DATA SCIENTIST'S NEW TIMELINE FOR OLD T
(Much based on prior work of Yale's Weiss/Hayes and Harvard's Stager, Princeton's Weinstein, Hebrew U's Finkelstein/Maier, Rabbi Dr. Zucker, Prof. Rendsburg, and others)
Lunar Accounting pre-Deluge, then Counting Sh-N-H Biannually in Upper Mesopotamia, bonus after 120, 1:1 after Torah
SYRO-TURKIC WINTER/SPRING PLANTING CYCLES MAR-APR AND OCT-DEC: 2x/12mo, 2 SHANIM:1 YEAR
NINEVITE-V PERIOD ENDS ON KHABUR/HABOR, c. 2600BCE
FOUNDING OF ASSUR, c. 2600BCE
DEFENSIVE WALL AT URKESH ON KHABUR/HABOR, c. 2600BCE
DEFENSIVE WALL AT TELL LEILAN ON KHABUR/HABOR, c. 2600BCE
E-SEMITIC KISHITE KINGDOM OF NAGAR/NAWAR ON KHABUR/HABOR AT TELL BRAK, c. 2600BCE
E-SEMITIC/KISHITE MARI ABANDONED, c. 2550BCE
AMORITES APPEAR IN SUMERIAN RECORDS, c. 2500BCE
AMORITE STORM GOD HADAD/HADDA ATTESTED IN EBLA AFTER KISH CIV, c. 2500BCE
E-SEMITIC/KISHITE EBLA, c. 2500BCE
NW-SEMITIC HARRAN FOUNDED ON BA'AL-IKH RIVER, c. 2500BCE
NW-SEMITIC AMORITE AND E-SEMITIC EBLAITE, JOIN E-SEMITIC AKKADIAN, c. 2400BCE
HADAD'S HEPAT/EVE(?) WORSHIPED IN E-SEMITIC EBLA DURING IRKAB-DAMU, 2340BCE
E-SEMITIC SARGONIC/AKKADIAN EMPIRE, 2334-2154BCE
NW-SEMITIC AMORITE/MAR-TU TRIBES DESTROY E-SEMITIC EBLA, 2250BCE
E-SEMITIC NARAM-SIN LOCATES NW-SEMITIC AMORITE TRIBES AT JEBEL-BISHRI, 2240BCE
TELL LEILAN/BRAK 4.2 ka BP DROUGHT EVENT IN KHABUR/HABOR AND BALIKH BASINS, c. 2200-1900BCE
VOLCANIC TEPHRA FALL PHASE I LAYER TELL LEILAN, c. 2200BCE
LAKE VAN FALLS 30-60m FROM DROUGHT, c. 2190BCE
E-SEMITIC SARGONIC/AKKADIAN DYNASTY ENDS, 2154BCE
2148 In the Beginning, ie, at the end of E-Semitic Mesopotamia, beginning of Mar-Tu/Amorite era, Pison/Gihon=Baalikh+upperEuphrates/Habor, Havilah=(H)Ebla(h)
2148 b. Adam=Haadam (human), first legendary W-Semite Balikh/Khabur River nomad to engage urban agriculturalists during historic regional drought and Karaca Dag activity, E-Semitic empire collapse
GUDEA OF NON-AMORITE, NON-ELAMITE, NON-SUMERIAN(?) LAGASH, r. 2144-2124BCE
2134 b. Cain, first recorded W-Semite Khabur River downmigrant, (unsuccessful) agriculturalist, and urbanist of note, Ab-el is theophoric
2129 b. Seth, fatherhoods will be 13.5-19, lifespans 74-81 until Noah
2112 b. Enos, first of three where Torah drops lead digit of fatherhood age, see Josephus
NEO-SUMERIAN THIRD DYNASTY OF UR, UR-III, 2112-2004BCE
2096 b. Cainan
NEO-SUMERIAN SHULGI-OF-UR-III, r. 2094-2047BCE
2082 b. Mahal-al-el
2068 b. Irad/Jared
