Are you referring to Jesus or Joe Ellis?
Both...!
Are you referring to Jesus or Joe Ellis?
As you stated, history is written by the victor with their own bias and interpretations. What is different about Fomenko? Why is his interpretation different or do his conclusions just happen to agree with your own internal biases?Traditionally history is written by the victor, whether it is a nation, a political group, a church or a Grand Lodge.
Anatoly Fomenko has spent 7 volumes rewriting all of Western history, based on his reading of the evidence. Five volumes have been translated into English. You can find them on the web if you search.
http://chronologia.org/en/
Having read the five volumes and much else, I wonder if the question of this thread has too many underlying assumptions to be useful.
None of that answers why his interpretation is more valid than anyone else's.>What is different about Fomenko?
Fomenko is an important mathematician who, with other academics, has gone back to the earliest evidence.
For example astronomical analysis of the stars and planets on the ceilings of about 30 ancient Egyptian tombs provides astonishing dates.
Henry Ford was well ahead of his time when he said: History is bunk.
it is tradtional that humans believe whatever makes them happy at the time
We underline, that new concept of chronology is based, mainly, on analysis of historical sources WITH THE METHODS OF MODERN MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS and vast COMPUTER CALCULATIONS.
Quite so. but who could read 7 large volumes of evidence and tests?
Rawlins points out further that Fomenko's statistical analysis got the wrong date for the Almagest because he took as constant Earth's obliquity when it is a variable that changes at a very slow, but known, rate.[68]
The Fomenko et al paper’s incredible date is based upon several lapses of procedure, most notably the authors’ mistaken use (when going from their Table 1 to Table 3) of the Catalog’s 900 AD obliquity-error (210 : cited at their p.225) as a constant in time. (Since the 900 AD obliquity was 23◦350 , this error corresponds to the zodiac-cataloger’s astrolabe-obliquity-setting = 23◦560 — a result already derived by DR & published in 1982 at eq.27 of PASP 94:359.)
Earth's obliquity oscillates between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees[2] on a 41,000-year cycle.
I'm rather indifferent either way. However it seems to be a rather bad mathematical mistake to not take into consideration that the Earth's obliquity is not a constant but a variable in time.if you are satisfied by a criticism of a criticism then you need do nothing more.
Fomenko is a mathematics professor with some 250 professional publications.
But there's no arguing that he did found that temple not made with hands...