The 'King's Calendar': The Secret of Qumran By R.P. BenDedek

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INTRODUCTION: The King's Calendar.

CONCISE INTRODUCTION:
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The 'King's Calendar' represents 10 years of research into Biblical Synchronous Chronology.

Bible Chronology for the Divided Kingdom of Israel presents itself to be synchronous, but appears not to be, and as a matter of fact, the time frame that it presents exceeds that which is historically available.

Briefly, the 'King's Calendar' presents the Chronology of the Bible for the Divided kingdom, as measured in years of 336 days, consisting of twelve months (12) by four (4) weeks, each of seven (7) days.

It is the hypothesis of this research that the Jubilee Calendar of the Essenes which measures 364 days per year, was artificially divided into thirteen months (13) of four (4) weeks of seven (7) days, with the thirteenth month being 'carried over' so to speak, so that every twelve (12) solar years, an extra year (13th) is created. By this process, Jewish history was extended.

What appears in this book, is the mathematical demonstration of the effectiveness of using this type of calculation. The 'alleged' Biblical Synchronisms do from this perspective, actually synchronise.

Two academic complaints laid against the 'King's Calendar' at this point in time, maintain that no proof has been offered to demonstrate that it was in fact the Dead Sea Sect (Essenes, Proto-Essenes, Hasidim, or whatever name you attach) that created this calendar, or that they inserted it into their history.

That however is NOT THE PURPOSE of this book. This book demonstrates the effectiveness of using a 336 day period for each 'YEAR' mentioned in Scripture.

What 'IS' demonstrated, is that the Synchronous Chronology of the Divided Kingdom, as presented in the Bible, is correct. We simply have never been able to see it before. Note also, that in the process, the Chronology of Josephus, which up till now has also been considered to be completely unreliable, has been demonstrated to be both understandable, and reliable.

This Book opens with a brief discussion of the Dead Sea Sect, Qumran, Scriptural Transmission, The Essenes and the Teacher of Righteousness ONIAS III as an introduction to Chapters Two and Three, The Biblical Apologetics for this work.

Religious and Secular Academics, have been chasing their tails for over a century without getting any closer to 'solving' anything about Biblical Chronology. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that the problem has been solved.

Here it is! It is Mathematical, it is demonstrable, it aligns with history, it answers lots of niggling questions, and finally, it gives the average person some reliable understanding of the historicity of the Bible.

Note however, that Chapters Two and Three are very difficult chapters, since they are apologetic in nature. Regular readers should first read Chapters One and Four before attempting the others. They should also look at Appendices 5 and 13, where they might see both the results of this work and the Scriptural references used.

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Table of Contents

Part One

Chapter One................The Dead Sea Scrolls

Chapter Two................The Starting Point

Chapter Three.............Jehoiakim 606 BCE. to 596 BCE.

Chapter Four...............From the Death of Josiah to the Fall of Jerusalem

Epilogue Part One........Introduction to Part Two.

Part Two

Chapter Five..............936 BCE. to 883 BCE. [Available in the full version]

Chapter Six................Ahab to Jehu.
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Chapter Seven...........The Battle of Qarqar: 853 BCE.
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Chapter Eight.............Jehoshaphat to Ahaziah & Ahab to Jehoram: 883 BCE to 849 BCE.
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Chapter Nine..............883 BCE. to 756 BCE. The Ancient Near East. [Available in the full version]

Chapter Ten...............849 BCE to 756 BCE Athaliah to Uzziah & Jehu to Jeroboam II.
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Chapter Eleven...........756 BCE. to 701 BCE. Uzziah to Hezekiah (Apologetic).
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Chapter Twelve..........756 BCE. to 701 BCE. Uzziah to Hezekiah (Narrative). [Available in the full version]

Chapter Thirteen........Manasseh to Zedekiah 687 BCE. to 586 BCE. [Available in the full version]

Epilogue Part Two......Introduction to Part Three. [Available in the full version]

Part Three

Chapter Fourteen......Abraham to Moses. [Available in the full version]

Chapter Fifteen..........Polemical introduction to Moses. [Available in the full version]

Chapter Sixteen.........Moses and the Exodus. [Available in the full version]

Chapter Seventeen....Period of the Judges. [Available in the full version]

Chapter Eighteen.......Pharaoh Merneptah. [Available in the full version]

Chapter Nineteen .....Saul to Solomon. [Available in the full version]

Epilogue Part Three...Introduction to Part Four. [Available in the full version]

Part Four

Chapter Twenty.....................Josephus.
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Chapter Twenty-One..............The Prophetic Seventy Years of Jeremiah. [Available in the full version]

Chapter Twenty-Two..............Ezekiel. [Available in the full version]

Chapter Twenty-Three............Daniel. [Available in the full version]

Chapter Twenty-Four..............Epilogue. [Available in the full version]

Appendices

1. Bibliography

2. Research Proposal

3. Research Proposal Calendar 586 BCE to 33 BCE

4. Two Solar Year Time Line Charts.

5. 'King's Calendar' Synchronous Chronological Reconstruction Chart 936 BCE - 586 BCE

6. Nebuchadrezzar's 42 year Reign & Babylonian Chronicles: 18th year of Nabopolassar to 2nd of Nebuchadrezzar

7. 'Kings Calendar' : Time Line Chart of the Patriarchs 936 BCE to 1940 BCE [Available in the full version]

8. Time Line Chart of the Judges [Available in the full version]

9. Deductive Reasoning. [Available in the full version]

10. Methodology for the Generation of The 'King's Calendar'. [Available in the full version]

11. 'King's Calendar' : 586 BCE to 936 BCE. [Available in the full version]

12. Chronologies of Josephus 104 BCE to 1940 BCE.
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13. Synchronous Scriptural References.

14. Current Chronology of Assyrian and Babylonian Kings. [Available in the full version]

15. 430 year Sojourn. [Available in the full version]

16. Experiment in Daniel. [Available in the full version]

17. From the Flood to Moses. [Available in the full version]

18. New Egyptian Chronology. [Available in the full version]

19. Justification for 17th April 586 BCE. [Available in the full version]

Acknowledgements

Assumptions and Limitations