Thread:SouthWriter/@comment-5175866-20150831225654/@comment-1777104-20150913045700

Are you sure he got my information right? I haven't seen anything yet.

I have spent most of today (yesterday now) working on the timeline. I think, if I remember Bishop Ussher correctly, that I would have reached the same date of creation within a year or two, if I had not gone with Abraham being born 60 years later (leaving Haran after his father had died). I came up with a date of 4167 BC -- 163 years earlier than the 4004 BC, he reached. It makes sense that Abram waited until his father died to continue his journey.

In my calculations today, I also pondered the calendar change. Making a reasonable deduction that with the month changing from 30 to 29.5 days, it had to happen during the Great Flood. It probably happened suddenly, with the 1.67% change in the distance of the moon's distance being a factor. Anyway, my figures showed that with the new "lunar calendar" that was eventually adopted by the Hebrews and others, the period of the flood was exactly 366 days -- the first "leap year" as measured in the Julian calendar. The flood began on a Tuesday and 'ended' on a Thursday, when Noah stepped off the ark.

There had been 5674 weeks and two days in the 1655 years, with the last one being a "leap" year. The leap in this case was 6 days, perhaps denoting a "new creation" of the earth. If I drop the late birth of Abraham for the 'first born' hypothesis. That would mean Abraham would have left Haran 15 years after he got there. I would trim 60 years off, but still be 65 years away from 4004 BC.

More later.