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>Mike,
>
>Have you read William Henry Green's Primeval Chronology (Bibliotheca
>Sacra, 47(1890), 285-303)? I think it is the classic treatise on this
>subject. It is printed as an appendix in Genesis 1 and the Origin of the
>Earth by Newman and Eckelmann. His article compares the genealogies in the
>Bible and notes the apparent discrepancies. He argues quite convincingly
>that it was normal in Hebrew genealogies to skip generations in order to
>make a segment have the desired number of generations. (Matthew 1 is
>typical of this.)
>
>Gordon Brown
>Department of Mathematics
>University of Colorado
>Boulder, CO 80309-0395
>
>
>On Mon, 6 May 2002 MikeSatterlee@cs.com wrote:
>
>> As I mentioned in a recent post to Dick, I have recently
>>completed a several
>> year long study of the historical records found in the scriptures, with a
>> view to determining if the chronological information contained
>>therein can be
>> used, and was intended by God to be used, to accurately assign historical
>> dates to various events recorded in the Old and New Testaments.
>>I have come
>> to the conclusion that the chronological information contained in
>>the Bible's
>> historical records was preserved there by God for us to use for that very
>> purpose. I am convinced that the Bible itself, with the help of several
>> "anchor" dates provided to us by secular historians, tells us that Noah's
>> flood occurred in 2350 BC. I have thoroughly considered and
>>dispensed of all
>> arguments to the contrary, including the argument that the Genesis
>> genealogies may contain "gaps" which some say are evidenced by a "second
>> Cainan" not listed in the Genesis genealogies, who Luke is said to have
>> listed in his genealogy of Christ.
>>
>> As has been noted, this 2350 BC date for Noah's flood is the
>>same date that
>> James Ussher assigned to the flood over 350 years ago based on
>>his study of
>> Bible chronology. In my opinion, Ussher got lucky. He ended up
>>with the right
>> date despite the fact that he had been off by over forty years in
>>his dating
>> of a very crucial event in Old testament history. That event was
>>the division
>> of the kingdom of Israel upon the death of Solomon. He dated that event to
>> 976 BC, which cannot possibly be reconciled with several well established
>> dates in Bible history.
>>
>> However, I believe Usher was correct in the literal way in which he
>> understood the chronological information contained in the Genesis
>> genealogies, which caused him to date Noah's flood at about 2350 BC
>> (2349-2348). And in his 4004 dating of Adam's creation, though I
>>prefer 4005.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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