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Israel Crosses the Jordan under Joshua

On the 10th day of the 1st month Israel crosses the Jordan into Canaan (Josh 4:19), after the 40 years in the wilderness.

Sort year1450 BC
Tier 2 · CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher–Jones baseline)

Tier 2: CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher-Jones baseline): 1450 BC (no CFAH anchor point for this event). Jordan (secondary display) never sets the sort.

Description

Judges-period record added from James B. Jordan's chronology (secondary display) with Ussher, Jones and, where available, CFAH-1 Table 1 dates for sorting. Jordan treats the judgeships as partly overlapping regional sequences (North / Centre / South) fitted to the 480 years of 1 Kgs 6:1 and the 300 years of Judg 11:26.

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Chronologies

Dates for Israel Crosses the Jordan under Joshua, CFAH first
ChronologyDate as statedYear (BC / AM)Citation & note
CFAH-1 Table 1 Ussher–Jones baseline 1450 BC (Crossing the Jordan; "differs by 1 year from Jones")
Precision: year
 1450 BC Griffith & White, "Chronological Framework of Ancient History. 1: Problem, Data, and Methodology," ARJ 15 (2022): 377–390, section "Our Assumptions (Declared Biases)", Table 1 "Biblically derived dates from Ussher and Jones"
CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher-Jones biblical baseline adopted by CFAH); not a triangulated anchor point.
Sets sort year
Ussher-Jones "JOSHUA CROSSED JORDAN 1st MONTH 10th DAY = THURSDAY, APRIL 2, BC 1451"
Precision: day
 1451 BC Jones, Chart No. 4 "Judges to the First 3 Kings" (© 1993 Floyd Jones; chart text revised "As of 2007"), box "Chronology for the Conquering of Heshbon" (Josh 3:15, 4:19)
Jones, 15th ed. (2002), ch. V p. 90: "the crossing of Jordan took place in BC 1451 (AM 2553)".
Differs from sort year by 1 yr
Ussher 2553c AM, 1451 BC; 10th day of the 1st month (Friday, April 30)
Precision: day
 1451 BC
AM 2553		 Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §307 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription)
Differs from sort year by 1 yr
Jordan secondary 1st Month 2554, "Day 10: Israel crosses Jordan (Joshua 4:19); Passover lambs set aside."
Precision: day
 AM 2554 Jordan, A Chronological and Calendrical Commentary on the Pentateuch (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 3, Biblical Horizons, Oct. 2001), ch. 19 "The Years 2553 and 2554", p. 54 (day list)
2001. Same year in From Creation to Solomon (2001), p. 51 summary: "2554 - Beginning of Conquest of the land." Jordan's year here turns at the 7th month, so his 1st month of 2554 follows Moses' death on 11/1/2554. One year later than Ussher/Jones AM 2553.
Jordan secondary "2553 - Beginning of Conquest of the land."
Precision: year
 AM 2553 Jordan, "Chronology and Kings (II)," Biblical Chronology 3:8 (August 1991), section "The Judges", summary list
1991 scheme, superseded by Jordan himself in 2001 (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 2 dates the whole judges sequence 26 years later because he there ends the 300 years of Judg 11:26 when Ammon took the villages, AM 2860, not at Jephthah's victory). Same essay: "Since the invasion of the land came in A.M. 2553 ...".
Jordan (compilation) secondary Mar. – Apr. 2554 A.M. was the “1st month, 10th day” when Joshua crossed the Jordan River (Josh. 4:19).
Precision: day
 AM 2554 Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 6, chart "Year of the World: From Joseph’s death to the Judges"
Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 2554.
Biblical statements (direct Scripture data) 10th day of the 1st month
Precision: unknown
 — Josh 4:19

Disagreements & open questions

  • Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1451 BC (Ussher-Jones, Ussher); 1450 BC (CFAH-1 Table 1).
  • Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 2553 (Ussher, Jordan); AM 2554 (Jordan, Jordan (compilation)).

Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.

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