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The various camps agree on a number of key facts: | The various camps agree on a number of key facts: | ||
# The genealogy in the [[Bible]] from [[Adam]] to [[Noah]], the date of the [[Global Flood]] in relation to [[Creation]], and the further genealogy from [[Shem]] son of Noah to [[Terah]] father of [[Abraham]], make a continuous timeline that four of these camps accept virtually without question. The Long Chronology camp insists that the manuscripts other than the Septuagint skipped or omitted a number of generations. | # The genealogy in the [[Bible]] from [[Adam]] to [[Noah]], the date of the [[Global Flood]] in relation to [[Creation]], and the further genealogy from [[Shem]] son of Noah to [[Terah]] father of [[Abraham]], make a continuous timeline that four of these camps accept virtually without question. The Long Chronology camp insists that the manuscripts other than the Septuagint skipped or omitted a number of generations. | ||
# The | # The genealogy from [[Abraham]] to [[Jacob]]'s sons forms another unquestioned interval of time--though Terah's age at the ''birth'' of Abraham is in dispute (see below). | ||
# The groundbreaking of the [[Temple of Jerusalem]] took place in the 480th year following the [[Exodus of Israel]] from [[Egypt]]. | # The groundbreaking of the [[Temple of Jerusalem]] took place in the 480th year following the [[Exodus of Israel]] from [[Egypt]].<ref>{{Bible ref|book=I_Kings|chap=6|verses=1}}</ref> The Late Date Camp, however, dates the Exodus in 1290 BC, 201 years later than Ussher and 156 years later than Thiele, compressing the period of the [[Judges]] greatly. | ||
== Key Points of Dispute == | == Key Points of Dispute == | ||
