Timeline of the patriarchs

[gnostic]

I was wondering if someone could help me? :help:

Last year, I had used the Genesis to work out the timeline from Adam to Joseph, and I had recently post this in my new website called Dark Mirrors of Heaven.

Although, this is completed as far as the Genesis is concerned, I am curious nonetheless of the post-Genesis, but I get stuck at this stage. :thud:

Has anyone worked out the time period between Levi and Moses? :help:

I know that there is a bit of record on Moses's family in Exodus 6:14-27, but it make it difficult to work out from one generation to the next. All I have is the ages of their deaths, from Levi to Moses' father. I know how old Levi was when he died, but not his age when Kohath was born. Moses' line is Levi, Kohath, Amram and then Moses.
I know that Moses died 120 years old, and the exodus from Egypt started when he was 80 (because they had been wandering through the wilderness for 40 years). But how old was Moses, when his son was born.

In Genesis 5, 10 and 11, you can estimate the time between the one patriarch being the father of the next future patriarch being born and the time of his death. Exodus 6 doesn't provide us with that extra date. Without the extra date, you can't do a proper calculation. So I am more interested from one generation to the birth of a new generation, and not their time of death.

 

[Light in darkness]

I'm going to ask you this first; did you start with 1Kings 6:1? It gives us the clue in figuring out the timeline. It says that 48oth year after the Israelites left Egypt in the 4th year of King solomon's reign he started to build the temple. So, all we need to know what year King Solomon reigned. that is easy. We can Google it. It was 970 B.C. 970 - 4 (We subbtract because in B.C. it is backwards from figuring A.D.)=966 B.C. So, in 966 B.C. the temple was finished. Now to move backwards we add. 966+480=1446 B.C. is when the Israelites left Egypt. I will post more to help you, but the best source are three books I recommend to you. 1)The Genesis Genealogies 2) The Covenant of the Torch 3) The Eternal Lamp of the covenant. All of them written by Pastor Abraham Park. You can order at Barnes and Noble. So check it out.

 

[gnostic]

I'm going to ask you this first; did you start with 1Kings 6:1? It gives us the clue in figuring out the timeline. It says that 48oth year after the Israelites left Egypt in the 4th year of King solomon's reign he started to build the temple. So, all we need to know what year King Solomon reigned. that is easy. We can Google it. It was 970 B.C. 970 - 4 (We subbtract because in B.C. it is backwards from figuring A.D.)=966 B.C. So, in 966 B.C. the temple was finished. Now to move backwards we add. 966+480=1446 B.C. is when the Israelites left Egypt. I will post more to help you, but the best source are three books I recommend to you. 1)The Genesis Genealogies 2) The Covenant of the Torch 3) The Eternal Lamp of the covenant. All of them written by Pastor Abraham Park. You can order at Barnes and Noble. So check it out.

No I haven't used 1 Kings 6:1, because there are number of problems associating it with the 480 years.

For one, the 480 years is a figure based on the Masoretic Text, which most modern bible have based English translations of this Masoretic Text, including that of KJV. This number contradicts and clashes with the Septuagint Bible.

Then there is the (2nd) problem with of your calculation to 1446 BCE. Assuming that you are correct, then it would put the date of the invasion of Canaan beginning in 1406 BCE (because of the wandering in the wilderness for 40 years).

There are more problems with these dates (1446-1406), especially when you compared them with the years in Egyptian history.

1. Thutmoses III (1479-1424 BCE, 18th Dynasty of New Kingdom) was a strong ruler of Egypt. He had originally ruled with his stepmother, Hatshepsut, but became sole ruler in 1479 BCE at her death. Syria (as well Canaan) was under his control in his empire. He won decisive victory in battle against the Canaanites and took the capture the city of Megiddo in 1457. Thutmoses was succeeded by Amenhotep II (1424-1398 BCE). Amenhotep was by no mean a weak king, and ruled Syria (as well as Canaan). Canaan remained in Egyptian control for another 2 successors - Thutmoses IV (1398-1388 BCE) and Amenhotep III (1388-1348). Joshua' invasion could not have happen at time (1406 BCE, based on your estimate) between Amenhotep II and Amenhotep III.
2. In Exodus 1, it clearly stated that Pithom and Rameses (Avaris) were built by Israelite slaves. Although Avaris existed before the 18th dynasty, it lay abandoned with the 1st king of the 18th dynasty (Ahmose 1, 1549-1524 BCE), who had it destroyed about 1530 BCE, after driving out the Hyksos. Avaris wasn't rebuilt until the 19th dynasty, by Ramesses II (1279 - 1213 BC). Avaris was renamed to Pi-Ramesses. Pithom didn't exist at all in the 18th dynasty, and this city was also built by Ramesses II. So if you believe in Exodus, then it couldn't have happen in 1446 BCE.
3. Also Canaan was under the control of Ramesses II (and that of his immediate successor (Merneptah, 1212 - 1201 BCE). There was a battle which was said to be won by Ramesses' army at Kadesh against the Hittites, in 1274, but the battle was more likely had ended in stalemate. A treaty (c 1258) stated Canaan and south Syria remained in Egypt's hand, while the Hittites kept northern Syria. So, these events would also clash with Joshua's invasion.
4. Speaking of Merneptah. The only Bronze Age historical (Egyptian) literary record that mentioned Israel is found in the Stele of Merneptah.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

(There is something a bit disgusting and symptomatic about posing this question in the Christianity DIR.)

 

[gnostic]

(There is something a bit disgusting and symptomatic about posing this question in the Christianity DIR.)

I supposed that it could be moved, if one of the staff could move it to appropriate area.

I don't know why I posted here, and I have forgotten that I've created this thread, for no one bother to reply till now. I have only been member here around a few months.

How do I request a move, and where should I move it to?