The wicked reign of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel is summarized in the Bible as follows: 1 Kings 16:29-33 (RSV) In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of I offer various archaeological evidences of the time-period and various aspects and events regarding wicked King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, in the 9th c. B.C.
This exciting find was announced on the Bible History Daily website, in conjunction with the Biblical Archaeology Society: On May 23, 2012 the Israel A bulla (clay seal), from Bethlehem, dated to the 8th century B.C. was found in the City of David region of Jerusalem in 2012: the earliest certain extrabiblical evidence.
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“Conventional Bible chronology”?? Way back in 1910, the
Catholic Encyclopedia (“Job”), stated:
The author of the book is unknown, neither can the period in which it was written be exactly determined. . . . It is now universally and correctly held that the book is not earlier than the reign of Solomon [approximately 960-920 BC].
Protestant evangelical (“conservative”) scholar Gleason L. Archer, in his book,
A Survey of Old Testament Introduction (Chicago: Moody Press, 1964, gave his opinion:
Inasmuch as Job contains no references to historical events and reflects a non-Hebraic cultural background concerning which we possess little or no information, it is not easy to assign a probable date for the lifetime and career of Job. . . .