The Bubastite Portal — Shoshenq I's campaign in Canaan
An Egyptian campaign into Canaan at roughly the biblical date is recorded by the pharaoh himself, on a temple wall still standing.
UmstrittenInschriftc. 925 BC
A triumphal relief of the pharaoh Shoshenq I listing towns taken in a campaign through Canaan, including sites in the Negev and the northern valleys. The Bible records a pharaoh named Shishak invading in the fifth year of Rehoboam and stripping the temple treasury.
A list of more than 150 captured place-names, among them Megiddo, Taanach, Beth-Shean and Gibeon.
- Gefunden
- Temple of Amun, Karnak, Egypt — Recorded by nineteenth-century Egyptologists in situ
- Heute in
- In place at Karnak
- Sprache
- Egyptian (hieroglyphic)
- Wie es zu uns kam
- Ausgegraben oder noch dort stehend, wo es errichtet wurde.
Was er zeigt
The identification of Shoshenq I with the biblical Shishak is the mainstream view but not unanimous, and Jerusalem does not appear in the surviving, damaged list — so the campaign is attested while its biblical detail is not.
Wie Historiker es nutzen
A key synchronism between Egyptian and Levantine chronology, used in secular scholarship to date Iron Age destruction layers — while remaining a live debate.
In der Schrift
Verbunden mit
Quellen
- Bubastite Portal — overview and bibliography
- Kitchen, The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC), 3rd ed.
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