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The following timeline of the Old Testament has been compiled with the assumption that the genealogies are literal and complete. If so, God created the world about 6000 years ago. All years are approximate. Creation to the Flood.
Timeline based on traditionally accepted timeframes and general consensus of a variety of sources, including Wilmington's Guide to the Bible, A Survey of Israel's History (Wood), The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings (Thiele), ESV Study Bible, The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, and Easton's ...
Most Bible scholars estimate there were about 1,513 years between Moses and Jesus based on a timeline analysis of events and people described in the Old and New Testaments. According to the biblical timeline, Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt around 1446 BC. Jesus was born around 5 BC.
Moses is born into a family where the oldest child, Miriam, is 10 to 12 years old while brother Aaron is three. His parents live at a time when the Israelites, although far more numerous than the Egyptians, are nevertheless subjugated and made to work as slaves (Exodus 1:7 - 14).
The majority of scholars see the biblical Moses as a legendary figure, while retaining the possibility that Moses or a Moses-like figure existed in the 13th century BCE. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Rabbinical Judaism calculated a lifespan of Moses corresponding to 1391–1271 BCE; [ 18 ] Jerome suggested 1592 BCE, [ 19 ] and James Ussher ...
Moses spent the first 40 years of his life quite likely under the 18th dynasty kings: Thutmose I (c. 1542 — c. 1524 b.c.), and Thutmose II (c. 1524 — c. 1504 b.c.), and Queen Hatshepsut (c. 1504 — c. 1486 b.c.), a daughter of Thutmose I and on the basis of the chronology here suggested doubtless the "daughter of Pharaoh" referred to in Ex 2:5—10.
Moses is traditionally believed to have been born around the 14th century BCE, with approximate dates ranging from 1391 BCE to 1271 BCE. His birth is not precisely documented, but it is an important event in the narrative of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Key Events: