Timeline Of The Old Testament Essay

Determining the historical timeline of the Old Testament is meant to be an exercise for the purpose of proving theological accounts of the Old Testament, consequently, the purpose is not to prove any actual historical validity. For instance, the method used most commonly to determine the historical timeline of the Old Testament is first add the ages of the Patriarchs at the time of birth of their firstborn sons. Next, there are specific verses that gives information followed by adding together the lengths of the kings reigns during the time of Judges, the United Monarchy, the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah. According to many traditional biblical historians the Creation occurred, in 4000BC, with the Exodus from Egypt happening, around 1446BC, followed by the First Temple being constructed 480 later. Another 480 years pass before the temple is destroyed by the Babylonians with another 50 years until the end of the Babylonian Exile, plus another 430 years from the time of the completion of rebuilding the Second Temple. This formula when completed stating that a span of 4,106 years occur between the creation of Earth and the

Using the Books of Kings from the Old Testament, a list of kings along with the length of reign were used to determine a timeline. However, due to contradictions such as Rehoboam of Judah and Jeroboam of Israel who ruled at the same time and Ahaziah of Judah and Joram of Israel who were assassinated at the same time along with a gap of 95 years during the time of Kingdom of Judah and 98 years during the Kingdom of Israel it became difficult to establish a consistent timeline. Not until a series of nature historians that included Charles Darwin, George Curier, William Buckland and Charles Lyell, who all through science contributed to the more modern version of the creation of the