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Discover the authorship of the Bible and explore the accuracy of ancient Israelite history, including biblical chronologies from Creation to Exodus. Delve into the timeline discrepancies and historical authenticity of key events. Resources provided.
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Where we’re going Weeks 1 & 2: The history of a book: who wrote the Bible? * Weeks 3 & 4: The history of a people: Is what the Bible says about the early history of the ancient Israelites accurate? historicity: [his-tuh-ris-i-tee] nounhistorical authenticity.* We’ll return to the authorship of the bible towards the end of the term.
Chronology of the Bible * Chronology of events according to the Bible * Chronology of events according to what the Bible says about family-trees and the length of time people lived and ruled * Various biblical chronologies (eg -http://www.akhlah.com/jewish-traditions/timeline/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Bible) - they don’t agree with each other precisely.
Creation (Gen. 1 – 3) • 3760 BC - http://www.akhlah.com/jewish-traditions/timeline/
Noah and the Flood (Gen. 6 – 9) * 2704 BC - Noah born* 2102 – The Flood