TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finegan, Jack
AU  - Finegan,Jack
TI  - Handbook of Biblical Chronology:  Principles of Time Reckoning in the Ancient World and Problems of Chronology in the Bible
SN  - 1565631439   
U1  - B01 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Peabody
PB  - Hendrickson Publishers
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; PRINCIPLES OF CHRONOLOGY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD   NUMERALS	3  THE RECKONING OF TIME IN THE ANCIENT WORLD	6  UNITS OF TIME	6   CALENDARS	18   The Egyptian Calendar	18   The Babylonian Calendar	25   The Israelite Calendar	29   The Babylonian Calendar in Palestine	33   The Calendar at Qumran	39   The Calendar of Jubilees	43   The Greek Calendar	50   The Macedonian Calendar	51   The Roman Calendar	64  OFFICIAL AND REGNAL YEARS	68   In Egypt	68   In Mesopotamia	72   Among the Jews	76   In Greece	80   In Rome	81   ERAS	92   The Era of the Olympiads	92   The Era of the City of Rome	98   The SeleucidEra `	101   The Jewish Eras	105   The Era of Diocletian	113   The Christian Era	113  E. SABBATICAL YEARS, JUBILEES, AND PRIESTLY COURSES       116   Sabbatical Years	116   Jubilees	126   Priestly Courses	130   Qumran and Jerusalem	134   EARLY CHRONICLERS AND CHRONOGRAPHERS	139   Chronicles and Chronographies	139     Greek and Roman	139  Jewish	140    Early Christian	153   The Chronographies of Africanus	154   The Chronicle of Eusebius	160     Chronology in the Church History	161     The Armenian Version of the Chronicle	165    The Latin Version of the Chronicle by Jerome	165     From Adam to Abraham in the Chronicle	168    From Abraham through the Egyptian Servitude	169    From the Wandering in the Wilderness to the Foundation  of the Temple in the Fourth Year of Solomon	173     From the Fifth Year of Solomon to the Destruction  of the Temple	174   The Seventy Years of Captivity	177    From the Rebuilding of the Temple to the Birth of Jesus	182   The Period of the Life of Jesus	184   From after the Death of Jesus to the Final Destruction  of Jerusalem in the Second Year of Vespasian	186   The Tables of the Chronicle from Julius Caesar to Vespasian	186   Summary of the Chronicle	189   PROBLEMS OF CHRONOLOGY IN THE BIBLE  THE OLD TESTAMENT	195   From Abraham to Jacob and Joseph	195   Joseph	206   The Exodus	224   The Kings of Judah and Israel	245   The Closing Period of the Kingdom of Judah	251   The Exile of Jehoiachin	262   The Dates in Ezekiel	264   Post-Exilic Dates	266  THE NEW TESTAMENT	270   THE LIFE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST	274   THE LIFE OF JESUS	279   The Birth of Jesus	279   The Public Ministry of Jesus	329   The Death of Jesus	353   Summary and Possible Chronological Schemes of  the Life of Jesus	366   THE LIFE OF PETER	369   THE LIFE OF PAUL	390
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