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To: Verginius Rufus

Read the article, it says that the language is dated to as long ago as 1800 BC, not Moses. The Exodus took place circa 1446 BC, when Moses was 80 years old, according to the Bible.


23 posted on 07/07/2025 7:15:23 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Ancesthntr
There is a lot of uncertainty about Biblical chronology. The familiar date of 4004 B.C. for the creation differs from the Jewish calculation (the Jewish year 5785 began last October, so their starting point is more than 200 years after Bishop Ussher's), and the Byzantine year is 7533 (based on their calculation of the date of the creation).

I Kings 6.1 may say that it was 480 years from the Exodus to the 4th year of the reign of King Solomon, but according to the genealogy at the end of the book of Ruth, David was in the fifth generation from Nahshon, who was the head of the tribe of Judah during the Exodus (see Numbers 1.7).

The figure of 480 may be 12 generations times 40 years per generation, but if so that's based on a different genealogy than in Ruth, unless you assume an average of 80 years per generation.

33 posted on 07/08/2025 1:38:27 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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