2054 b. Enoch=Shekhna?, alive to comment on birth of Noah according to Gen Apocryphon, leaves Khabur tribes for Watchers (eugenic warrior-priest-scientists) in Balikh area, actually lives (unrecorded) to about 1979
NEO-SUMERIAN SHULGI STARTS AMURRU/MARDU WALL TO RESIST DISPLACED AMORITES, 2054BCE
AKKAD-GUTI-UR III COLLAPSE SYNCHRONIC WITH CLIMATE DISRUPTION IN AEGEAN, EGYPT, INDUS RVC, c. 2050BCE
AMORITES FOUND ALALAKH, 2050BCE
2040 b. Methus-el-ah
2024 b. Lamech, dies same year as Methuselah, 1959, indicating non-natural deaths
NEO-SUMERIAN SHU-SIN CONTINUES AMURRU/MARDU WALL TO RESIST DISPLACED AMORITES, 2034BCE
E-SEMITIC PUZUR-ASHUR-I FOUNDS FIRST ASSYRIAN STATE, 2025BCE
2009 b. No-ah, Lamech worried that Noah is the son of Watchers
AMORITE ISHBI-ERRA TAKES NEO-SUMERIAN ISIN, 2017BCE
NEO-SUMERIAN IBBI-SIN DIES, ENDING UR-III, 2004BCE
IE HITTITES BEGIN ABSORBING HATTIANS/HETHITES IN CENTRAL ANATOLIA, c. 2000BCE
AMORITE KINGDOM OF QATNA BEGINS, c. 2000BCE
AMORITE PALACE AT ALALAKH, c. 2000BCE
AMORITE TUTTUL WORSHIPING DAGAN UPSTREAM FROM MARI, c. 2000BCE
1973 b. Shem, not a child at Noah's "500"/12=42 if fathering after flood/lahar, likely born to Noah 36, latter family, will father Aram, which names proto-Arameans but location will be farther west
HURRIAN FIRST REFERENCE TO TESHUB (HADAD), 1966BCE
1959 Khabur River Lahar/Flood/kataklysmos, upmountain survivors of 20' deep pluvial Karaca Dag tephra mudflow, Mard-in Ark (kite pen, Arg=fortress in Persian, Mardin=fortress in Aramean/Kurdish, Ararat=Urartu in Hebrew=Kiziltepe "Armenian" hill)
1956 b. Arphaxad/Arpachsad, possibly naming Chesed/Kesed/Kasdim/Kasid, locating early northern Chaldeans
1938 b. Sal-ah, taken into Arabic as "prayer"
1923 b. Eber/Heber, eponymous progenitor of Hebrews, "to cross over", possibly Habiru
1906 b. Peleg=Balikh, relocates lineage in Western Rojava after Noah in Jazira
RESETTLEMENT OF TELL LEILAN AFTER 300YR ABANDONMENT, HEAVY RAIN SPELLS AMID LONG DROUGHT, c. 1900BCE
AMORITE FIRST THEOPHORIC HADAD SUFFIX APPEARS, IPIQ-ADAD-I, RULER OF ESHNUNNA c. 1900BCE
ELAMITE SUKKALMAH DYNASTY FOUNDED, 1900-1500BCE
AMORITE DYNASTY OF BABYLON FOUNDED BY SUMU-ABUM, 1894BCE
1891 b. Reu/Ragau
1875 b. Serug, shorter lifespans from Noah to Terah 53-61 probably related to lingering tephra toxins (see also Jacob's descendants in Avaris living to 55-65)
AMORITE SECOND THEOPHORIC HADAD SUFFIX APPEARS, NUR-ADAD, RULER OF LARSA, c. 1868BCE
1860 b. Nahor-I, identifiably Chaldean (astronomy-savvy NW Ahlamu nomads), from whose land and peoples Terah will soon self-exile
PROTO-CANAANITE/SINAITIC INSCRIPTIONS, c. 1850BCE
