For a general overview of chronological dating of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) according to several different approaches, including those of Jewish and ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian chronologies, see Chronology of the Bible.
For New Testament chronologies, see Dating the Bible, Chronology of Jesus, Timeline of Christianity, and Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles: Historicity.
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Biblical literalist chronology is the attempt to correlate the historical dates used in the Bible with the chronology of actual events, typically starting with creation in Genesis 1:1.[1] Some of the better-known calculations include Archbishop James Ussher, who placed it in 4004 BC, Isaac Newton in 4000 BC (both off the Masoretic Hebrew Bible), Martin Luther in 3961 BC, the traditional Hebrew calendar date of 3760 BC, and lastly the dates based on the Septuagint, of roughly 4650 BC.[2] The dates between the Septuagint & Masoretic are conflicting by 650 years between the genealogy of Arphaxad to Nahor in Genesis 11:12-24. The Masoretic text, which lacks the 650 years of the Septuagint, is the text used by most modern Bibles. There is no consensus of which is right, however, without the additional 650 years in the Septuagint, according to Egyptologists[3] the great Pyramids of Giza would pre-date the Flood (yet show no signs of water erosion) and provide no time for Tower of Babel event.
^Barr 2001, p. 96.
^The Septuagint Hebrew Bible contains an additional 650 years then the Masoretic of Genesis 11:12-24.
^Pyramids were built in 2550 B.C. according to National Geographic which would pre-date the Flood in 2350 B.C. according to creationist based on dates given in the Masoretic text.
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