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 - traditions/timeline/, ble) - they don’t agree with each other precisely. ble
Creation (Gen. 1 – 3) 3760 BC - traditions/timeline/ 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