My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

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.