1845 b. Ter-ah, dies shortly after son Haran dies young 1792?, indicating foul play, see Josephus
IE HITTITES ATTACK KANESH/NESHA/KULTEPE IN CENTRAL ANATOLIA, 1833BCE
AMORITES/CANAANITES BEGIN IMMIGRATING INTO ASIATIC AVARIS ON NILE DELTA, c. 1830BCE
AMORITE/HURRIAN YAMHAD STATE (YAM/ARAM HADAD), HADAD/HALAB/ALEPPO, 1810-1517BCE
1810 b. Abram to Terah in latter family, at 35, 37.5 for Nahor, Haran earlier at 15-20
AMORITE HAMMURABI BORN IN BABYLON OLD KINGDOM, 1810BCE
AMORITE SHAMASH/SHAMSHI-ADAD-I FOUNDS KINGDOM OF UPPER MESOPOTAMIA, 1808BCE
AMORITE YAKBIM FOUNDS LOWER NILE 14TH DYNASTY AT AVARIS, 1805-1650BCE
1805 b. Sarai, possibly sister, but niece according to Josephus, to Haran at 20?
AMORITE CONQUEST OF URUK/ISIN, 1787-1784BCE
ELAMITE DEITY LAGAMAL ATTESTED IN MARI, SUSA, 1780BCE
AMORITE TEMPLE TO SET/CANAANITE BA'AL-HADAD IN AVARIS, c. 1780BCE
AMORITE SHAMSHI-ADAD-I DIES IN SHUBAT-ENLIL, KHABUR/HABOR RIVER BASIN, 1776BCE
1773 Abram and Sarai leave Sanliurfa/Harran at ages 37, 32 19?yrs after Terah dies
SHIFTING ALLIANCES OF ELAM WITH AMORITES: MARI, ASSUR, BABYLON, YAMHAD, ESHNUNNA, LARSA, c. 1770BCE
1769 Sarai rebuffs Qareh of Avaris at age 36, Koran, Genesis Apocryphon, Masoretic Text, Jubilees, Josephus all agree on this
1768 Abram defeats laden and spent expedition of Kudu-Zulush(-Lagamal) + Amorite kings, Sodom due East of Jericho on the Northern Plain at age 42
AMORITE ISHME-DAGAN-I-OF-ASSUR REIGN ENDS, 1765BCE
AMORITE YARIM-LIM-I-OF-YAMHAD, ALLIED WITH MARI AND ELAM, DIES, 1764BCE
AMORITE HAMMURABI-OF-BABYLON (AMMUR-ABI) TURNS ON AMORITE RIM-SIN-I-OF-LARSA, SON OF KUDUR-MABUK-(LAGAMER), 1763BCE
1767 b. Ishma-el, given an Elohist not Yahwist name, though his tribes maybe invent Yahweh
ELAMITE GENERAL KUNNAM'S EXPEDITION TO KHABUR/HABOR RIVER BASIN UNDER SIWE-PALAR-KHUPPAK-OF-ELAM, 1762BCE
AMORITE ZIMRI-LIM-OF-MARI FALLS TO HAMMURABI-OF-BABYLON, 1761BCE
AMORITE HAMMURABI-I-OF-YAMHAD EXTENDS TO KHABUR/HABOR RIVER, 1761BCE
1760 b. Isaac, "laughter will come": circumcision indicates tribal rejection of child sacrifice, perimenopausal Sara-i-ah is possessive -i-ah theophoric for Asherah (Yahweh cult) vs -i-el (Ba'al/Astarte)
AMORITE/HABIRU KHANA/HANAEANS EMERGE AT TERQA, 1760BCE
AMORITE HAMMURABI-OF-BABYLON COMPOSES LEGAL CODE, 1755-1750BCE
AMORITES HAMMURABI-I-OF-YAMHAD AND HAMMURABI-OF-BABYLON, IN DETENTE, BOTH DIE 1750BCE
PRE-HITTITE PITHANA CONQUERS KANESH/NESA, c. 1750BCE
