The absolute dating of the Iron Age is based on a solar eclipse together with calendrical continuity into the Roman era and thereafter. Correlating literary sources to the chronological framework poses few problems, especially since our continuous Biblical historiographic sources conform to epigraphic chronological evidence to an extraordinary extent. So two issues arise in the attempt to connect text to mound: what does the Biblical or epigraphic evidence imply for a particular, dated, period, and what does the archaeological horizon imply for its particular concatenation of occupations? Typically, attempts to correlate the archaeological to the historical record have been facile. The textual evidence must be taken critically—neither endorsed nor dismissed, but evaluated—before such a correlation can be suggested. How, then, do we correlate archaeological horizons with textual indices? Do the absolute correlations offer any control on the dating of archaeological horizons between them?