The Exodus

when did Joshua first cross the Jordan to take the first city.... Jericho? About 1240BC. There was no King before Saul... later. Reply

Why not early Spring, circa 1406 BC.
The crossing took place on the 10th day of the first month of the Hebrew calendar (Nissan), just before Passover.
[1 Kings is 1 Melachim]
They crossed opposite the city of Jericho. The Jordan River was in flood season (springtime harvest) when they crossed on dry ground. Reply

Tue, March 13, 1312 B.C.E.
Is the Gregorian date of the Exodus Reply

If we take the widely accepted notion that Solomon began his reign in 970 BC, then the book of the Kings, chapter 6 provides us the answer with a little math. The exodus was in 1446 BC. Reply

You can not. That is called a "proleptic calendar"; using a calendar to go back in time before the calendar even existed. Reply

The Gregorian calendar is relatively new!

From Britannica.com "... countries adopted the Gregorian calendar: the Protestant German states in 1699, Great Britain and its colonies in 1752, Sweden in 1753, Japan in 1873, China in 1912, the Soviet socialist republics in 1918, and Greece in 1923." Reply

Keeping track of the solar year, as well as a lunar based year, predates the Julian calendar. The "Jewish" calendar existed long before the Julian version. The year of the Exodus is 1313 and, coincidentally, in that year in Egypt the capital city was emptied and the Pharaoh saved building blocks from the abandoned city and reused them. Reply

No , they did not start thier own tribe. Each one , each family, joined themselves to a tribe and got under the banner of that tribe and became part of that tribe. Each was under the covenant and placed themselves under the law of the ALMIGHTY. They became one nation, one people , one law. A nation was borne in one day!!! Reply

Amen. Thank you Irving. The success of the modern Jews continues as in Genesis 12 verse 3 only because their leadership keeps educating their children to have a useful skill and do what God commands. Exodus 31 to 35 shares the skills that build every dominant nation. At last the simplicity of the answer is revealed. Just as the next step in God's plan involved others who choose the law of Heavenly values. Reply

Ignore my above comment. Clearly the.verse in exodus 12.40 says children of Israel therefore you cannot begin the count from Abraham or Isaac or Jacob. Only from his children. Therefore Jacob was 130 when they went down to Egypt which was the year 2238 plus 430 years means the exodus was in the year 2668. Which means our calendar is off by 220 years which means we're are in the year 5998 which means moshiach is coming in 2020-2021 and the Zohar confirms this in vayeara . Moshiach appears in the year 72-72 after the state of Israel matches perfectly with the Jewish calendar in the year 6000 Reply

"not matematically", don't engrandise it, mere counting is arithmetic and in any case, this is a story, not to be taken literally. Reply

Such precision after 2000 years? Reply

Wow I love your analysis and I have been noticing some significant events in the lead up to yr6000. Reply

it's 5783 Hebrew calender not 5998. So i don't trust any of you calculations because you didn't even have the right modern hebrew year. Reply

As regards precision after such a long time, consider this: Its quite difficult to accept that dialogue remains precisely recorded, except when in writing of some form. Contemporaneous recording of words and maintaining those records without error is not available for the date of the Exodus. However, in a community, the number of certain year would be much more likely to be kept intact. Imagine being at a Rosh Hashana gathering in 2021 and saying, what a great year this has been, the year 5773! Many people would speak up to correct you. Its 5782! some would remind you, and then the year could be kept accurately that way. If we apply that theory to the year of the Exodus, for which there is a very large consensus that it was 2448, then we get 1312 B.C.E. and we should look THERE for evidence of Shemot! For example, Egyptology is also in agreement as to the Pharoah of Egypt then. Reply

Horemheb is the name of the Pharaoh when the Exodus took place in 1312 B.C.E. Horemheb reigned from 1319 B.C.E. to 1292 B.C.E. according to ancient Egyptology experts. In the Hebrew calendar 1312 B.C.E. corresponds to 2448 A.E. Horemheb served as a General in Akhenaten's army. Reply

I was under the impression that the years in BC were counted down or subtracted.? These dates I'm reading are just the opposite. Here are my calculations
Joesph born 1590BC 17 years old when sold into Egypt=1573BC died at the age 110 1480BC
So the Israelites came to Egypt when Joesph was 30 years old 1560BC So the Israelites are in Egypt 400 years plus or minus? Exodus would be 1160BS?? I'm all eyes and ears! Reply

The earliest (oldest) finding of the word "Israel" on any surface is on an upright block of stone called the "Merneptah" stele. On it, the word "Israel" is spelled phonetically in hieroglyphics, and the translation is that it is referring to a group of people.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Merneptah_Stele.

The group's identity was important to that Pharoah and he announced that the group was no longer a concern for Egypt; that they were already dead or dying out. That was approximately 1208 B.C.E. If they were expected to be where the Pharaoh had been exploring and campaigning with his army, they were not to be found. Reply