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Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :

Real quick, could anyone tell me the estimated year that Moses led the Jews out of Egypt? Again, don't ask why.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

On what calendar?

Posted by Jaiden (Member # 2099) on :

I think 1335 BC... but... it's been years so someone else should answer [Wink]

[ June 29, 2004, 12:18 AM: Message edited by: Jaiden ]

Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :

Really? That exact? Thanks a lot, that sure was "real quick."

EDIT: Calendar? No idea. Just the year would do fine, in BC.

[ June 29, 2004, 12:19 AM: Message edited by: Book ]

Posted by Jaiden (Member # 2099) on :

Ummm.... you should wait till others answer- I took that class over 6 years ago

As far as exact, these are estimates. No idea why that exact number.

Posted by Jaiden (Member # 2099) on :

http://www.practicalchristianliving.org/timeline.htm

http://www.cynet.com/jesus/timeline/timelin2.htm

They all give different numbers. The second one is the one I seem to reconize the most dates on [Dont Know]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*rolls eyes* Gregorian calendar, then?

About 1300 BCE.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*posts cautiously* [Angst]

Um, to be exact, I'd say 1312 BCE.

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

Just so credit goes somewhere... I'm the one who phantom-bumped this dead thread last night to bring it back to life. Also Biblical, right? *smile*

Posted by Alai's Echo (Member # 3219) on :

Well, that date would be incorrect if Moses went before Ramses II to request the release of the Hebrews. He lived from 1279 ~ 1213, according to those I asked. The times may vary according to who you ask, but it could have also been Ramses I or Horemheb, but there is nothing mentioned in their histories pointing to an exodus during their reigns. In fact, outside of the Bible, which gives no date or name, AFAIK, there is no record of a huge Hebrew slave population or mass egress. If the Hebrews really were slaves, they would have been accounted for in the economic archives, almost the only form of records from that time. Not to mean that the Bible is wrong or lying, just that there is no accurate way to know when the Exodus happened just from biblical account, which is the only source.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Does the first timeline seem really messed up to anyone else. For example, the entry for "Rules regarding Passover Celebration given" says that it happened 2 years after they left Egypt, but the verse says it happened "in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt," which is about only one year later.

Am I missing something?

Dagonee

Posted by Alai's Echo (Member # 3219) on :

The link is just an example showing Ramses II. The person I got the actual information from can't post here and isn't even online. I have his notes, but somehow I doubt posting them is going to be any help. Around here, post any link, source, or fact, and out of the next six posts, at least three will be refutations of the veracity of the original post. Someone is only going to believe what agrees with what they already believe to begin with.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

I was talking about the first timeline in Jaiden's post - your links I've actually gone to in the past month for other reasons.