A friend's published remembrance independently corroborates that the fringe historical claims are genuinely Tertius Chandler's, attributing them to named self-published books
Because Wikipedia's list of Chandler's fringe claims cites nothing, the question of whether the list is a genuine account of his work or an editorial fabrication turns on an independent source. One exists. Fred E. Foldvary — an economist (Santa Clara University, San Jose State, JFK University; senior editor of The Progress Report) who identifies himself as a personal friend of Chandler's and says he helped him publish some of his books — wrote a remembrance, published on the Georgist site cooperative-individualism.org, that independently lists substantially the same claims Wikipedia carries: that Zeus was a king in Moses' time, that Tubal of ancient Spain may have built Stonehenge, that Moses was Ikhnaton's vizier Ramose, and more. Foldvary attributes them to specific titled books — Godly Kings and Early Ethics (Chandler's view "that Zeus and other figures in Greek mythology were actual people") and Moses & the Golden Age (the Moses–Ikhnaton connection).
Written by someone who knew Chandler and had read his books, Foldvary's account
is the load-bearing evidence in this thread that the claims are genuinely
Chandler's own, not a misattribution. It does not settle register — sober
hypothesis versus speculative aside — because that is a property of Chandler's
sentences, and no independent read of his primary text was obtained. Per the
sourcing floor, a load-bearing historical/biographical claim escalates toward
Tier 1–2; Foldvary is a named secondary witness (Tier 3), not Chandler's own
words. The primary-text verification remains routed to
question-verify-chandler-pseudohistorian-attribution. This note stays
seedling. [unverified — best available is Tier-3 secondary corroboration, not primary text]
Source
“Zeus was a king in Moses' time … Tubal of ancient Spain may have built Stonehenge … Moses was Ikhnaton's vizier Ramose”
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