New Chronology (Rohl)
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The New Chronology is an alternative chronology of the ancient Near East developed by English Egyptologist David Rohl and other researchers beginning with A Test of Time: The Bible - from Myth to Hist
Comparison by David Rohl of (first line) the name Sysw (the hypocorism of Ramesses II) as it would have been written using 13th- to 10th-century Proto-Hebrew signs, and (second line) the biblical name Shyshk as it would have been written using 9th- to 7th-century Early Hebrew signs. The signs are taken from pottery inscriptions dating to those periods (namely the Lachish VI ostracon and the Izbet Sartah abcedary).
Shishak
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Shishak, also spelled Shishaq or Susac, was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a pharaoh of Egypt who sacked Jerusalem in the 10th century BC. He is usually identified with the pharaoh Shoshenq I.
New Chronology (Rohl)
…which he considers are the original foundations of the conventional chronology for the Egyptian New Kingdom: He asserts that the identification of "Shishaq [Shishak], King of Egypt" (1 Kings 14:25f; 2 Chronicles 12:2-9) with Shoshenq I, first proposed by Jean-François Champollion, is based on incorrect…
The Bubastite Portal at Karnak, depicting a list of city states conquered by Shoshenq I in his Near Eastern military campaigns. Jerusalem does not occur in the list.
The Bubastite Portal at Karnak, showing the cartouches of Shoshenq I.