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36 Dating the Book of Job rectify all things in the end is, however, in agreement with the canonical Bible (Revelation 12:11, I John 3:16). – And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. (Revelation 12:11 NKJV) – By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. (I John 3:16 NKJV) It may be this prophecy in I Enoch to which king David was referring when he said, “Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever. Why do You hide Your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?” (Psalms 44:22-24 NKJV). Some argue against apocryphal texts like I Enoch by saying that we do not know how much of the text that we have modernly is original. With I Enoch, however, fragments of its text through 103:7-8 have been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS fragment 7QEn) and these fragments are in agreement with what we have today (it is even rumored that the complete text of I Enoch was found among the DSS 16 ). It is significant to note that the seventy shepards prophesied in I Enoch apparently come to authority in sequential order because I Enoch 89:25 describes the latter twelve of the shepards as being more distructive that those who went before them. – Then I saw, that the man, who wrote the book at the word of the Lord, opened the book of destruction, of that destruction which the last twelve shepherds wrought; and pointed out before the Lord of the sheep, that they destroyed more than those who preceded them. (I Enoch 89:25) It seems likely that these seventy shepards are men because there would not seem to be any good reason for cycling through so many different angles over this span of time. While angles are immmortal and can hold a position of authority indifinately, men are not and in practicality tend not to hold possitions of authority for much more than thirty years. Interestingly, about two thousand years have elapsed since the first advent of Christ and 70 into 2000 yields about 30 years. Note also that Christ said that His church would exist right up to the end of the age (Matthew 16:18). – And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. (Matthew 16:18 NKJV) On page 7, it was shown that the book of Job was written between 600 and 700 years after the flood. This previous estimate did not, however, take into account that the lengths of time were based on a calendar that had only six 30-day months to its year. Taking the six-month-year into account, the date for the occurance of the events of the book of Job would be somewhere in the range of 300 to 350 years after the flood. To get a date relative to the birth of Christ, we can refer to Stephen Franklin’s work which, using biblical dates and taking the six-month-year into account, calculates a date of 1185 BC for the Exodus. 1185 plus 135 for the time the Israelites were in Egypt plus 65 for the age of Jacob when he went to Egypt gives a birthdate of 1385 BC for the twins Jacob and Esau. Because Esau was 20 years old when he married (Genesis 26:34) and because Eliphaz was his firstborn (Genesis 36:15), we can figure the birthdate of Eliphaz to be about 1385 - 20 = 1365 BC. We can sum some minimums to get an idea of when the events of the book of Job took 16 Ancient Secrets of the Bible: DEAD SEA SCROLLS - What Do the Dead Sea Scrolls Tell Us?, offset ~14 min.
Dating the Book of Job 37 place. Elihu was the youngest of those who were alive at the time and his ancestral line back to Jacob is the longest. Elihu’s ancestor Hezron was alive before Israel went to Egypt (Genesis 46:12) but there is no mention of Hezron’s son Ram in the list of those who went to Egypt with Israel so, at a minimum, Ram was born in 1385 - 65 = 1320 BC. At a minimum, the age of Ram at the birth of Barachel was 15 years. Likewise, a minimum age for Barachel at the birth of Elihu would be 15 years. Elihu himself, at a minimum, would have had to have been about 10 years old when the events of Job took place. 1320 - 15 - 15 - 10 = 1280 BC. So, the minimum age for Eliphaz when the events of the book of Job took place would be 1365 - 1280 = 85 years. Because Job/Jobab was two generations from Eliphaz, he would have been at least 30 years younger than Eliphaz. Because Job lived another 70 years after the events of the book of Job took place (Job 42:16), he was probably in his mid-thirties to early fourties at the most. Supposing that Eliphaz was 85 to 95 years old when the events of the book of Job took place, the book of Job would be chronicling events that took place between 1280 and 1270 BC – about 100 years before the Exodus. As explained in the below excerpt, it is also evident from the text of the book of Job itself that it is older than any other book of the Bible. Excerpted from ancient-hebrew.org: Biblical Hebrew E-Magazine – Issue #019: Q: What is the Oldest book of the Bible? A: The books of the Bible are not arranged in a chronological order. The books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are, by tradition, believed to be written by Moses and are usually believed to be the oldest books of the Bible. But this is not the case. The book of Job is the oldest book, some even believing it was originally written before the flood. The most compelling evidence for the antiquity of the book of Job is its use of Hebrew words. In many cases the more ancient, concrete meaning of a word is found in the book of Job. As an example the Hebrew word “pachad” is used to mean fear or awe an abstract concept but is used in its concrete form only in Job 4:14 – “dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake”.
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