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Israel in Egypt (Edward Poynter, 1867). The story of the Exodus is told in the first half of Exodus, with the remainder recounting the 1st year in the wilderness, and followed by a narrative of 39 more years in the books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the last four of the first five books of the Bible (also called the Torah or Pentateuch). [10]
The Exodus takes place in (AM 2666), exactly two-thirds of the way through the 4,000 years, marking it as the pivotal event of the chronology. [6] It is also two-thirds of the way through the 40 notional " generations " of 100 years each, with Aaron , the first High Priest of Israel , representing the 26th generation from Adam.
The Hebrew Bible is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures and is the textual source for the Christian Old Testament.In addition to religious instruction, the collection chronicles a series of events that explain the origins and travels of the Hebrew peoples in the ancient Near East.
This is a timeline of the development of prophecy among the Jews in Judaism. All dates are given according to the Common Era , not the Hebrew calendar . See also Jewish history which includes links to individual country histories.
A literal reading of the Biblical chronology would place the Exodus about 1446 BCE, on the basis of the statement in 1 Kings 6:1 that the Temple was founded 480 years after the Exodus. [23] From this a literal chronology can deduce dates for the entry into Canaan 40 years later and the birth of Moses 80 years earlier.
Rohl and other New Chronology researchers contend that this fits better with the Hebrew Bible's description of Solomon's wealth. [4] Furthermore, Rohl shifts the Israelite Sojourn, Exodus and Conquest from the end of the Late Bronze Age to the latter part of the Middle Bronze Age (from the Nineteenth Dynasty to the Thirteenth/Hyksos period ...
– Timeline from Abraham to the end of the Talmud i.e. 500 CE. Timeline for the History of Judaism; The History of the Jewish People The Jewish Agency; The Avalon Project at Yale Law School The Middle East 1916–2001: A Documentary Record; Historical Maps and Atlases at Dinur Center; Crash Course in Jewish History (Aish)
The Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the ... 1 Kings 6 states that 480 years elapsed from the Exodus to the beginning of construction ...