Strabo, a Greek geographer and historian, wrote (c. When this people or Hyksos were gone out of Egypt to Jerusalem, Ahmose the king of Egypt, who drove them out, reigned afterward 25 years and 4 months (Against Apion I:94, 250, 231, 265 II:16). 280 BCE), was the priest who ordained their polity and their laws, his name Aauserre-Apopi but that when he was gone over to these people, his name was changed, and he was called Moses.
Moreover (see Dating the War of the Hyksos), Moses, according to Manetho an Egyptian priest (c. For example, the oldest epigraphs in paleo- Hebrew are dated 1515 +/- 35 BCE and the ostracon of Tell Qaiyafa, dated prior to 1010 +/- 40 BCE refers to Leviticus 19:13. However according to history and chronology, all these claims are manifestly false. According to this prominent archaeologist there would never have been 1) any biblical writing in the time of Moses (Dt 31:24), 2) neither domesticated camels in the time of Abraham (Gn 12:6), 3) nor Philistines (Gn 21:34), 4) nor Hittites (Gn 23:10), 5) nor Arameans (Dt 26:5), 6) nor Chaldeans (Gn 11:28), etc. Finkelstein against the Pentateuch, based on an absence of evidence which would be evidence of the absence, are accepted by the majority of academic scholars. It is not randomly assembled episodes recitations but an editorial choice made by a single author who thought that long text as a whole. In addition, if these multiple sources had actually existed before being amalgamated, they would have been assembled into an undefined order (if authors were independent) as was the case, for example, for the scrolls of the minor prophets (and even the four Gospels), however all the manuscripts of the Pentateuch have the same arrangement of chapters and its five books are always in the same order. In fact, no manuscript evidence of the J,E,P,D-documents or any of the other supposed fragments have ever been discovered and there are no ancient Jewish commentaries that mention any of these imaginary documents or their alleged unnamed authors. However, the ‘documentary theory’ sequence is only based on an evolutionary theory popularized by German archeologists during the World War II to struggle against Jewish and Christian fundamentalism. Wellhausen (1895), was accepted by the majority of academic scholars for many years without notable controversy. 600 BCE), and the Priestly source, or P (c. 450 BCE by combining four originally independent sources, known as the Jehovist, or J (c. The ‘documentary theory’, which suggests that the five books were created c. A symbolic interpretation of the patriarchal lifespans from an evangelical perspective will be proposed and defended, and the proposal will be applied to other extraordinary lifespans in Scripture. This paper proposes that the Genesis genealogies reflect the authentic Middle Bronze age practice of using schematic and exaggerated lifespans. This paper will outline reasons from both inside and outside the Bible why the patriarchal lifespans were never intended to be read as face value numbers, and will survey a history of interpretation. The accommodationist approach acknowledges the conflict and accepts that the divine author of Genesis may have allowed pre-scientific language and perhaps even erroneous concepts in order to portray truth to the original audience. The concordist approach attempts to show that the biblical text is actually in harmony with an unbiased reading of the scientific evidence. Two approaches have been used to reconcile these unusual lifespans with historical reality.
Plus, a chronology based on these lifespans is biblically inconsistent, and contradicts the archaeology of the Intermediate Bronze and Middle Bronze ages. A face-value reading of the patriarchal ages contradicts other Scriptures. But the problems are not limited to scientific data outside the Bible. Skeletal and tooth wear data from ancient times indicates an average lifespan of around forty years old, not over 900 years as in Genesis 5, or even the almost 200 years of the later patriarchs. However for those who believe Genesis records actual events about real people, the lifespans raise significant questions. If the patriarchal narratives are merely legends, then exaggerated lifespans fit right in. The long lifespans in Genesis are only a problem for those who hold to inerrancy.
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