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====Sir Colin Humphreys FRS and Robert S White FRS====
[https://www.cis.org.uk/serve.php?filename=scb-7-2-humphreys-white.pdf Humphreys CJ and White RS (1995), "The Eruption of Santorini and the Date and Historicity of Joseph", Science and Christian Belief, vol 7, pp151-162.]
:"We suggest that a cataclysmic eruption Of of Santorini in the 17th century BCwas responsible for major famines in Egypt and the surrounding arearecorded in Old Testament writings in the account of Joseph, and we givearguments for the historicity of this account. Evidence of climaticdisturbances in the northern hemisphere from tree-ring widths and of ahuge acidity spike in ice cores from Greenland are consistent withwidespread climatic modification at this time. We suggest that the faminesoccurred during the period of the Hyksos pharaohs of the FifteenthDynasty ln Egypt, probably during the reign of King Khyan, thus providinga date for this pharaoh. and also for the old Testament patriarch Joseph. If our arguments are accepted, the eruption of Santorini, for which we takethe best date to be 1628 BC, provides an absolute chronological markerfor both ancient Egyptian and ancient Hebrew chronology."
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