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==See also==
==See also==
*[[Date of the Exodus]]
*[[Date of the Exodus]]
==Recent Developments==
Recent developments for numbers of New Chronology advocates start quite a while back with a book by Peter James in collaboration with I. J. Thorpe, Nikos Kokkinos, Robert Morkot & John Frankish<ref>"Centuries of Darkness: A Challenge to the Conventional Chronology of Old World Archaeology". London: Jonathan Cape 1991; New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1993.</ref>. More than a hundred reviews praised or damned the authors </ref>Centuries of Darkness website [https://www.centuries.co.uk/reviews.htm]</ref>. They identified archeological dark ages in the lands surrounding Egypt: the Levant, Aegean, Nubia, and elsewhere. As archaeological dating of these lands is derived from Egyptian chronology, any wrong assumptions there result in the pervasive dark ages existing in these surrounding lands (and the minimalist perspective on biblical history). They correlate the biblical Shishak as Ramesses III (in distinction from Rohl's Ramesses II, the Orthodox Chronology's Sheshonk I, or Velikovsky's Thutmoses III).
The most outstanding result of their considerable subsequent work occurred in publishing their most recent book that reflects each side of the ongoing controversy<ref>Solomon and Shishak: Current Perspectives from Archaeology, Epigraphy, History and Chronology; Proceedings of the Third BICANE Colloquium held at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 26-27 March, 2011 (BAR International Series 2732), edited by P. James and P. G. van der Veen</ref>. Prominent archeologists Israel Finklestein and Silberman became, perhaps, unwilling allies when they revised downward the Levant archaeological dating starting with the Late Bronze Age IIB (from the orthodox chronology) through the Iron Age. However, Finklestein became a biblical minimalist with his partial revision in contrast to the COD maximalist friendly revisions<ref>"Hat die Bibel doch Recht?",Peter James and Peter van der Veen, KULTUR, 2015[https://www.centuries.co.uk/2015-hat-die-bibel.pdf]</ref>.
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