"Shishak Sheshonk or Ramses 2?" Topic

"Shishak is the Egyptian king in the bible who Jeroboam fled to, and who raided Jerusalem in the reign of Rehoboam son of Solomon.

The conventional Egyptian chronology corresponds Shishak with Sheshonk I of the 22nd dynasty, and this the the one most important Egyptian-Biblical correspondences in their chronology. Alternative scholars including myself disupte the Shishak/Sheshonk match and we favour Shishak matching an earlier king, most likely Ramses 2. But the conventional chronologists continue to reject the alternative matches as equally or more possible and to still hold to their conventional correspondence. The only one major reason they continue to stick to this is the calculated "synchronism" counting back from the historical synchronism of Osorkhon 4 & Sargon 2 (supported by their dates for some other dynasties derived from various other dating methods of theirs). That is the only major reason, otherwise there is little evidence for the Shishak/Sheshonk match.

This article firstly shows how the matches of Shishak with Sheshonk are all weak (including the dating methods), and secondly shows Shishak could instead better match the likes of Ramses 2…"
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