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Ages in Chaos: A Reconstruction of Ancient History from the Exodus to King Akhnaton
by Velikovsky, Immanuel
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full black cloth. Map endpapers. xxiv, 350 pp., ads. Spine slightly tilted, bumped at ends. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket is price clipped, toned and worn to extremities, damp stained to foot of spine and rear cover, some sort tears and creasing. Taking as a starting point the simultaneity of physical catastrophes described in the book of Exodus and in Egyptian documents, Dr. Velikovsky reconstructs the political and cultural histories of the nations of the ancient world. His reconstruction places before the reader this question - Are six hundred years missing in Israel's history, or have six hundred ghost years crept into Egyptian history? Documents are collated for each generation over 1200 years, and the intriguing march over centuries presents itself as an exciting and fact-filled hunt after the error which caused the histories of the ancient world to become "ages in chaos," with happenings that never took place, kings that never reigned, and battles that were never fought.
Synopsis
Ages in Chaos is a book by the controversial writer Immanuel Velikovsky, first published by Doubleday in 1952, which put forward a major revision of the history of the Ancient Near East. Velikovsky had put forward his ideas briefly in Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History in 1945, but Ages in Chaos was his first full-length work on the subject. A second volume was due for publication shortly after this but was postponed.
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- Minotavros Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009236
- Title
- Ages in Chaos: A Reconstruction of Ancient History from the Exodus to King Akhnaton
- Author
- Velikovsky, Immanuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Ancient history, Egypt, Israel, Immanuel Velikovsky, history, Book of Exodus, King Akhnaton, biblical history
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- History;
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- Cloth
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