The Schematic Development of Old Testament Chronography: Towards an Integrated Model

Northcote, Jeremy

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“…Another theory, which considers the possibility of separate textual development, is that the genealogical lists were emended over a period of hundreds of years, from the sixth century BCE to the second century BCE for political or theological reasons, or in order to transmit secret systems of calendrical reckoning (Northcote 2004). If that were the case, the same mathematical formula would, necessarily, have had to have been handed down over several centuries, spanning various Jewish groups in different countries at alternative points in time.…”

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The Curse of Cainan (Jub. 8.1-5): Genealogies in Genesis 5 and Genesis 11 and a Mathematical Pattern

Jacobus

2009

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha

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This study suggests that Cainan (LXX Gen. 10.24; Gen. 11.12; [LXX A] 1 Chron. 1.18; Jub. 8.1-5; Lk. 3.36-37), the missing thirteenth patriarch from Adam in the genealogical table in Masoretic text (MT) and the Samaritan Pentateuch (SP) was known to the authors of the proto-MT, and the proto-SP. Using textual and chrono-genealogical analysis, it offers evidence to show that the thirteenth generation from the thirteenth generation from Adam had to contend with a curse. An arithmetical test on the variant chrono-genealogical data in Gen. 5 and Gen. 11 in the MT, SP, LXX Vaticanus (B), LXX Alexandrinus (A) and the Peshitta show that the ages and `begetting' ages of the ancestors across the recensions create an integrated mathematical model. It would appear that the variant data in the texts was compiled by the same mathematical school of Jewish scholars, probably in Palestine and Alexandria. The arithmetical paradigm takes into account Cainan's presence in LXX B and LXX A and his absence in the proto-MT, proto-SP and the Peshitta. It is likely that the Gen. 5 and Gen. 11 chrono-genealogies can be dated to between the compilation of the LXX Genesis, in the third century BCE and the schism between the Samaritans and the Jews in the second century BCE.

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The Curse of Cainan (Jub. 8.1-5): Genealogies in Genesis 5 and Genesis 11 and a Mathematical Pattern

Jacobus

2009

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha

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Przyczynek do chronologii królów Izraela i Judy

Mucha

2019

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Listy królów są wynikiem zamierzonej kompozycji autora biblijnego. Licząc od Saula do Ozeasza dla Izraela oraz od Dawida do Sedecjasza dla dynastii Dawidowej, każda genealogia zawiera 22 władców. Liczba ta nie jest przypadkowa, gdyż są 22 litery w alfabecie hebrajskim, a także 22 patriarchów od Adama do Jakuba. Żeby uzyskać tę liczbę władców w każdym królestwie, niektórzy królowie mogli zostać pominięci lub dodani. Listy królów Izraela i Judy mogą zatem nie odzwierciedlać rzeczywistej chronologii.

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The Schematic Development of Old Testament Chronography: Towards an Integrated Model

Abstract: The chronological figures in the OT

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

The Curse of Cainan (Jub. 8.1-5): Genealogies in Genesis 5 and Genesis 11 and a Mathematical Pattern

The Curse of Cainan (Jub. 8.1-5): Genealogies in Genesis 5 and Genesis 11 and a Mathematical Pattern

Przyczynek do chronologii królów Izraela i Judy

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