My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.

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.