Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's chronology today

The Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar is a 17th century chronology of the history of the world formulated from an interpretative reading of the Bible by James Ussher, the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh (in what is now Northern Ireland). The chronology, first published in 1650, is famously the source of the citation by many modern Creationists that the universe was created by God in 4004 BC. The chronology is named for Ussher, as well as John Lightfoot, who published a similar chronology in 1642–1644. The chronology is, however, arguab ...

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• Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's methodology
• Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's history of the Earth
• Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's chronology today
• Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Lightfoot's Creation

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It may be an accident of history that Ussher's chronology remains so well known while those of Scaliger and Bede, amongst others, have slipped into obscurity. From about 1700 onwards, annotated editions of the immensely influential King James translation of the Bible began to include his chronology with their annotations and cross-references. The first page of Genesis was annotated with Ussher's date of Creation, 4004 BC, though in reality, Ussher's Annales is estimated to have relied on the Bible for only one sixth of its volu ...

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Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar, Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's methodology, Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's history of the Earth, Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's chronology today, Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Lightfoot's Creation

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Ussher and other biblical scholars were able to achieve a fairly close correspondence between their chronologies, as they used much the same methodology to calculate key events recorded in the Bible. Their task was complicated by the fact that the Bible was compiled from different sources over several centuries with differing versions and lengthy chronological gaps, making it impossible to do a simple totaling of Biblical ages and dates. In his article on Ussher's calendar, John Barr (see references) has identified three distinct periods tha ...

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Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar, Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's methodology, Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's history of the Earth, Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's chronology today, Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Lightfoot's Creation

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The precise time often cited as Lightfoot's moment of Creation, 9 a.m., and the erroneous belief that he placed his Creation on the same date as Ussher are both due to a partially fabricated 'quote' given by Andrew Dickson White in A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896): [I]n the seventeenth century, in his great work, Dr. John Lightfoot, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and one of the most eminent Hebrew scholars of his time, declared, as the result of his most profound and exhau ...

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Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar, Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's methodology, Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's history of the Earth, Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Ussher's chronology today, Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Lightfoot's Creation

Read more here: » Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar - Lightfoot's Creation