Biblical Timeline

Voyager · Oct 9, 2007

Is there a definitive or more generally accepted answer to the question of how many years passed between the Biblical events of Creation and The Flood? Is there disagreement on the time span among Christians, Jews and Historians?

Voyager · Oct 9, 2007

Oops, guess I should have been more specific. That would be years between Adam and The Flood.

JoNightshade · Oct 9, 2007

I was just reading in my brand spaking new Archaeological bible that there are lots of different interpretations of the old testement dating system. For instance, I believe there's a geneology between Adam and Noah, and everyone's ages are listed, but the commentary on that was that the numbers were too perfect - ten or seven or something like that - to be ALL of the generations. Apparently this was the accepted method for recording royal geneologies at that period of time: carefully selecting a "perfect" number of notable individuals and omitting the rest. So the short answer is, no, there's no CERTAINTY. There are certainly a lot of guesses though.

Voyager · Oct 9, 2007

I remember hearing about that on the History Channel or something. Really interesting. I'm getting such wide varying numbers though, and I'd like to give a ballpark figure. It's one line in my WIP, and it's...well you know how that goes. Write forty pages without blinking and then get hung up for 12 hours on one sentence. But I've got between 1,056 years and 1,656. Is there a way to narrow it down? Like, would I get slain if I said, for the past 1,500 years, in reference to the time frame?

JoNightshade · Oct 9, 2007

Hold on, I think my KJV has a measurement in the side bar. I'll look.

Voyager · Oct 9, 2007

Thanks, Jo, you're a peach, darlin'

JoNightshade · Oct 9, 2007

Okay, KJV lists the whole Garden of Eden thing as being BC 4004, and God telling Noah to get into the ark at BC 2349. You do the math, it's too early for me.

Voyager · Oct 9, 2007

joetrain · Oct 9, 2007

you can't win whatever you put down. there's a lot of opinions.

i've also heard that the geneologies refered during the time in question note the years of notable rulers of whole cultures, leaving out the generations between rulers and the longevity of the cultures they oversaw.

but you can probably get away with the simplest answer, which jo's bible seems to reference

Voyager · Oct 9, 2007

I'm actually going for, "over 1,500 years." I hope that's general enough. Thanks, Joe

Ned George · Oct 12, 2007

An 18th century scholar, can't remember who, said the world was, at his time, exactly 6000 years old. I remember reading this in a history of G Britain. When I find his name, I'll post it. He was a bit quirky, but everyone believed him.

I also have a Biblical timeline a friend sent me. Here's the link:

http://www.bible-history.com/rome/RomeTimeline__Biblical_History.htm

LloydBrown · Oct 13, 2007

Bishop Ussher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology

Let me elaborate: Ussher's chronology is widely recognized and referenced. It's not, of course, consistent with archeology or geology or anything, but many Christians refer to it.

scarletpeaches · Oct 13, 2007

I once did a timeline from Adam's creation to the year of the flood, going by genealogies (sp?). I felt quite proud of myself when I realised it happened the year Methuselah died. Anyway, it was a good exercise in appreciating the Book of Genesis more, getting out the pen and paper and working it all out for myself.

kdnxdr · Nov 4, 2007

I was reading and thinking about some articles I read on the intense building program during Barak's term as Prime Minister of Israel (?). During that period, the Muslims were given a "open door" policy to excavate without inspection and to destroy much of what was significant Christian and Jewish historical evidences relative to their presence on the Temple Mount. The debris of these artifacts were irresponsibly dumped in the Kidron Valley with the perpetrators working around the clock to erase history and attempt to create a prejudiced and false history.

If a timeline is to be precise historically, more scrutiny and preservation of the actual facts must occur rather than the falsification of the record by malice.

Voyager · Nov 4, 2007

Lloyd, Scarlet, Ned and kdnxdr, I didn't see your posts earlier so I apologize for not thanking you before, but thanks for taking the time here.

As I said, I'm going to keep it as vague as possible, that way I don't step on too many toes. Thanks again.

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