In the same 1960 work, Oedipus and Akhnaton, Velikovsky not only saw Akhenaten as the origin of Oedipus, but also identified him with a Pharaoh mentioned only in Herodotus, " Anysis of the city of the same name " — Akhenaten of Akhetaten.

Abell was also passionate about debunking pseudoscientific claims such as those by Immanuel Velikovsky.

The storm of controversy created by Velikovsky's publications may have helped revive the catastrophist movement in the second half of the 20th century ; however it is also held by some working in the field that progress has actually been retarded by the negative aspects of the so-called Velikovsky Affair.

( see also Scientists Confront Scientists Who Confront Velikovsky )

His defence of Immanuel Velikovsky in the September 1963 issue of American Behavioral Scientist ( republished in 1966 as The Velikovsky Affair ) undoubtedly also contributed to this.

" She was also deeply influenced by the works of Immanuel Velikovsky.

As part of his argument, Velikovsky uses the fact that Akhenaten viciously carried out a campaign to erase the name of his father, which he argues could have developed into Oedipus killing his father.

Velikovsky lived in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1924 to 1939, practising medicine in the fields of general practice, psychiatry and psychoanalysis ( which he had studied under Sigmund Freud's pupil Wilhelm Stekel in Vienna ).

1250 BCE ), Velikovsky had to revise or correct the conventional chronology.

This came to the attention of Shapley, who opposed the publication of the work, having been made familiar with Velikovsky's claims through the pamphlet Velikovsky had given him.

Velikovsky searched for common mention of events within literary records, and in the Ipuwer papyrus he believed he had found a contemporary Egyptian account of the Plagues of Egypt.

As noted above, Velikovsky had conceived the broad sweep of this material by the early 1940s.

By 1974, the controversy surrounding Velikovsky's work had permeated US society to the point where the American Association for the Advancement of Science felt obliged to address the situation, as they had previously done in relation to UFOs, and devoted a scientific session to Velikovsky, featuring ( among others ) Velikovsky himself and Professor Carl Sagan.

This was criticised by academic archaeologist William H. Stiebing Jr., who noted that such myths only developed in the 12th to the 14th centuries CE, over a millennium after Velikovsky claimed that the events had occurred, and that the Aztec society itself had not even developed by the 7th century BCE.

Although Hörbiger's theories have much in common with those of Immanuel Velikovsky ( parallels between the two were drawn by Martin Gardner in Chapter Three of his Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science ), the scientific community had a much calmer reaction to Hörbiger's theories than to Velikovsky's, and his publisher was never boycotted.

He wrote a book called In the Beginning ; in the book Velikovsky describes catastrophes which had occurred before those described in his first book, Worlds in Collision.

Velikovsky had put forward his ideas briefly in Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History in 1945, where he claimed that the history of the ancient Near East down to the time of Alexander the Great is garbled, but Ages in Chaos was his first full-length work on the subject.

In 1984 Egyptologist David Lorton produced a detailed critique of chapter 3 of Ages in Chaos, which identifies Hatshepsut with the Queen of Sheba, e. g. accusing Velikovsky of mistakes which he would have avoided if he had a basic knowledge of the languages of the ancient near east.

While James credits Velikovsky with " point the way to a solution by challenging Egyptian chronology ", he severely criticised the contents of Velikovsky's chronology as " disastrously extreme ", producing " a rash of new problems far more severe than those it hoped to solve " and claiming that " Velikovsky understood little of archaeology and nothing of stratigraphy.

James, another Glasgow delegate who went on to publish a work challenging the concept of a widespread dark age at the end of the Bronze Age, credited Velikovsky with " point the way to a solution by challenging Egyptian chronology ", but criticised Velikovsky's chronology as " disastrously extreme ", producing " a rash of new problems far more severe than those it hoped to solve " and noted that " Velikovsky understood little of archaeology and nothing of stratigraphy ".

* November 17 – Immanuel Velikovsky, Russian author and psychiatrist ( b. 1895 )

In 1960, Immanuel Velikovsky ( 1895 – 1979 ) published a book called Oedipus and Akhnaton which made a comparison between the stories of the legendary Greek figure, Oedipus, and the historic Egyptian King of Thebes, Akhnaton.

Another claim was made by Immanuel Velikovsky, who hypothesized an incestuous relationship with his mother, Tiye.

Similarly to earlier authors such as Immanuel Velikovsky and Erich von Däniken, Sitchin advocated hypotheses in which extraterrestrial events supposedly played a significant role in ancient human history.

According to former Immanuel Velikovsky assistant turned prolific critic, C. Leroy Ellenberger, " states that from an equal start, the Nefilim evolved on Nibiru 45 million years ahead of comparable development on Earth with its decidedly more favorable environment.

In the 1950s, Immanuel Velikovsky propounded catastrophism in several popular books.

Velikovsky used this to explain the biblical plagues of Egypt, the biblical reference to the " Sun standing still " for a day ( Joshua 10: 12 & 13, explained by changes in Earth's rotation ), and the sinking of Atlantis.

Immanuel Velikovsky () ( 17 November 1979 ) was a Russian-Jewish psychiatrist and independent scholar, best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, published in 1950.

