Talk:Biblical genealogy

Here's an example of how to create a timeline. Used in Biblical chronology. We should create a timeline illustrating the lifespan of each person in the genealogy to at least Abraham. Each person would essentially have a different bar representing his life.


 * Timeline Help
 * Timeline Syntax

Table query
Technically the heading in the table "1st son" isn't always true but the next in the genealogy. Is there a better way to say this? WesDale 00:49, 9 June 2007 (EDT)


 * Concerning the "first son" thing, perhaps it could be changed to "age at descendant's birth" or something like that.


 * Also, I notice that Abraham's birthyear is off from the chart...it reads 2009. But if his father Terah was born on 1879 AM and Abraham was born when Terah was 70 years old(maximum), Abraham should have been born on 1949 AM at the very latest(Genesis 11:26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. From my understanding, this means that this was Terah's age after the youngest child was born).


 * Now, the page says that the 2009 AM year was taken from James Ussher's "The Annals of the World". In that case, perhaps someone should check to see if that genealogy includes Cainan(included between Arphaxad and Shelah, in the Septuagint manuscripts), or if is has one of the alternate list of ages.

In reply:

Terah was seventy years old when he started to have his sons. But Abraham was born last, and Haran first. Terah died in Haran the country at the age of 205, and Abraham was 75 years old at the time. Therefore Abraham was born when Terah was 130 years old, sixty years after the birth of his eldest brother Haran.--TemlakosTalk 15:11, 29 October 2009 (UTC)