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.

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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.

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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.

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Creation (Gen. 1 – 3)

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

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Noah and the Flood (Gen. 6 – 9)

* 2704 BC - Noah born

* 2102 – The Flood

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Terah leaves Ur and settles in Harran

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Abraham goes from Harran to Canaan

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The Covenant of Circumcision

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Abraham and Isaac

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Joseph goes to Egypt

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Moses leads the Exodus out of Egypt