1. 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.

2. 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_Bi ble) - they don’t agree with each other precisely. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Bi ble

3. Creation (Gen. 1 – 3) 3760 BC - http://www.akhlah.com/jewish- traditions/timeline/http://www.akhlah.com/jewish- traditions/timeline/

4. Noah and the Flood (Gen. 6 – 9) * 2704 BC - Noah born * 2102 – The Flood

5. Terah leaves Ur and settles in Harran

6. Abraham goes from Harran to Canaan

7. The Covenant of Circumcision

8. Abraham and Isaac

9. Joseph goes to Egypt

10. Moses leads the Exodus out of Egypt