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=== The Thiele Camp === | === The Thiele Camp === | ||
This camp takes its name from [[Edwin R. Thiele]], an archaeologist and Biblical scholar who was one of a few key investigators (another was [[William A. Fulbright]]) to attempt to reconcile the king lists given in I and II Kings to the accepted secular translations of [[Assyria|Assyrian]] stone tablets and other records--the [[Assyrian chronology]]. Today, most evangelical scholars have joined the Thiele camp; Fulbright and other competitors of Thiele are regarded as less important. The Thiele camp makes some of the most controversial recommendations known to Biblical scholarship, and the dispute between the Thiele and Ussher camps is perhaps the most bitter. | This camp takes its name from [[Edwin R. Thiele]], an archaeologist and Biblical scholar who was one of a few key investigators (another was [[William A. Fulbright]]) to attempt to reconcile the king lists given in I and II Kings to the accepted secular translations of [[Assyria|Assyrian]] stone tablets and other records--the [[Assyrian chronology]]. Today, most evangelical scholars have joined the Thiele camp; Fulbright and other competitors of Thiele are regarded as less important. The Thiele camp makes some of the most controversial recommendations known to Biblical scholarship, and the dispute between the Thiele and Ussher camps is perhaps the most bitter. | ||
== Points of Agreement == | |||
The three camps do agree on a number of key facts: | |||
# The genealogy in the [[Bible]] from [[Adam]] to [[Noah]], the date of the [[Global Flood]] in relation to [[Creation]], and the further genealogy from [[Shem]] son of Noah to [[Terah]] father of [[Abraham]], make a continuous timeline that all three camps accept virtually without question. | |||
# The further genealogy from [[Abraham]] through [[Isaac]] and [[Jacob]] and his sons forms another unquestioned interval of time--though the date of the ''birth'' of Abraham is in dispute (see below). | |||
# The groundbreaking of the [[Temple of Jerusalem]] took place in the 480th year following the [[Exodus]] from [[Egypt]]. This simple statement ({{Bible ref|book=I_Kings|chap=6|verses=1}} ''does'' represent a point of dispute between these three camps on one hand, and secular archaeologists and historians on another. Specifically, the Thiele and Ussher camps are only forty-five years apart on the date of the Exodus, while some (though not all) secular investigators have tried to date the Exodus in 1290 BC, 201 years later than Ussher and 156 years later than Thiele. This would, if it could be shown, compress the period of the [[Judges]] greatly. But all three camps described above accept the statement in [[I Kings]], and thus this controversy is irrelevant to the dispute between and among them. | |||
== Key Points of Dispute == | == Key Points of Dispute == | ||
