A New Approach to the Chronology of Biblical History from Abraham to Samuel Second Edition

Loda, Illinois: Aardsma Research & Pub, 1995. Second Edition. Comb Bound. AS NEW/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], comb bound with pictorial covers, pp. 112, indexed. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... A review of The Exodus Happened 2450 B.C. by Gerald E. Aardsma noted: "This is a report on a book entitled The Exodus Happened 2450 B.C. by Gerald E. Aardsma. I have met Gerald, and he is in fact a connection by marriage, being Tina's first cousin once removed. As the title indicates, his book argues for the historical reality of the Biblical Exodus by re-dating it.The most commonly accepted date for the Exodus (or for the claim of the Exodus) is 1450 BC, based on 1 Kings 6:1: "Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel,..." (NASB). Other lines of reasoning give the year of Solomon's ascension as c. 970 BC, so that gives c. 1450 BC as the date of the Exodus. Gerald's argument hinges on the proposal that a thousand years have dropped out of the text as we have it, and that it originally was "in the 1,480th year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt..." I confess, when I reached that point in the book on my first read-through, I dismissed the theory. "Oh, well, if you're going to let yourself change the data to fit, then of course you can get the outcome you want, but it won't be very convincing." On recent re-reading, I find that there's more to it than that.For a start, Gerald gives some Scriptural reasons for doubting the accuracy of the number 480.