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Various articles and letters demonstrating his changes here

Changes on chronology here

 

NB: Dr. Hoeh was assisted in his Compendium of World History research by Roy Schulz and Gunnar Freiberg. While it continued to bear Dr. Hoeh's name, Roy Schulz, who taught Western Civilization at Ambassador College, Pasadena for a time, was responsible for an increasing percentage of the research data. 

 

To assist those who would like to know a little more about Hoeh's Compendium, I quote the following letter from him to a WCG member and which I personally saw and copied (this is all verified by those that have spoken with Dr Hoeh over the years):

 

"Dear Dr Hoeh,

 

I heard recently that you have rewritten The Compendium of World History and that it is available in book stores. If this is so could you please let me have some information, so that I could purchase a copy.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

(dated 16 April 1982)"

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Dr Hoeh's response:

 

"Dear Mr (name withheld),

 

Your information is erroneous [re the availability in book stores - Craig]. I have edited some areas needing corrections - Egypt, Mesopotamia, Early Assyria, Hittites, archaeology, geology and the latter half of Exodus route (beginning after Sinai) [this would amend most of vol. I - Craig]. The Church at this moment has limited interest in understanding these matters so I am correcting only what is necessary for the Plain Truth, etc, as in Keith Stump's reference in the GN to the Israelites in slavery - Exodus 1443; Thutmose III beginning 1504; Flood 2325-2324; crossing Jordan 1403; Solomon 968-928.

 

Herman L. Hoeh"

 

NB: The above means that most of volume 1 of the Compendium had been rejected and he was in the process of revising it; but much of volume 2 remains valid. Note also that the Compendium went through a number of edits prior to his withdrawing it. For instance volume I carried copyright dates of 1963, 1963-65, 1966, 1967, 1969, and 1970, while volume II had copyright dates of 1963, 1966, and 1969. Each revision was followed by a long list of errata.

 

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 You will find some of this revised thinking in the following articles:

 

• Stump, K (1988) "Pharoahs of the time of the Exodus", Good News, March-April

• Stavrinides, K (1986) "The Home of Abraham", Good News, June-July

• Stump, K (1980) " The Stones Cry Out", Good News, Dec

• Stump, K (1982) " As Passover Approaches ... a New look at slavery in ancient Egypt",  Good News, March

• Hoeh, HL (1979) "The Revelations of Archaeology", Good News, April

• Hoeh, HL (1980) "A New look at Ezekiel's Prophecy on Tyre", Good News, Dec

• Hoeh, HL (1987) "A Sealed Prophecy", Good News, Nov-Dec

• See also comments by Hoeh contained in the 19 January 1986 Coworker Letter; some changes in the Crucifixion was not on Friday; some minor changes in The United States and Britain in Prophecy which he helped to edit.