'King's Calendar'

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The 'King's Calendar'
The Secret of The Essenes of Qumran.

Author: Ross P DEECKE

If you have an interest in Ancient Near Eastern history, Biblical Chronology, Judaism, Archaeology, Theology, or Qumran or The Dead Sea Sect (Essenes),
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So what is the 'King's Calendar'?

The 'King's Calendar' is the name I have given to what I believe to be an 'artificial' calendar used by the biblical redactors, to encode ancient chronological records, in the form of chronological synchronisims, particularly in the books of 'King's' and 'Chronicles'.

We know that the biblical synchronisms do not work, but no one has been able to understand why. The proposition herein is that the true extent of Israelite history was concealed by manipulating the 364 day calendar of the Essenes. Basically, this calendar can be divided into 13 months of 4 weeks of 7 days. If one chooses to then represent one year as a period of 12 months of 4 weeks of 7 days (ie 336 days), one can effectively lengthen one's own history.

Suggested order of reading:The order in which Titles Appear

Contents:

Research Proposal: This document presents this hypothesis in the form of a research proposal, and appears in a fairly academic form. It provides all the necessary background information, as well as experimental samples of its application.In essence, the proposition is that the Biblical Chronological data has been encoded into an artificial calendar, referred to here as the 'King's Calendar'. Generally speaking, wherever the term 'year' appears in the biblical narratives, it refers to a period of 336 days.

The Starting Point: If the 'King's Calendar' is an artificial calendar, from what point in history did it commence? This section deals firstly with this issue, and then proceeds to larger associated issues, with a major emphasis upon the reign of Nebuchadrezzar. This section commences very slowly and simply, laying a foundation for the more complex issues that follow. It will take some patience to work through these issues.[Principally 606 BC - 586 BC / but down to 561 BC]

935BC - 848 BC Having established the Bona Fides of the 'King's Calendar' proposition, attention is turned to the biblical chronological data in relation to the 'Divided Monarchy' in israel from the time of Rehoboam (to Ahaziah) in Judah and Jeroboam (to Jehoram) in Israel. This is an historical chronological perspective aligning accepted ancient history with the 'King's Calendar'. It does however involve a major polemical disagreement with currently accepted history - The Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC. The Kurkh Stela of Shalmaneser indicates Ahab was present. The 'King's Calendar' indicates he had been dead for a decade.

The Battle of Qarqar: The battle of Qarqar in 853 BC, is an event archaeologically recorded to have involved King Ahab of Israel. The 'King's Calendar' presentation of the Biblical chronological data, insists that Ahab had been deceased for at least Ten (10) years at the time of this battle. This is a significant hindrance to the 'King's Calendar' hypothesis. This article provides support for the 'King's Calendar', through legal argument designed to undermine academic reliance upon the archaeological records.

Athaliah to Hezekiah: [848BC - 688 BC] This section continues the 'King's Calendar' chronological perspective of the Biblical data, from the time Jehu slew King Ahaziah of Judah and his cousin king Jehoram of Israel. It covers the nation of Israel down to the destruction of Samaria in 722 BC, and to the end of King Hezekiah's reign in Judah in 688 BC. It contains an important polemic that aligns the biblical chronological data internally (between Israel and Judah) and externally with known and accepted history of the Ancient Near East. That polemic is listed separately here as 'Uzziah to Hezekiah'.

Uzziah to Hezekiah: This is the polemic involved in the section entitled 'Athaliah to Hezekiah', and is a full version of that part of the Research Proposal dealing with the chronology for the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah.755 - 687 BC]. Not only does it finally reconcile the heretofore completely 'not understood' biblical chronological data for this period, but it challenges current academic understanding of certain events, as well as current secular and theological reliance upon certain biblical passages.

Manasseh to Josiah: This section follows on from 'Athaliah to Hezekiah', and covers the period from 587 BC to 606 BC. Historically, it fits between sections 'Uzziah to hezekiah' and 'The Starting Point'. It deals with Hezekiah's son Manasseh, and his son and grandson, Amon and Josiah. 'The starting Point', the introductory arguement to the 'King's Calendar', had as one of its foundational arguments, the chronological placement of Josiah's death. This section will bring us full circle to where we began.

Moses and the Exodus: Chronologically, this section runs from 1522 BC - 1411 BC., from the birth of Moses until his death. Modern academic opinion is that if 'the Exodus' occurred at all, it was a 13th Century B.C. event, not a 15th century one as the biblical narratives would seem to imply. This section is devoted to the 'King's Calendar' presentation of the biblical data, in conjunction with the archaeological record, and the record of Josephus. It examines in detail, the 18th Egyptian Dynasty, and Moses position within it. Josephus, who wrote nineteen hundred years ago, provides us with information, which, until this century, was previously unknown. Josephus' record plainly indicates that Moses was the adopted son of Queen Hatshepsut of the 18th Dynasty.

The Period of the Judges: (1411 BC to 1039 BC] This section takes us back centuries before the 'divided monarchy' which so far has occupied so much of this work. It examines the biblical material in the light of the 'King's Calendar', and attempts to reconstruct Israelite history, from the time of entry into Canaan, after the Exodus, down to the appointment of the first King of Israel, King Saul .

Merneptah's Stela: Chronologically, this section covers the period from 1038 BC to 972 BC, but is specifically focussed on the events of the year 1010 BC. An ancient Egyptian Stela which records a crushing defeat of Israel, at a period in history prior to the formation of Israel as a Nation. Some modern academics however, have begun to believe that our current dating for this Pharaoh (13th Century) and his dynasty, is in error (11th Century). The 'King's Calendar' offers support to these writers, by providing chronological adjustment to their calculations, and providing biblical arguments in support of same.

Josephus' Chronological Data: The data provided by Josephus, has been left many wondering what he was on when he quoted it. In this section, we examine, deconstruct, correct and reconstruct his data, via the 'King's Calendar'. Josephus was unaware that the data provided him was encoded. He also was reasonably ignorant of the events involved. His mixing of chronological data, and confusion over events, led to numerous errors. His data however, can be reconstructed, and demonstrated to have been based on originally correct information.

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Unless otherwise indicated, all material contained herein is original material, the copyright property of Ross P Deecke. All academic sources and references have been recognised where possible, and any omission is purely accidental and unintentional.

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