Edwin Thiele

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Edwin R. Thiele (1895 - 1986), natural-born citizen of the United States, served as a missionary in China. He also earned renown as an archaeologist and as a professor of Old Testament studies. He is best known for his attempt to synchronize the King Lists of the Divided Kingdoms Northern and Southern with archeological records of the ancient Assyrian civilization.

Curriculum Vitae

• 1918: Bachelor of Arts degree (major: ancient languages) from Emmanuel Missionary College (since renamed to Andrews University), Chicago, Illinois, United States
• 1918-20: Home missionary secretary, East Michigan Conference
• 1920-32: missionary in China

  Signs of the Times Publishing House, Shanghai, China: editor and manager.

• 1937: Master of Arts in Archaeology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
• 1943: Doctor of Philosophy in Biblical Archaeology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
• 1963-5: Professor of Antiquity, Andrews University, Chicago, IL.

Major Publication

• The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, Chicago, IL, 1943 (his doctoral dissertation). Reprinted in 1983, 283 pages, unknown format. ISBN 0310360102

Death and Burial

Dr. Thiele died in St. Helena, California in 1986. He is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Berrien Springs, Michigan.

Dr. Thiele's major thesis

Thiele believed that the king lists in I and II Kings were inconsistent with one another, and either in error or simply misinterpreted in light of the published history of the Assyrians. He therefore sought to reconcile the chronology of the Divided Kingdoms with the chronology of the Assyrians. Most evangelical scholars have accepted his work without question, until Larry Pierce in 2003 published an English translation of The Annals of the World by James Ussher and launched a public challenge to Dr. Thiele's work, and the assumptions behind it.

Related References

• Wikipedia:Edwin_R._Thiele by Wikipedia
• List of Edwin R. Thiele's papers at Andrews University
• A Summary of Edwin Thiele's Work by Olive Tree Ministries

See Also

• Biblical chronology dispute
• The Annals of the World