In positioning Velikovsky among catastrophists including Hans Bellamy, Ignatius Donnelly, and Johann Gottlieb Radlof, the British astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier noted "... Velikovsky is not so much the first of the new catastrophists ...; he is the last in a line of traditional catastrophists going back to mediaeval times and probably earlier.

" Velikovsky argued that electromagnetic effects play an important role in celestial mechanics.

Nonetheless, his books often sold well and gained an enthusiastic support in lay circles, often fuelled by claims of unfair treatment for Velikovsky by orthodox academia.

The son of Shimon ( Simon Yehiel ) Velikovsky ( 1859 – 1937 ) and Beila Grodensky, he learned several languages as a child and was sent away to study at the Medvednikov Gymnasium in Moscow, where he performed well in Russian and mathematics.

Velikovsky then traveled in Europe and visited Palestine before briefly studying medicine at Montpellier in France and taking premedical courses at the University of Edinburgh.

Upon taking his medical degree, Velikovsky left Russia for Berlin.

There, with the financial support of his father, Velikovsky edited and published two volumes of scientific papers translated into Hebrew.

In 1923, Velikovsky married Elisheva Kramer, a young violinist.

In 1939, with the prospect of war looming, Velikovsky travelled with his family to New York, intending to spend a sabbatical year researching for his book Oedipus and Akhenaton.

To disprove Freud's claim and to prove the Exodus as such, Velikovsky sought evidence for the Exodus in Egyptian documents.

The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.

He also posited that when matter contained too little of the fluid it was " negatively " charged, and when it had an excess it was " positively " charged.

Radbruch's theories are posited against the positivist " pure legal tenets " represented by Hans Kelsen and, to some extent, also from Georg Jellinek.

Their ideology was also influenced by colonial French education, which posited Khmers as " Aryans among Asians ", who were morally superior to Chinese or Vietnamese.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya also posited that human reason could discern between ' great sins ' and good deeds.

Steiner also posited two different Jesus children involved in the Incarnation of the Christ: one child descended from Solomon, as described in the Gospel of Matthew ; the other child from Nathan, as described in the Gospel of Luke.

The name Ernest, it has been posited, might also have an ulterior meaning.

In addition to documenting about 2, 500 stars in his extensive star catalogue, Zhang also posited theories about the Moon and its relationship to the Sun ; specifically, he discussed the Moon's sphericity, its illumination by reflecting sunlight on one side and remaining dark on the other, and the nature of solar and lunar eclipses.

Most notably he makes several appearances in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and some have posited that the title, taken from the street ballad " Finnegan's Wake ", may also be a blend of " Finn again is awake ," referring to his eventual awakening to defend Ireland.

It is also close to that of Leibniz, who posited the necessity of " architectonic principles " to complete the system of mechanical laws.

New Wave Pioneers often praised Bresson and posited him as a prototype for or precursor to the movement, although it must be ceded that Bresson was neither as overtly experimental nor as outwardly political as the New Wave filmmakers, and also his religious views ( Catholicism and Jansenism ) would not be attractive to most of the filmmakers associated with the movement.

By the late 19th century and early 20th century, it was posited that the Indo-Europeans ( then generally also referred to as Aryans ) made up the highest branch of humanity because their civilization was the most technologically advanced.

It has also been posited that Gormenghast had its ancient roots in the Forbidden City of Peking.

It also posited the nation's relevance in the Space Age, during the global race for technology of the Cold War.

Some researchers have also posited this etymological relation may show the schiltron is directly descended from the Anglo-Saxon shield wall, and still others give evidence " schiltron " is a name derived from a Viking circular formation ( generally no less than a thousand fighters ) in extremely close formation, intended to present an enemy's cavalry charge with an " infinite " obstacle ( that is, a perimeter horses refuse to breach ).

Niklas Luhmann asserts " We can reduce ... positive law to a formula, that law is not only posited ( that is, selected ) through decision, but also is valid by the power of decision ( thus contingent and changeable ).

In his original 1988 article, Harris also posited that bitext represents how translators hold their source and target texts together in their mental working memories

Existence of Belobog is also posited by expression he doesn't see a white god recorded in Serbian language and Macedonian language, and shouting the way to the white god from Bulgarian language.

Considering the armament of two nations, Richardson posited an idealized system of equations whereby the rate of a nation's armament build-up is directly proportional to the amount of arms its rival has and also to the grievances felt toward the rival, and negatively proportional to the amount of arms it already has itself.

Valentinus ' Christology may have posited the existence of three redeeming beings, but Jesus while on Earth had a supernatural body which, for instance, " did not experience corruption " by defecating, according to Clement: there is also no mention of the account of Jesus's suffering in First Epistle of Peter, nor of any other, in any Valentinian text.

Spinoza also posited a novel view of the Torah ; he claimed that it was essentially a political constitution of the ancient state of Israel.

Mills also posited that Kula Shaker's music should follow a more spiritual and mystical direction in future, in line with his own growing interest in the philosophy of Gaudiya Vaishnavism.

The flip side of this, though, is that the Limit also takes its negative along with it back into the Something, this being the Other yet now as posited in the Something as that Something ’ s very own Determination.

It has also been posited that she may have been the great royal wife of her father, Akhenaten, after the possible death of her mother and co-regent of Akhenaten's immediate successor, Smenkhkare.