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The Hillel camp assumes that Abraham was born when Terah was seventy years old. But the Ussher camp asserts that the Bible shows Abraham leaving the Haran country ''after'' Terah was dead at the age of 205--which would make Terah 130 years old when Abraham was born. They explain the 60-year discrepancy by holding that [[Nahor]] or [[Haran]] was born when Terah was 70 years old, and Abraham was born much later. | The Hillel camp assumes that Abraham was born when Terah was seventy years old. But the Ussher camp asserts that the Bible shows Abraham leaving the Haran country ''after'' Terah was dead at the age of 205--which would make Terah 130 years old when Abraham was born. They explain the 60-year discrepancy by holding that [[Nahor]] or [[Haran]] was born when Terah was 70 years old, and Abraham was born much later. | ||
As has been said [[Anno Mundi#Date of creation in The Annals of the World|elsewhere]], Ussher's sole warrant for assuming this later date for Abraham's birth was the placement of the description of Abraham's departure after the account of Terah's death. He assumed that the Bible listed events in the order in which they took place. Modern Ussherites, among them Larry Pierce, assume the same. | As has been said [[Anno Mundi#Date of creation in The Annals of the World|elsewhere]], Ussher's sole warrant for assuming this later date for Abraham's birth was the placement of the description of Abraham's departure after the account of Terah's death. He assumed that the Bible listed events in the order in which they took place. Modern Ussherites, among them [[Larry Pierce]], assume the same. | ||
Critics of this assumption by Ussher point out that ample precedent exists for the listing of certain events out of their strict order of occurrence, and in a more logical grouping by the life of the person involved. {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=5}} is a perfect example of this. One can see further examples in the King Lists in I and II Kings. More to the point, the sentence "Terah died in Haran" could refer to a ''spiritual'' death that [[God]] reckoned when Terah forgot his initial purpose in taking his family out of their home city of [[Ur of the Chaldees]]. | Critics of this assumption by Ussher point out that ample precedent exists for the listing of certain events out of their strict order of occurrence, and in a more logical grouping by the life of the person involved. {{Bible ref|book=Genesis|chap=5}} is a perfect example of this. One can see further examples in the King Lists in I and II Kings. More to the point, the sentence "Terah died in Haran" could refer to a ''spiritual'' death that [[God]] reckoned when Terah forgot his initial purpose in taking his family out of their home city of [[Ur of the Chaldees]]. | ||
