Tag: Levi

Filling the Gap:  Jochebed and Amram

Badgerholt inkpotThe paternity of Jochebed (the mother of Aaron and Moses) and her blood relation to Amram her husband was another question needing research, as well as when she might fit into the timeline.

According to the Septuagint, Jochebed was the daughter of Amram’s father’s brother and not the sister of his father. Jochebed was not Amram’s aunt but rather his first cousin.  This blood relationship is consistant with YHWH’s later expressed law.

Jochebed and Amram had a parallel cousin marriage, the most desireable type of marriage in the Ancient Near East. This is the same kind of marriage that Abram and Sarai and Nahor and Milcah had.

This link Filling the Gap: Jochebed and Amram will take you to an essay discussing this issue.  Once again, the tables, even with the plug-in, do not post well on the blog.

Grace and peace to you,

Dori

Filling the Gap:  The Four Generations

Badgerholt inkpotThe  conclusion that the 430 years refers to the time between Abram entering Canaan and the Exodus, and that the 400 years counts from the birth of Isaac to the Exodus, still leaves the Chronology at 307 years. Extending the chart to 430 years leaves a 123 year gap between the year Levi died and the Exodus. The next step is filling the gap, starting with plugging Moses’ and Aaron’s life dates into the Chronology.

There is also the question of YHWH telling Abram that his descendents would return to Canaan in the fourth generation (Genesis 15.16).  Four generations spread over a couple of hundred years.  How did that work?

This link Filling the Gap: The Four Generations will take you to an essay discussing that question. Once again, the tables, even with the plug-in, do not post well on the blog.

Grace and peace to you,

Dori

 

ICB: Next Step: Charting Levi’s life years

Badgerholt inkpotWhere to plug Levi into the ICB chart?

Combining all the charts from “A Question in Genesis” created the beginnings of a chronology internal to the Story in the Bible (ICB) based on life dates, stretching 285 years from Year 00/075 Abram when Abram left Harran at 75 years old to Year 285/110 Jos when Joseph died at 110 years old.  The next life date that could push the ICB forward is Levi’s death age at 137 years old given in Exodus 6.16. The key to plugging Levi’s death date into the ICB chart is figuring out when he was born.

What is the birth order of Jacob’s sons according to their father?

This link Levi’s Birth will take you to the essay discussing the charting of Levi’s life years. Again, the extensive tables don’t work well in a blog post.

Grace and peace to you,

Dori

To God be the glory!