Biblical Chronology Research

The work

Biblical Chronology Research is a multi-disciplinary independent research program on the chronology of the second millennium BCE and the synchronization of textual and archaeological evidence for the Bronze Age. The current flagship work, The Sinai Convergence, argues that the biblical Exodus tradition is best located at approximately 1610–1606 BCE — in the immediate aftermath of the Minoan eruption of Thera and during the terminal collapse of the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty at Avaris (Tell el-Dab'a, Eastern Nile Delta).

The framework is anchored to Felix Höflmayer's high radiocarbon chronology for the MB/LB transition; to Sturt Manning's 2024 Bayesian refinement of Thera radiocarbon (1612–1602 BCE 1σ); to Hendrik Bruins and Johannes van der Plicht's 2025 Ahmose Gap; to Manfred Bietak's Tell el-Dab'a stratigraphy; to Drews's wind setdown model for the Yam Suph crossing; to Erez Ben-Yosef's Nomadic Complexity model for the wilderness period; and to the Jericho radiocarbon horizon (3306 ± 7 BP). Eight parts. Twenty-six thousand words. Every part carries explicit falsification criteria. The framework is offered as a working hypothesis to be tested, not a finished claim.

About the author

Balázs T. Kiss (also writing as Kiss Balázs Tibor) is an independent researcher based in Bavaria, Germany, working on Bronze Age chronology, biblical archaeology, and the synchronization of textual and archaeological evidence for the second millennium BCE.

He works without institutional affiliation, drawing on radiocarbon physics, Bayesian methods, stratigraphic geology, and biogeochemistry alongside the textual and archaeological tradition. The work is openly deposited under CC-BY-NC-ND on Zenodo to invite testing and critique. He is of Hungarian-Jewish heritage on his maternal line and Lutheran formation by upbringing; the work brackets the question of religious historicity and treats biblical traditions as historical sources to be critically evaluated, neither affirmed nor denied as theological claims.

"I find the historical core in the chaotic information mass."

Channels

• BCR SubstackLong-form essays on the framework
• Biblical Chronology ReportWeekly intelligence brief — evidence regardless of effect
• X / @BiblChronoRsrchDaily research notes and field updates
• ZenodoThe monograph (open access)
• ORCID0009-0001-2992-590X
• OSFOpen Science Framework deposit
• Academia.eduProfile and papers
• LinkedInProfessional profile
• THERA AIResearch assistant trained on the monograph

Citation

@misc{kiss2026sinai,
  author    = {Kiss, Balázs T.},
  title     = {The Sinai Convergence: A Multi-Disciplinary
               Case for the ~1610 BCE Exodus},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.20072469},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20072469},
  note      = {A work of the Biblical Chronology Research program}
}

Contact

For correspondence on the framework, the monograph, or related research questions: biblical.chronology.research@gmail.com