Tyre And Jerusalem

A major ancient event occurred and was recorded. We learn of the event by reading the records - those of us who are sufficiently interested in ancient history - but maybe the records are false?

Or - a time criminal changed the event but the Time Patrol ensured that it was misrecorded? In effect, the event changes but the records do not! Thus, the rest of the timeline remains the same.

If Tyre is bombed in 950 BC, then Solomon, lacking Hiram's support, will be unable either to hold his tribes together or to resist the Philistines and Yahweh will sink back into the "'...mutable pantheon.'" -Time Patrol, p. 308. The Patrol must protect Tyre but Epsilon Korten, director of Jerusalem Base, suggests that they should also:

"'...establish a strong standby - personnel, organization, plans - in Jerusalem, ready to minimize the effects there. The less that Solomon's kingdom suffers, the less powerful the change vortex will be. That should give us more chance of damping it out altogether.'" (pp. 308-309)

(Patrol members refer to causal, temporal and change vortices.)

Korten agrees that his proposal "'...is playing fast and loose with history,'" but replies that, "'...extreme situations call for extreme measures.'" (p. 309)

But is that not a bit too extreme? The Biblical record would have to avoid all reference to an exploded Tyre. Also, the physical evidence of the Tyrian catastrophe would surely outlast the Biblical period? If the Patrol is capable of faking that much history, then it can do just about anything.