The King's Calendar' is a computer generated mathematical synchronous chronological presentation of the history of Ancient Israel, as principally recorded in the Biblical books of Kings and Chronicles, and sets forth Apologetics for and the results of R.P.BenDedek's discovery of an "artificial chronological scheme" running through the Books of the Bible, Josephus,the Damascus Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Seder Olam Rabbah:Israel Timeline charts: Citations and References for students from over 100 Academic publications:
Beginning with this article, we commence a study of Seder Olam Rabbah
This Article is Divided into the Following Sections.
1. Introduction 2. Seder Olam Rabbah - Adam to Abraham 3. Adam to the Flood: King's Calendar Reconstruction. 4. Abraham, The Covenant & Leaving Haran. 5. The Flood to the Tower of Babel. 6. Joseph 7. Summary 8. Footnotes 9. Related Reading & Bibliography
1. Introduction.
This article presents the chronological data offered in the Seder Olam Rabbah, and compares it with the 'King's Calendar' Reconstruction of Israelite History, in which each Biblical year is given a value of 336 years. [Refer to Footnotes]
The main purpose is to see if each datum synchronises with surrounding data. This of itself, is a purely mathematical exercise, but within this article, you are given the benefit of seeing how that data is reflected in true time, as had already been calculated independently by the King's Calendar.
Note: You can check the projections made in this article by clicking on 'Appendix 12' in the CHAPTER PRECIS section Note Please that this file was available only for a limited time.
King's Calendar years move faster than Solar Years, so both the 'Line' Numbers of the King's Calendar (against which you can check chronological references), and their equivalent Solar Calendar years, are provided.
2.Seder Olam Rabbah - Adam to Abraham
This particular section will be presented as a Chart containing the chronological details contained in the Seder Olam Rabbah.
Seder Olam Rabbah quotes 1656 years from Adam to the flood
A tally of the individual figures however shows it to be 1662 years
The Bible provides 105 years for Seth
Seder Olam provides 108 years
The Bible provides 65 years for Mehalalel
Seder Olam provides 68 years
Josephus apparently makes Enoch 100 years older at the time of Methuselah's birth
Shem was born when Noah was 500 years old.
Shem was 100 years old at the time of the flood - but -
Genesis 11:10 says Arphaxad was born 2 years after the flood and that Shem was 100 years old
Post Flood Figures record how old each person was when their son was born. By this we can calculated the years after the flood until Abraham.
The Bible and Seder Olam correspond for the ages of the fathers when their sons were born
Josephus' time line for this period is obviously and grossly erroneous. See: Noah and the Flood:
Also See: Ages of the Patriarchs: Genesis Chapter 11: Bible Chronology : Septuagint: Masorete: Josephus and Seder Olam.
3. Adam to the Flood: King's Calendar Reconstruction.
Note: Dates provided here are taken from 'The King's Calendar:The Secret of Qumran' Appendix Seventeen: From the Flood to Moses : The 292 years from the Flood to Abraham [This file is freely Available for a limited time].
No justification for King's Calendar dates are provided in this article.[Refer to Footnotes]
Adam to the Flood.
There are no King's Calendar charts for this period of time, however, general dates can be calculated. [Refer: Footnotes : General formula for Biblical Data conversion]
To calculate from Adam to the Flood which totals 1656 years: multiply 1656 by 336 to arrive at 556416 which is divided by 364 to approximate 1528.6 Solar years.
If the flood occurred in 2184 BCE - Then Adam was created in 3712 BCE - Making 2005 the 5,717 th. year of creation (+/- months of 1 year).
This calculation presumes that the data provided for everything prior to the flood is in artificial years. If not, then 2184 BCE + 1656 years = 3840 BCE. AND 3840 + 2005 = the 5845th year of creation.]
This calculation also presumes that the data provided for everything between Abraham and the Flood is also in artificial years. If not, then a further 21 years is added to make 2005 the 5866th day of creation.]
Note: Whilst it is absolutely demonstrable that the date for the Divided Kingdom period and the years subsequent are 'artificial', and that the data back to Moses and the Exodus is undoubtedly 'artificial' and that the data back to Abraham's birth is 'most probably 'artificial', there is no way to know how the data prior to Abraham has been recorded.
