Where we’re going

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Where we’re going

Weeks 1 & 2: The history of a book: who wrote the Bible? *

Weeks 3 & 4: The history of a people: Is what the Bible says about the early history of the ancient Israelites accurate?

historicity: [his-tuh-ris-i-tee] noun historical authenticity.

* We’ll return to the authorship of the bible towards the end of the term.

Chronology of the Bible

* Chronology of events according to the Bible

* Chronology of events according to what the Bible says about family-trees and the length of time people lived and ruled

* Various biblical chronologies (eg -http://www.akhlah.com/jewish-traditions/timeline/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Bible) - they don’t agree with each other precisely.

Creation (Gen. 1 – 3)

• 3760 BC - http://www.akhlah.com/jewish-traditions/timeline/

Noah and the Flood (Gen. 6 – 9)

* 2704 BC - Noah born

* 2102 – The Flood

Terah leaves Ur and settles in Harran

Abraham goes from Harran to Canaan

The Covenant of Circumcision

Abraham and Isaac

Joseph goes to Egypt

Moses leads the Exodus out of Egypt