of David. He further notes that the building seems According to the conservative Christian view to have been abandoned shortly after it was con- history is a simple, single reality|it is simply what structed. This ¯ts the Biblical account (after a happened in the past. The author of Pharaohs and fashion)|clearly David's ambassadors only stayed Kings, David Rohl, tells us something entirely dif- at Jericho temporarily. ferent. He says, \History is not a simple, single 6David M. Rohl, Pharaohs and Kings: A Biblical Quest 5David M. Rohl, Pharaohs and Kings: A Biblical Quest (New York: Crown Publishers, 1995), 39. (New York: Crown Publishers, 1995), 8. 7See, for example, 1 Corinthians 15:12{19. Volume 2, Number 5 The Biblical Chronologist 3 But if we assume the building was abandoned Biblical and archaeological data. shortly after it was built because David's ambas- When a subscriber and friend kindly sent me a sadors no longer needed it, this implies that it must copy of Rohl's book several months ago, I did pre- have been built specially for David's ambassadors. cisely what I have previously instructed you to do.9 But this doesn't ¯t the Biblical account very well| I was aware, from the letters I had received from clearly, the ambassadors' beards would have grown various subscribers, that an individual whom I had out again, removing their embarrassment and en- never previously heard of, David Rohl, was propos- abling them to return to the court of David, long ing a new chronology of ancient Egypt through a before the construction of a \substantial building" large, well illustrated book and accompanying tele- could possibly be completed. vision production. These letters had informed me How does Rohl get around this problem? He that Rohl claimed this new chronology harmonized does so by labeling this portion of Scripture a some elements of the Biblical narrative with the \strange folktale".8 history of ancient Egypt. I knew, in short, that It is necessary for Rohl to do this to preserve his Rohl was proposing a new harmonization of a por- desired match between this Biblical passage and tion of the Biblical and secular accounts of earth the archaeological remains at Jericho of course.
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