4. Abraham, The Covenant, and Leaving Haran.
We start this section with a chart demonstrating the King's Calendar representation of pertinent chronological events mentioned in the Seder Olam Rabbah, which are to be raised here.
Abraham's Birth Year
Seder Olam Rabbah [And the Bible] maintains that Abraham was born 292 years after the Flood.
The Flood, according to the King's Calendar occurred in the year 2184 BCE and appears as Line 1731 [Appendix 17]
Counting 292 years from L.1731 brings us Line 1439 or the year 1915 BCE., as the year Abraham was born. [We will come back to this later].
The Covenant:
From Seder Olam Rabbah:
Our father Abraham was 70 years old when he was spoken to at the Covenant Between the Pieces as it is said (Ex. 12:41): "And it was after 430 years," etc.
After that he was spoken to he returned to Haran, stayed there five years as it is said (Gen. 12:4): "And Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran."
It follows that from the Dispersion until Abraham left Haran there were 26 years. These are exactly (Gen. 14:4-5) "12 years they served Chedorlaomer and 13 years they rebelled. And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came."
Measuring the 430 years of the covenant from it's determination for the Exodus, the King's Calendar determines that these 430 years commence in Abraham's 75th year ?(Line 1439 - 75 takes us to Line 1365 / 1846 BCE).
Seder Olam Rabbah says it starts in Abraham's 70th year, the King's Calendar says 75th year. This discrepancy of 5 years is a math problem, and not a matter of King's Calendar interpretation. It may be connected to the 6 year error prior to the Flood.
430 year Sojourn
No justification will be offered for the King's Calendar presentation within the Seder Olam Rabbah articles until we begin to deal with the Divided Kingdom Period. [Meanwhile - Research the King's Calendar].
The following chart provides some of the King's Calendar Results that are Pertinent to the Sojourn.
From the Exodus in 1449 BCE as determined by the King's Calendar, which is Line 935, to Line 1365 there are precisely 430 artificial years [397 Solar years.]
L. 935 or 1449 BCE Exodus.
L. 936 or 1450 BCE 215th year of the sojourn in Egypt - Josephus : Antiq. Bk 2 Ch.15:2
L. 1150 or 1648 BCE Jacob's 130th year sojourn in Egypt starts
L. 1279 or 1767 BCE Jacob born
L. 1339 or 1822 BCE Isaac born
L. 1365 or 1846 BCE Abraham's 75th year : Covenant : Seder Olam Rabbah says 70th year
The reference to the 430 years has application, even if Abraham's age does not synchronise.
5. The Flood to the Tower of Babel.
Seder Olam Rabbah says that between the Deluge and the Language Split, 340 years elapse
From the flood [2184 BCE / Line 1731] counting 340 years brings us to 1871 BCE / L.1392 as the date for the Tower of Babel punishment.
Seder Olam Rabbah and the King's Calendar both designate this year to be Abraham's 48th.
Noah survived the Language Split by 10 years. From 2184 BCE / L.1731 to 1861 BCE / L.1382
From the Dispersion until Abraham left Haran there were 26 years. 1871 BCE / L.1392 + 26 leads to 1847 BCE / L.1366
From the Flood to the birth of Isaac 392 years in 1822 BCE / L.1339
All references (including Seder Olam) indicate this to be Abraham's 100th year, and this is demonstrated in the King's Calendar.
Our forefather Isaac was 37 years old when he was bound to the altar. 1822 BCE/ L.1339 add 36 years to arrive at 1789 BCE. / L.1303. 37th year of Isaac as per King's Calendar.
All of the Seder Olam Rabbah chronological details are correct.
6. Joseph
This section is presented as a chart, since it is the best way to compare both the King's Calendar chronology and the statements in Seder Olam Rabbah.
This Section of the Seder Olam is not only correct, but provides New Data that allows us to make additional calculations pertinent to events for which currently we have no details.
7. Summary
Unlike Josephus who little understood what he was working with, the Seder Olam Rabbah presents Chronological details with good precision.
