Advanced Timeline: Missing Sections of Scripture?

Matt Leonard

Hey,

Continuing my questions about the Advanced Timeline, I'm noticing areas of history are missing.

Or at least seam to be.

For example, 1444 - Establishment of the Priesthood and Ritual Cleaning.

but then it jumps to 1406 - Israel Cross the Jordan into Canaan

This is obviously missing a huge amount of history.

Am it missing something or somehow filtering out information but not being zoomed in enough of something.

Or is the information just not in the timeline.

Can you recommend a good resourse for key dates in the bible, such as those missing from the Timeline. 

Many thanks,

Matt

MJ. Smith

Running a sample search ("1440 BC" OR "1435 BC" OR "1430 BC" OR "1425 BC") against all books, I find Egyptian rulers as the primary occurrences of dates between 1444 and 1406. Do you have specific events in mind that are given dates in a Logos book?

DMB

I tried it out ... I can see the problem (sort of missing a good portion of the Pentateuch, but that's iffy ... never know exactly which levers/filters to pull).

But what amazed me (back to program design and the need for new staff), on a Mac M1 Ventura (if that matters), I had to scroll blank space, and scroll blank space, and scroll blank space and scroll blank space (and scroll blank space) to get to the next section.  Then repeat the whole scrolling for the next section.

I'm guessing the blank space has stuff off screen somewhere (maybe didn't pull the right lever/filter).  I'd like to think maybe a Phd is in order, but I suspect it's closer to .... well, personnel issues.

Anyway good luck finding the answer.

Kathleen Marie

Matt Leonard said:

Hey,

Continuing my questions about the Advanced Timeline, I'm noticing areas of history are missing.

Missing areas on timelines. LOL. There are always missing areas on every timeline that is "appropriate" to source in a seminary paper. All of chronology is biases, so obviously this webpage is biased, but I think it is a good place to start understanding WHY there are so many missing areas on timelines. 

http://www.creationwiki.org/Biblical_chronology_dispute#Five_Schools_of_Thought

If you choose a timeline, a date that you will want to know is when Peleg was born. I never gave Peleg's birth a second thought until I started studying chronology. A lot of dates are figured off of Peleg's birth.

Stop when this is no longer fun, because you are unlikely to create a complete timeline, unless you accept "outdated" references as superior to "acceptable" resources.

Matt Leonard

Thanks for everyones helpful comments.

Matt

David Paul

Fwiw, only a small part (the initial part) of the wilderness wandering is described with events. Tne first couple or so years have details, but then there is a quick flash forward toward the end of that period. There are some here-and-there descriptions of some of what happened in a generic sense during that period--their clothes and shoes didn't wear out; they slowly dropped like flies; etc.--but, for the most part, there aren't any narratives of the bulk (30+ years) of that period.

You used the word "history" a few times, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've mentioned this before, but the original division of TaNaKh: (hence the term) is Law (T), Prophets (N), Writings (K). The so-called "Historical" books (per the LXX) are correctly seen as prophecy, not history, in the original (hebraic) perspective. The Bible isn't a history book and it makes no attempt to be such. It is a book relaying purposeful objectives supported by prophetic material (successes and failures in achieving those objectives, with long-term outcomes described--some of which is narrative), and only the material with prophetic importance is included. TONS of stuff that would be historically interesting is completely ignored. With regard to the "missing" years mentioned above, YHWH chose to pack the relevant prophetic material in the first and last parts of the wandering period, so that's what's described.