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Thiele's assumptions above regarding this last point has been almost universally followed by those who have accepted his scholarship as offering the best solution to the chronological puzzle of the divided monarchies. Among these were Leslie McFall, whose 1991 ''Bibliotheca Sacra'' article established him as the chief living authority in developing further the Thiele tradition. However, in August 2008, McFall stated on [http://www.btinternet.com/~lmf12/ his Web site] that he was adopting a refinement to the regnal years of Solomon that showed that each kingdom fully used the system of the other kingdom when referring to their kings, instead of the half-measure assumed by Thiele.<ref>http://www.btinternet.com/~lmf12/HebrewKingsRevised.pdf</ref> A necessary consequence of this adjustment is that when Temple construction began in the spring of the fourth year of Solomon (1 Kings 6:1), the BC year was 967 instead of the 966 that is usually given by those who follow Thiele's chronology. The Exodus, 479 years earlier according to the Hebrew text of this same verse, would have been in Nisan of 1446 BC.

Thiele's assumptions above regarding this last point has been almost universally followed by those who have accepted his scholarship as offering the best solution to the chronological puzzle of the divided monarchies. Among these were Leslie McFall, whose 1991 ''Bibliotheca Sacra'' article established him as the chief living authority in developing further the Thiele tradition. However, in August 2008, McFall stated on [http://www.btinternet.com/~lmf12/ his Web site] that he was adopting a refinement to the regnal years of Solomon that showed that each kingdom fully used it's own chronological system (and not that of the other kingdom) when referring to their kings, instead of the half-measure assumed by Thiele.<ref>http://www.btinternet.com/~lmf12/HebrewKingsRevised.pdf</ref> A necessary consequence of this adjustment is that when Temple construction began in the spring of the fourth year of Solomon (1 Kings 6:1), the BC year was 967 instead of the 966 that is usually given by those who follow Thiele's chronology. The Exodus, 479 years earlier according to the Hebrew text of this same verse, would have been in Nisan of 1446 BC.

== Successes of Thiele's Biblical chronology in correcting secular chronology ==

== Successes of Thiele's Biblical chronology in correcting secular chronology ==