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How long ago did Abraham of the Old Testament live?

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2166 BC - 1991 BC, although the dates can vary slightly depending on which Egyptian dynastic chronology your favorite Egyptologist follows. His dates can be calculated from the date of the Exodus from Egypt, in 1486 BC under Thutmose I, given the preceding chronology in Genesis. read more

According to Masoretic text of the Bible, Abraham was born about 2056 BCE and lived for 175 years, so dying about 1881 BCE, which is about 3900 years ago. The strong consensus of biblical scholars and historians is that Abraham never really existed, which makes these estimates moot. read more

With 430 years between Abraham’s 75th year and the Exodus he would have arrived in Canaan in the year 1876 during the Isin-Larsa period like Kitchen dates him. Alfred Hoerth, in his Archaeology and the Old Testament, uses this method to date Abraham to this period (Hoerth 1998, pp. 58–59). read more

I, along with others, have done studies on the chronology of the Old Testament genealogies - which puts Abraham being born ~1950 years after Adam, and about 300 years after the flood. Given that the earth is approximately 6000 years old, that makes Abraham's birth about 2050BC. read more

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