About 5300 Years Ago There was a World Wide Flood? Iffy ...

Here is Syncellus, same kind of rebooting as previously between Ussher and St Jerome, and as a bonus, his tables involve lots of historical lore, I am omitting most of it, but not denying myself the dates of the seven kings of Rome:

I 3258 BC

2.142 pmc, + 31 800 years, 35058 BC

II 3086 BC

25.609 pmc, + 11 250 years, 14336 BC

III 2913 BC

40.195 pmc, + 7550 years, 10463 BC

2724 BC, Dispersion of Tongues

here comes before older layers of Göbekli Tepe.

A not further calibrated table according to Syncellus must therefore renounce on identifying the city of the Tower of Babel with Göbekli Tepe.

But it is not very difficult to recalibrate by shoving the following back a little.

IV 2741 BC

54.721 pmc, + 5000 years, 7741 BC

V 2568 BC

63.751 pmc, + 3700 years, 6268 BC

VI 2396 BC

72.689 pmc, + 2650 years, 5046 BC

VII 2224 BC

78.256 pmc, + 2050 years, 4274 BC

2189 BC

Birth of Abraham.

2089 BC

Birth of Isaac.

And beginnings of a unified Egypt (and Egypt existed 24 years before Isaac was born) are Narmer, whose raw carbon date is 3400 BC? Even if this is by Egyptologists adjusted to 3200 BC as beginning of Early Dynastic Egypt.

Here we are not yet even in 3501 BC.

Or suppose the raw carbon date was a Libby date ... 3400+1950=5350, 5350*1.03=5510.5, 5510-1950=3560.

If the raw carbon date of Cambridge halflife is 3560 BC, it is possible.

VIII 2051 BC

83.844 pmc, + 1450 years, 3501 BC

IX 1879 BC

87.316 pmc, + 1100 years, 2979 BC

X 1707 BC

90.665 pmc, + 810 years, 2517 BC

1685 BC

the Syncellus date for Exodus. Falls between 2517 and 2154 BC, Cambridge carbon dates, or 2387 and 2034 BC Libby dates.

Same thing for 1645 BC, the approximate date of fall of Jericho.

I think Kenyon would be happier with a higher than 100 pmc at this date, and taking Syncellus as giving the good date for fall of Jericho (still standing 1575).

But this omits that we are dealing with a rise in carbon levels.

If Kenyon's dates for Jericho are 1575 BC (see below), it would more probably be due to it being in 1470 BC (as St Jerome chronology suggests) and misdated as older.

XI 1534 BC

92.752 pmc, + 620 years, 2154 BC

1433 BC

Debora and Barac

1386 BC

Gideon

XII 1362 BC

94.992 pmc, + 430 years, 1792 BC

1282 BC

Iephtha

1211 BC

Samson

XIII 1190 BC

96.376 pmc, + 310 years, 1500 BC

1189 BC

Agamemnon becomes king of Mycenae and of Argives

1172 BC

Syncellus' date for taking of Troy.

1166 BC

Orestes becomes king of Mycenae and of Argives

1161 BC

Aeneas becomes king of Latins

1158 BC

... and three years later Ascanius follows him

1151 BC

Eli is Judge

1128 BC

Samuel is Judge

1112 BC

Syncellus places the election of Saul

1072 BC

King David

1032 BC

King Solomon

XIV 1017 BC

97.486 pmc, + 210 years, 1227 BC

992 BC

Roboam and Jeroboam (the editor takes exception to their rule starting same year).

944 BC / 938 BC

Omri of Israel

931 / 930 BC

Josaphath of Judah

930 / 926 BC

Achab of Israel

906 BC

Joram Judah and Israel (editor)

905 BC

Joram Judah (Syncellus himself)

903 BC

Joram Israel (Syncellus himself)

894 BC

Jehu (editor)

891 BC

Joas (editor) / Jehu (Syncellus himself)

888 BC

Joas (Syncellus himself)

XV 845 BC

98.188 pmc, + 150 years, 995 BC

800 BC

Macedon begins

825 BC

Syncellus poses the date when Medes take over after Assyrians.

770 BC

Athens ceases to be a monarchy and has "archontes decennes" (archons ruling ten years or archons ruling ten together per year?)

759 BC

Founding of Rome. Romulus.

754 BC

Achas of Judah

743 / 740 BC

Hosea of Israel

738 / 735 BC

Hezechias of Judah

721 BC

Numa Pompilius

680 BC

Tullius Hostilius.

XVI 672 BC

99.298 pmc, + 60 years, 732 BC

648 BC

Ancus Martius.

625 BC

Tarquinius Priscus

613 BC

Nabuchodonosor

588 BC

Servius Tullius

548 BC

Cyrus.

544 BC

Tarquinius Superbus.

520 BC

Rome has consuls.

515 BC

Egypt is conquered by Persia.

XVII 500 BC

100 pmc, no extra years, 500 BC

Here is a citation of Jericho for you:

A succession of settlements followed from 4500 BCE onward, the largest constructed in 2600 BCE.[20]

Jericho was continually occupied into the Middle Bronze Age; it was destroyed in the Late Bronze, after which it no longer served as an urban centre. The city was surrounded by extensive defensive walls strengthened with rectangular towers, and possessed an extensive cemetery with vertical shaft-tombs and underground burial chambers; the elaborate funeral offerings in some of these may reflect the emergence of local kings.[34]

During the Middle Bronze Age, Jericho was a small prominent city of the Canaan region, reaching its greatest Bronze Age extent in the period from 1700 to 1550 BCE. It seems to have reflected the greater urbanization in the area at that time, and has been linked to the rise of the Maryannu, a class of chariot-using aristocrats linked to the rise of the Mitannite state to the north. Kathleen Kenyon reported "...the Middle Bronze Age is perhaps the most prosperous in the whole history of Kna'an. ... The defenses ... belong to a fairly advanced date in that period" and there was "a massive stone revetment... part of a complex system" of defenses (pp. 213–218).[35] Bronze-Age Jericho fell in the 16th century at the end of the Middle Bronze Age, the calibrated carbon remains from its City-IV destruction layer dating to 1617–1530 BCE. Notably this carbon dating c. 1573 BCE confirmed the accuracy of the stratigraphical dating c. 1550 by Kenyon.

There was evidence of a small settlement in the Late Bronze Age (c.1400s BCE) on the site, but erosion and destruction from previous excavations have erased significant parts of this layer.

Unfortunately, Syncellus gives no date for Joseph in Egypt, that I could find in the tables, which would be with Djoser, carbon dated, like Narmer.

The most interesting line from Jacob to Syncellus is Levi, Caath, Amram, Moses.

I have omitted lots of material from Syncellus, though it is interesting. Some is a bit more bewildering than I can deal with, I am still no great knower of the enture kings of Judah and Israel.

On a totally other note, while I think Eusebius and St Jerome and Roman Martyrology are more correct than Syncellus, the editor of the work is actually, probably, a Catholic, from Germany, Niebuhr, and in 1829 it was published in Bonn, and involves a dedication by a Paris Dominican (I have seen their Church!) namely Jacques Goar OP to one Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France.

That was written in Rue St Honoré (a road where now the French Presidents reside) and this was under King Charles X, who conquered Algeria.

Hans Georg Lundahl
ut supra (vel infra)

Corrected correlation between a set of Syncellus dates and the crucial points, 4.IV.2017/HGL