The age of the universe has long been a point of contention between biblical literalists and the scientific community. For some Christians, especially those in the Young Earth Creationist movement, the Bible offers a clear and authoritative timeline—placing the origin of all things roughly six thousand years ago. Others, including…
A Theological and Historical Analysis Atheists frequently cite Matthew 24:34—part of Jesus’s Olivet Discourse concerning signs of the end times and the impending destruction of the Jerusalem Temple—where Jesus declares, “Assuredly, I say to you, this generation (Greek: γενεά genea) will by no means pass away till all these things…
Dan Bruce’s Recalibrating Ancient Near East Chronology presents a fundamental reassessment of the chronological framework that has been widely accepted for Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) history from 1006 BCE to 560 BCE. The book challenges the conventional approach, which prioritizes the Assyrian Eponym Canon and the widely accepted 763 BCE…
For the past few decades, I have been doing research, with an emphasis on Bible prophecy and chronology. My research has shown that many of the traditional interpretations of prophecy, especially those found in the Book of Daniel, and academic timelines of Ancient Near East chronology are in error. Religious…
Dispensationalism relies heavily on the idea that the time-specific prophecies in the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation are interconnected to reveal a harmonized timeline for understanding future events. Without the link between Daniel and Revelation, many of the traditional end time interpretative approaches, such as the gap…
A reader who previewed my Bible chronology book emailed me about my views on the Young Earth vs. Old Earth controversy. In his words, he wanted to know if I believe, as he framed the question, “the Bible’s version of creation or science’s version of creation.” On this topic, I…
As regular readers of this website know, we shy away from the more Hollywood-ish aspects of prophecy interpretation. In our interpretations of Bible prophecy, you will not find cars and buses careening off the road, airplanes falling from the sky, or millions of Chinese soldiers leading the charge against Israel…
Did pharaoh Merneptah know about the promise that God made to Abraham and his seed about the land of Canaan? The late scholar Frank Moore Cross said the following about the Merneptah Stele, with its inscription almost universally recognized as the first extra-Biblical reference to Israel: “The Merneptah Stele is…
The timeline chart of the events of the Passover Week during Passover in 30 CE (see below) helps to answer the question about when the day began for Jews during the time of Jesus, at sunrise or sunset. In order to get all of the chronological details given in the…
Excerpt from Sacred Chronology of the Hebrew Kings (Introduction) Almost universally in modern times, the Bible has been rejected by scholars, including many conservative Bible scholars, as a trustworthy source text for the study of ancient chronology. Secular fields of study, primarily Geology and Archaeology, have all but assigned any…