What is the date of the Exodus?
Usshers
chronology places the
date of Exodus in April of 1491 BC.
His
dates
were published in the King James Authorized Bible as early as 1701 AD
and are the ones used on the Bible
History Timeline above.
Thiele, a modern Biblical chronologist, calculates it to 1446
BC - a date often used by modern Evangelicals.
Josephus relates it to the expulsion of the Hyskos from Egypt circa
1552 BC
The Septuagint, on which the Catholic Bible is based, makes it 1512 BC
That gives a hundred year range of dates. That's not bad when
you consider how hard it is to date ancient history. For
instance
Egyptologists suggest a 2300 year range of dates (from 2450 BC to 5004
BC) when trying to date
the first Egyptian King, Menes.
The
original inspired Bible text does not include dates - these have been added by man- although it
does include the number of years between events.
However,
not all events are linked so that
dates have to be calculated using historical events mentioned in the
Bible that have secular dates associated with them. How the
dates of Bible events are calculated is another
question.
Related article: The
Three Bible Timelines:
Why and How They Differ
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