Talk:Bible chronology

message: On what basis is creation given at 1800 BC?  The Jewish date for creation is 3761 BC.  The Byzantine calendar said it was around 5500 BC, and Archbishop Ussher famously said 4004 BC. john k 16:00, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
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message: The years in the first part of Genesis (Adam to Noah) are all lunar months. Multiply by 19 and divide by 235 to get years. That knocks off nearly 2000 years from Usher and the Jewish date. The years after Noah have all been artificially inflated, octupled, quadrupled, doubled in that order to smoothen the passage from lunar months to regular calendar years, which do not start until the unified kingdom. If you plot the ages of the patriarchs when they begat their sons from Noah to Abraham you will see that the line slopes rather than being horizontal as it should be. 
Linear regression shows that all the patriarchs’ ages or reigns from Abraham to Saul are doubled. You can plot the dates of the Persian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Mittani and Egyptian kings against the biblical generations in which they are mentioned in the bible and you get a straight line, which slopes at 25 years per generation. See: http://www.enthymia.co.uk/myths/bible/EstablishChronology.htm
Arithmetic shows that the years of the Judges have all been quadrupled. This is the only way that the Judges will fit on the regression line at the time of Assur-Risilim and Tiglath-Pileser I who the bible both mentions and after the reign of Ramses II also named, and the only way the Judges arithmetic can be brought in line with Kings which says the Exodus occurred 440 “years” (LXX version) before the 4th year of Solomon. The 440 “years” is of course doubled. See: http://www.enthymia.co.uk/myths/bible/EstablishChornology.htm
--Argyrosargyrou 17:04, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
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message: I am editing the reignal years of the Hebrew kings based on the more precise dates of Albright and Thiele, as some of the dates used in this article are just plain wrong- for example, the Northern kingdom did not fall in 726 BC, it fell in 722 BC, an independently attested date based on synchronism with Assyrian chronology.  Likewise, 1000 BC is probably not the correct date for Solomon's temple- this is more likely the date for the ascension of David onto the throne, according to Albright.  Solomon's reign, according to William G. Dever, probably lasted from 970-930 BC, as the raid of Shishak (Shoshenq I) is dated in the Bible to five years after his death, and is established in Egyptian chronology at 925 BC.
I'll update the article with the relevant info from Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah, and I'll reference Dever's book for Solomon's reign.
--Rob117 00:48, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing dates based on Albright, Thiele, and Dever 

message: Hello all, I've edited the article so that the section on the monarchy period provides all (or almost all) known synchronisms with Assyrian and Babylonian sources - that is to say, our "hard knowledge" of Biblical chronology, based on the well-established Mesopotamian chronology, as opposed to the soft knowledge derived from internal synchronisms and date figures.  I have tried only to include information which is itself found in the Bible.  Thus, I say for 853 BC only that Assyrian records show that Ahab was King of Israel, not that he fought Shalmaneser III at Qarqar, simply because the Bible doesn't mention Qarqar, making Qarqar not obviously a part of Biblical chronology. john k 08:00, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
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message: This article is very lean on references to the text itself.  I would like to add the durations of various time periods as calculated from the text based on birth/death dates, etc (with references).  This doesn't provide dating per-se, but it provides additional source material for interested folks.  This information is quite lengthy.  I'll start adding it unless someone can point out a more appropriate place for this type of thing.
The article states "The Bible says that the Earth is billions of years old..."  Can you please reference where in the Bible it says this?--Physiofly 19:59, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding the time periods as calculated from the text 

message: This article needs a lot of work, and there's a somewhat duplicative article Biblical chronology... AnonMoos 19:23, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article needs a lot of work, duplicate