gradually began to be recognized as such, and, in later times, among the Jews, the date of the defeat of Nicanor by Seleucus Nicator, and the establishment of the Seleucid domination in Syria (312 B.C.) came to be looked upon as a fixed era.

What complicates the earlier periods of Bible history is, the fact that there was no recognized era (such as the Dionysian Era of our own times) to reckon events from, though for the Roman world the founding of Rome in the eighth century B.C.

Paralipomenon) written after the Exile, by setting forth the splendors of ancient ritual, sought to move them to the worthy celebration of Divine worship (op. On the other hand, the Book of Chronicles (D.V. 284), it had a higher end than the historical, viz., to show the peoples of Israel and of Juda that it was their wickedness that brought destruction on them, and, by setting before them the proofs of God‘s mercy, to lead them back to the observance of the Law. Else, e.g., why two parallel histories of the kingdom-Kings and Chronicles? It is because, as Father Cornely says of the Book of Kings (“Introductio”, Vol. And even those that are so, are not written primarily from the point of view of history.

Some of them, as the Psalms, are in no sense such. the differences between the Hebrew, Septuagint, and Samaritan Pentateuchs), but the Books of Scripture, moreover, are not a mere history. It is not merely that in the matter of numbers the Hebrew text has not always reached us incorrupt (cf. “There is no Chronology of the Bible“, wrote Silvester de Sacy and, though this saying is too sweeping, it may be said with truth that for large parts of the Bible there is little to guide us to an exact determination as to when the events related happened. It has to consider how far the Bible contains a chronology at all to what extent the Sacred Writers aimed at exactness, or were satisfied with round numbers whether, and to what extent, textual errors and other sources of corruption have crept into the numbers of the Bible and finally, what relation exists between the chronologies that have been handed down by neighboring nations and that which exists in the Bible.

Chronology, BIBLICAL, deals with the dates of the various events recorded in the Bible.

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