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The 50 years between the destruction of the Temple and the "Decree of Cyrus" and end of the Babylonian Exile, added to the 430 years for which the Temple stood, produces another symmetrical period of 480 years. [4] The 374 years between the Edict of Cyrus and the re-dedication of the Second Temple by the Maccabees complete the 4,000 year cycle. [6]
The Ordo annorum mundi is a brief anonymous text written between the mid-5th century and the beginning of the 7th century. [1] It enumerates the years from Adam to Jesus Christ by summing several stages of biblical history. The text, translated into English, reads as follow: [2] A calculation of the years of the world in brief.
Most of the 1,732-year difference resides in numerical discrepancies in the genealogies of the two versions of the Book of Genesis. Patriarchs from Adam to Terah, the father of Abraham, are said to be older by 100 years or more when they begat their named son in the Septuagint [4] [5] than they were in the Latin Vulgate, [6] or the Hebrew ...
The Liber Generationis, a work found alongside Hippolytus work, states that Jesus lived 30 years and gives an interval of 206 between the Passion and the "present day", which was the year 5738 after Adam, the 13th of Severus Alexander [AD 234]. This implies a birth date of 3 BC. [185]
The year Seth was born. Adam was 130 years old. Genesis 5:3: 4011 Ante C. 3769: The year Enosh was born. Seth was 105, Adam 235 years old. Genesis 5:6: 3921 The year Kenan was born. Enosh was 90, Seth 195, Adam 325 years old. Genesis 5:9: 3851 The year Mahalalel was born. Kenan was 70, Enosh 160, Seth 265, Adam 395 years old. Genesis 5:12: 3786 ...
After telling of the baptism of Jesus, Luke 3:23–38 states, "Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was [the son] of Heli, ..." (3:23) and continues on until "Adam, which was [the son] of God." (3:38) The Greek text of Luke's Gospel does not use the word "son" in the genealogy ...
The date of 4000 BC as the creation of Adam was at least partially influenced by the widely held belief that the Earth was approximately 5600 years old (2000 from Adam to Abraham, 2000 from Abraham to the birth of Christ, and 1600 years from Christ to Ussher), corresponding to the six days of Creation, on the grounds that "one day is with the ...
From Adam, the first man created by God, to Noah, at whose time the flood took place, there were ten generations. The first, which was from God, was that of Adam. The second, after 230 years, was that of Seth begotten of Adam. The third, 205 years after Seth, was that of Enos begotten of Seth. The fourth, 190 years after Enos, was that of ...