Against a Late Date of the Exodus

Creation vs. Evolution: 480 Years From Exodus to Temple? · Φιλολoγικά / Philologica: Against a Late Date of the Exodus · A Reason Against Egyptian Records

Among Christian exegetes, the position is kind of this, those who argue for it:

• King Solomon built his temple in the 10th C.
• The 480 years are symbolic, with "40" for a generation, these being actually shorter in real chronology.

The Jews seem to have a very different but converging motive.

• They take the 480 as literally that length, not a minimum actually overpassed, but 480 years and no longer, this is a shortening of 48 years of the chronology;
• They furthermore have a shortening of the so called "intertestamental period" (after the books they — and Protestants — count as canonical) which can be seen by noting that the current Jewish year is not 2023 + 4004 as Ussher got, but a different, lower number.

That lower number is (2023 / 2024) the Jewish year of 5784 after Creation.

The Masoretic reckoning of anno Mundi would in Ussher's count have Christ born 4003 after Creation. I e, creation is 4004 years.*

2024 + 4003 = 6027 (Ussher's anno Mundi for next year)
6027 - 5784 = 243 (shortening of intertestamental period)
243 + 48 = 291 (add shortening by taking 480 as exact instead of minimal)
1511 BC - 291 = 1220 BC.

But the shortening is wrong, and it is also wrong to take the 480 years as exactly that rather than a minimum, therefore, an Exodus in 1220 BC is wrong, and an Exodus in 1511 BC is right. QED./HGL

* Before Christ. I was tired./HGL