Hi ASA
Dick I agree with your historical setting for the Flood though I'm a bit
uncertain about the correlation with Rameses II. Evidence suggests that he
was the historical "Shishak" of the Bible and hence dates to c. 950 BC. The
date for the Exodus should probably be retained at the Biblical c.1450 BC,
though the "480 years" of 1 Kings 6:1 maybe be a truncation of the actual
span between Exodus and Temple.
Hence the Flood would date to c. 2300 by the Masoretic text, or perhaps 3100
BC by the LXX. I suspect you're close with 2900.
Adam
>From: Dick Fischer <dfischer@mnsinc.com>
>To: asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: Imago Dei
>Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 20:25:20 -0500
>
>
>The early dynastic period of Mesopotamian history dates from 2900 BC to
>2370 BC and begins with the post-flood rulers at Kish. The flood layers at
>Kish, Shuruppak, Uruk (Erech), and Lagash were dated by archaeologists
>at approximately 2900 BC.
>
>If the Exodus was during the reign of Raamses II, dated by scholars at
>1290 BC, if there are 615 years from Abraham to the Exodus using Ussher
>and Light foot's measure, if there are 1072 years between Abraham and the
>flood from the Septuagint, and if the flood lasted one year, then the
>year of the flood was 2978 BC. In the absence of data to the contrary,
>2900 BC or thereabouts is my choice.
>
>Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
>"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago."
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