Ancient History Timeline

Event

Joshua Divides the Land among the Tribes

When the war of conquest ends, Joshua divides the land west of the Jordan by lot; Caleb is 85 (Josh 14:7–10) and the land rests (Josh 21:43–45).

Sort year1444/1443 BC
Tier 2 · CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher–Jones baseline)

Tier 2: CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher-Jones baseline): 1444 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 Joshua Divides the Land among the Tribes, CFAH first
ChronologyDate as statedYear (BC / AM)Citation & note
CFAH-1 Table 1 Ussher–Jones baseline 1444/1443 BC (Division of the Land, first Sabbatical and Jubilee)
Precision: year-range
 1444/1443 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 "FINISHED DIVIDING LAND TO THE LAST 7 TRIBES 1444 BC"
Precision: year
 1444 BC Jones, Chart No. 4 "Judges to the First 3 Kings" (© 1993 Floyd Jones; chart text revised "As of 2007"), timeline band
Jones, 15th ed. (2002), ch. V p. 90: "the land was therefore divided in BC 1444 (1451 – 7 = 1444)".
Ussher 2560a AM, 1445 BC (remaining land divided among the other seven tribes)
Precision: year
 1445 BC
AM 2560		 Ussher, Annals of the World, Fourth Age §336 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription)
§332 (2559a AM, 1446 BC): "When the whole land was conquered, the next year he divided it"; §338 (2560d AM, 1444 BC): Levitical cities assigned.
Differs from sort year by 1 yr
Jordan secondary "2559 - End of Conquest, Division of the land. Caleb 85 years old." / "2560 - Israel goes to its lands. Beginning of the 300 years of Judges 11:26."
Precision: year
 AM 2559–2560 Jordan, From Creation to Solomon (Studies in Biblical Chronology No. 2, Biblical Horizons, Oct. 2001), ch. 11 "The Era of the Judges and the Reign of Saul", p. 51
2001 revision. Jordan's 1991 list (BC 3:8) has an earlier year; see the second Jordan entry. Jordan is not consistent here: the same chapter, p. 44, says "the land was (sabbatically) divided in the 7th year, AM 2560", and Pentateuch commentary (No. 3) ch. 20 "The Conquest", p. 55: war of conquest "beginning in 2554 and ending in 2559"; 2560 "the first year of occupation" and first sabbath of the land.
Jordan secondary "2560 - End of Conquest, Division of the land. Caleb (and Joshua?) 85 years old."
Precision: year
 AM 2560 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). Text: "Caleb was 85 when the conquest of the land came to an end. This would be, then, the year A.M. 2559 ... the land was (sabbatically) divided in the 7th year, A.M. 2560." BC 2:8 (1990): "AM 2560 End of Conquest".
Jordan (compilation) secondary Conquest complete / Land divided 2560 1450 Josh. 14 (1st Jubilee Year)
Precision: year
 1450 BC
AM 2560		 Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 11, chart table "Biblical History According To A.M & B.C. Dates"
Page 6: "2559 AM War of Conquest lasted 6 years and the land was most likely divided within that year" and "2560 AM 1st Jubilee Year, b/c land is possessed". Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 2560. The compilation's B.C. year (1450) is AM subtracted from 4010 (its own convention: Creation 4010 B.C.); Jordan's own SBC B.C. figures differ. Display only; never converted or used for sorting.
Differs from sort year by 6 yrs
Biblical statements (direct Scripture data) Caleb 40 at the spying, 85 "this day" (45 years later)
Precision: unknown
 — Josh 14:7-10

Disagreements & open questions

  • Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 1450 BC (Jordan (compilation)); 1445 BC (Ussher); 1444 BC (CFAH-1 Table 1, Ussher-Jones).
  • Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 2559 (Jordan); AM 2560 (Ussher, 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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