Ancient Near East (ANE) chronology is often presented as one of the most secure achievements of modern historical scholarship. The chronologies of Assyria, Egypt, and the Hebrew kingdoms have been refined over many decades by specialists working within their respective fields. As a result, many scholars regard the overall chronological…
Edwin R. Thiele (1895–1986) was one of the most influential figures in twentieth‑century biblical chronology. Born in Chicago, he was educated in ancient languages and biblical archaeology, and spent twelve years as a Seventh‑day Adventist missionary in China before pursuing graduate studies at the University of Chicago. He received his…
A Discussion of Chronological Method in Evangelical Scholarship Conservative biblical scholarship has long affirmed the authority and inerrancy of Scripture as a foundational doctrine. In recent decades, it has so so while simultaneously employing interpretive devices—such as undocumented co-regencies and conjectural scribal error to resolve chronological tensions in the regnal…
The word “time” (Hebrew עִדָּן ʿiddān) plays a pivotal role in the Book of Daniel. It is not used as a vague or symbolic expression, but as a chrono-specific unit embedded within a sequence of prophecies whose fulfillment must correspond exactly with verifiable history. Understanding its meaning requires tracing how…
For more than half a century, Edwin Thiele’s The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings has been treated as the standard solution to the chronological problems posed by the regnal data in the biblical text. His work is widely respected, frequently cited, and often assumed to have “solved” the difficulties…
Preface: This topic is important because every timeline taught in modern seminaries and found in popular study Bibles is based on an incorrect secular Assyrian chronology that anchors all Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) timelines. Abstract This article re-examines the assumptions underlying Ancient Near East chronology prior to the year 745…
The book Daniel Unsealed by Dan Bruce … available as a PDF download in the FREE BOOKS section of this website … explains that all predictive prophecies in the Book of Daniel have now been fulfilled in history, the final one being fulfilled in 1967 with the liberation of the…
The Bible reveals a God who acts with precision, not approximation. His words are not vague forecasts open to conjecture, but declarations anchored in truth and time. When Scripture speaks of prophetic timelines—particularly in the Book of Daniel—it demonstrates that God’s omniscient plan unfolds through exact events in measurable history.…
How Doctrinal Chronology Made Science LoseRespect for the Authority of Scripture The Early Spirit of Inquiry For most of Christian history, biblical chronology was not a closed dogma but a living branch of scholarship. Medieval and early modern thinkers regarded the Bible as a record of real events set in…
For nearly two centuries, belief in seven years of unimaginable end-time tribulation has stood as a cornerstone of conservative Christian eschatology—and has even found vivid expression in Hollywood’s apocalyptic films. Repeated for so long by so many, the idea has taken on an almost sacrosanct authority, and questioning it is…