David Rohl
David Rohl is an archeologist and historian specialising in ancient Egypt.His books A Test of Time (1995) and Legend propose a major revision of the conventional chronology of ancient Egypt, and less radical revisions of the chronologies of Israel and Mesopotamia. These allow him to identify many of the main characters in the Old Testament with people whose names appear in archeological finds.
The first of these books, A Test of Time, was a popular account of his (as yet unsubmitted) doctoral thesis, and explores possible links between archeology and the books of Exodus, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings and Chronicles. The sequel Legend extends this to Genesis. A Test of Time was published in the USA under the title Kings and Pharoahs.
These claims remain controversial, despite even the suggested changes to the Egyptian chronology being relatively mild compared to some others that have also been seriously suggested.
Rohl's Revised Chronology is the prime concern of the Institute for the Study of Interdisciplinary Studies (ISIS). Building upon the ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky, Rohl's chronology puts the dates on the Traditional Chronologies Based upon Egypt out by upto 300 years at points prior to the univerally accepted fixed date of 664BC for the sacking of Thebes by Asshurbanipal.
