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[an error occurred while processing this directive]Ancient and Medieval Chronology
Duplicates in the Bible
We now continue with a short description of the results of applying our methods to the antique and medieval chronological data. In doing so, duplicates traditionally regarded as different, and dated today to substantially different years, have been discovered unexpectedly.
We have applied the duplicate-recognition method (on the basis of the graphs of K(T^,T) and II(To,T)) to the Bible, namely the Old Testament from Genesis to Esther. The obtained results will be represented as a line (= chronicle) B in which duplicates (i.e., fragments of the Bible speaking of the same events, as follows from the verification described above of the frequency-duplication principle) have been denoted by identical symbols (letters). Thus, the line
B=TKTHTKTKTHTTPTCa,
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P
which means that the entire "historical part" of the Old Testament consists of several fragments, namely, T,K,H,Il,P,Ca, with some of them repeating several times, and placed differently in the Canon, thus yielding the above line B. In other words, many of the fragments (indicated in -B) of the Old Testament actually describe the same events, thus contradicting the traditional ideas according to which the different books of the Bible (except the First and Second Book of Samuel + the First and Second Book of Kings and the First and Second Book of the Chronicles) describe different events. Let us decode the symbols of the chronicle B. Indicating a symbol, we list the corresponding fragments of the Bible in brackets. Thus, B equals T (Genesis 1-3) K (Genesis 4-5) T (Genesis 6-8) H (Genesis 9-10) T (Genesis 11:1-9) K (Genesis 11:10-32) T (Genesis 12) K (Genesis 13-38) T (Genesis 39-50, Exodus) H/H/P (Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, The Book of Joshua and the Book of Judges 1-18) T (The Book of Judges 19-21) T (Ruth, the First and Second Books of Samuel, the First Book of Kings 1-11) P (the First Book of Kings 12-22, the Second Book of Kings 1-23) T (the Second Book of Kings 24) Ca (the Second Book of Kings 25, the Book of Ezra, the Book of Nehemiah, Esther).
Besides, the sequence TPTCa (at the end of the line B) was also described in the First and Second Book of the Chronicles. The two latter series of duplicates, which were known before, are unique. The other duplicates exhibited above were unknown earlier and were discovered on the matrix K{T]
of the biblical Chapters 1-170 as follows. Two earlier-known duplicate series, (namely, Chapters 98-137 and their duplicates, Chapters 138-167) imply that, along with the maxima filling the principal diagonal, there is another diagonal also composed of maxima and parallel to the principal in rows 98-137 (see Figs. 30(a), 30(b)). These diagonals are represented as black oblique segments. Rows 138-167 practically consist solely of zeroes.
The other duplicates could be discovered by approximately identical local peaks placed in the intersections of the corresponding rows and columns. The duplicates of the series T, as encountered in the Old Testament most frequently, are represented in Fig. 30a, b.