While many may still be struggling with the data in terms of Solar and other Calendars, the King's Calendar methodology which synchronises the Divided Kingdom of Israel [Appendix 5] using the Biblical Data as it stands [as an artificial record], finds the data provided by the Seder Olam Rabbah to be consistently 'in line' with both Biblical and extra Biblical data.
Definition: King's Calendar Chronological Research
'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran is a study of the chronologies of the Books of Kings and Chronicles in the Bible, as well as of Josephus and of the Damascus Document of the Dead Sea Scrolls.[And now apparently the Seder Olam Rabbah].
The Premise: Between the 5th and 3rd centuries BCE (but continuing down to at least 104 BCE), Sectarian redactors transcribed the legitimate 'solar year' chronological records of Israel and Judah, into an artificial form, with listed years as each comprised of 12 months of 4 weeks of 7 days, or 336 days per year, thus creating a 13th artificial year where 12 solar years existed.
When the Synchronous Chronological Data provided in the Books of Kings and Chronicles for the Divided Kingdom Period are measured in years of 336 days, the synchronisms actually align. [Refer to Appendix Five to see how it synchronises the Divided Kingdom Period]
General formula for Biblical Data conversion:
The formula for constructing the artificial calendar was:
'X' times 364 equals 'Y' days
'Y' days divided by 336 equals 'Z' artificial years.
Values are:
'X' = any given number of 'real/solar' years
364 = perceived days in the sectarian calendar
'Y' = number of days calculated
336 = number of days in an artificial year
'Z' = artificial years = 1.083'X' and represents the original number of the converted years plus 8%.
To reverse the process by hand:
'Z' years times 336 equals 'Y' divided by 364 equals the Number of 'X' years converted.
To see how effective this method is,SEE:Appendix 5:Diagrammatic Reconstruction of Israelite History from 936 to 586 BCE:
The Premise: Between the 5th and 3rd centuries BCE (but continuing down to at least 104 BCE), Sectarian redactors transcribed the legitimate 'solar year' chronological records of Israel and Judah, into an artificial form, with listed years as each comprised of 12 months of 4 weeks of 7 days, or 336 days per year, thus creating a 13th artificial year where 12 solar years existed.
When the Synchronous Chronological Data provided in the Books of Kings and Chronicles for the Divided Kingdom Period are measured in years of 336 days, the synchronisms actually align. [Refer to Appendix Five to see how it synchronises the Divided Kingdom Period]
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R.P.BenDedek is the owner and Editor of KingsCalendar.com which was originally set up to publicize his research results into the Chronology of Ancient Israel. Those results were published under the title: 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran'.
Whilst there have been many attempts to solve the chronological riddle of the Bible's synchronisms of reigns of the kings of Israel and Judah and their synchronism with other Ancient Near Eastern Nations, no other research is based on a simple mathematical formula which could, if it is incorrect, be disproved easily. To date, no one has been able to dismiss the mathematical results of this research.
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Topic 1. What is the Seder Olam Rabbah Topic 2. Seder Olam Chronological Chart : Adam to Abraham: Topic 3. Seder Olam & The 430 year Covenant with Abraham: Topic 4. Joseph in Seder Olam Rabbah: Topic 5. Seder Olam & The Pharaoh who knew not Joseph: Topic 6. Seder Olam & Israel Wandering in the Wilderness: Topic 7. 850 year/17 Jubilee Period, Joshua to Ezekiel's Vision in 14th year Exile: Topic 8. Comparative Chronologies:Seder Olam Rabbah, Josephus, Book of Judges: Topic 9. Ehud & 80 years of Peace - Judges 3:30 and Erroneous Biblical Chronology: Topic 10. Seder Olam:How Long was the Ark of the Covenant at Kiriath Jearim?: Topic 11. Seder Olam Rabbah's Confusing Chronology : Samuel, Saul and David: Topic 12: Seder Olam Chronological Discrepancies regarding Samuel, Saul & David. Topic 13: Apportioning the 63 years left for Samuel & Saul Topic 14: Seder Olam Rabbah : How many days in a Biblical year? Topic 15: Chronologies of Samuel,Saul, David & Solomon
