Biblical Chronology Is One of My Big Interests

Using historical sources to get dates of events that occurred in bible. This could include the reigns of roman emperors for new testament, or kings like nebuchadnezzar of babylon and alexander the great of macedonia for old testament. Then they would add up the numbers found in the genealogies in the old testament,. And eventually get back to adam and eve. That lands you in genesis one, which depicts creation as occurring the course of a single week. But there are a lot of issues to sort out in doing these calculations, which is why the numbers come out differently in the three major reckonings. Still, they all converge on the same general