1748 Binding of Isaac at 12.5, oblation substitution in Mlk-dm ritual, schism from Eshnunna-Ugarit-Amorite-Hurrian extant Baal-Hadad/Teshub sacrificial cult throughout Amorite Canaan and Mesopotamia
ELAMITE SIWE-PALAR-KHUPPAK DIES, 1745BCE
1730 b. Jacob as twin with Esau, whom he will mortally wound at 60, before immigration to Goshen at 62
1690 b. Levi, who exacts revenge on Schechem 10 years later, and b. Judah same year (Irish twin)
1685 b. Joseph to Jacob at 45, sold into slavery 8.5 years later
1673 b. Kehath/Caath/Kohath/Qehat to Levi at 17.5
1670 Joseph helps Salitis found Hyksos 15th Dynasty
1668 Jacob's extended family enters Goshen, Judah possibly 1667 or 1666 to make time for Tamar events
1657 b. Amram/Ambram, to Kehath at 16, grandson of Levi, with Jochebed "born on the same day" as late daughter of Levi at 33, will birth Moses
CANAANITE HYKSOS 15TH DYNASTY BEGINS, c. 1650BCE
FIRST IE HITTITE KING HATTUSILI-I ATTACKS YAMHAD'S ALLY ALALAKH, c. 1650BCE
1630 d. Joseph, ending favorable treatment of shepherd kings (1631-1625 Testaments: Sim[e]on, Reu-ben/bel, Jud-ah, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher (vs Asher-ah), Issac-har, and Levi pass at ages 60, 62, 60, 57, 62, 63, 62, 62, 62, 66)
SAKIR-HAR HYKSOS RULER, NAME MEANING MEMORY OF HADAD, TO 1590BCE
1625 b. Moses, under Sakir-Har of Avaris, Kenite Zippor-ah (Midian schism) will be instrumental in YHWH promotion
1605 Moses campaigns south of Thebes on behalf of Avaris, takes Nubian wife
IE HITTITE MURSILI-I SACKS YAHMHAD'S ALEPPO, TAKING HAMMURABI-III, c. 1600BCE
IE HITTITE MURSILI-I EJECTS AMORITES FROM BABYLON, TAKES MARDUK, 1595BCE
THERA ERUPTION AVG OF LATEST CARBON DATING, HELIOPOLIS SPARED BUT NOT AVARIS FROM WINDBORNE ASH CLOUD, 1585BCE
1585 Exodus from Hyksos Apepi in Avaris after impending famine and contumacy/defiance of first-born sacrifice edict after Thera pumice cloud fells northern livestock
1565 Jericho destruction City-IV carbon date
THEBAN SEQUENRE-TAO BEGINS CAMPAIGN AGAINST HYKSOS APEPI/APOPHIS BEREFT OF GOSHEN BUFFER, 1560BCE
CITADEL CONSTRUCTED IN AVARIS TO RESIST THEBAN KAMOSE, 1550BCE
CANAANITE HYKSOS EJECTED FROM GOSHEN BY AHMOSE I, 1552-1531BCE
LEVANTINE CAMPAIGNS OF AHMOSE I TO BREAK HYKSOS CITIES, 1548BCE
HURRIAN/IE MITTANI/NAHARIN STATE EXTENDS FROM TIGRIS TO ORONTES, c. 1500BCE
THUTMOSE-III CAMPAIGNS IN CANAAN/BATTLE OF MEGIDDO 1457BCE
973 First Temple start under Solomon, 612 years after Exodus from Avaris, 592 years after razing Jericho
CANAANITE WHEAT LONG PLANTING SEASON OCT-JAN: 1x/12mo, 1 SHANAH:1 YEAR
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