The Differences of Dating in the Period From Abraham Through Moses

After ezra and nehemiah, the bible has no dating information to supply until the books of machabes. None of these problems prevented generations of jewish and christian holars from constructing their own dating systems. Although the rabbis would contest it for centuries, they eventually decided on the date calculated by jose ben halafter,. A rabbi who lived at the height of the roman empire. In his work, the great order of the world, he computed that the world was created in three thousand 761 b c.