It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

Revised chronology

Velikovsky argued that the conventional chronology of the Near East and classical world based upon Egyptian Sothic dating and the king lists of Manetho was wholly flawed. One such document was the Ipuwer Papyrus which he felt reported events similar to several of the Biblical plagues.

1100–750 BC) and reconciling biblical history with mainstream archaeology and Egyptian chronology. S.