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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] nounhistorical 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