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Final Territorial Division of the Earth (birth of Peleg)

"Unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided" (Gen 10:25). CFAH dates the final division to 2247 B.C., the year of Peleg's birth.

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Tier 1 · CFAH anchor point

Tier 1: CFAH anchor point: 2247 B.C. (AP-28)

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CFAH-4 AP-28: Ctesias (via Africanus/Syncellus) gives Belus/Cush a 55-year reign, read as running from Peleg's birth in 2247 BC to the Dispersion in 2192/2191 B.C.

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Chronologies

Dates for Final Territorial Division of the Earth (birth of Peleg), CFAH first
ChronologyDate as statedYear (BC / AM)Citation & note
CFAH anchor point 2247 B.C.
Precision: year
 2247 BC Griffith & White, "Chronological Framework of Ancient History. 4: Dating Creation and the Deluge," ARJ 16 (2023): 475–489, section "AP-28: Second/Final Territorial Division: 2247 B.C."
AP-28 ties the final division to "the birth of Peleg in 2247 BC (Ussher 2005, 21, §47)".
Sets sort year
CFAH-1 Table 1 Ussher–Jones baseline 2247 BC (Territorial Division of the Earth)
Precision: year
 2247 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.
Ussher-Jones Not yet established — —
Not stated in the Jones sources read (Chart No. 1; Chronology of the Old Testament 15th ed. 2002, Chronological Compendium p. 1). Leave empty until verified.
Ussher 1757 AM, 2247 BC (Peleg born; division "if this happened at the day of his birth")
Precision: conjectural
 2247 BC
AM 1757		 Ussher, Annals of the World, Second Age §47 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription)
Ussher: "If this happened at the day of his birth, then it seems that when Peleg was born, Noah ... divided the land among his grandchildren."
Jordan secondary "I shall arbitrarily put the division of the nations in a.m. 1871 (2059 B.C.; midway between the Flood and Abram's exodus from Egypt)"
Precision: conjectural
 2059 BC
AM 1871		 Jordan, "Egypt in Biblical History," Biblical Chronology 5:8 (December 1993), section "The Beginnings of Egypt"
Jordan rejects dating the division to Peleg's birth: "Perhaps the tower of Babel incident happened about the time of Peleg's birth, but that is unlikely" (BC 6:4 §7). He dates Peleg's birth AM 1757 (see peleg). B.C. year is Jordan's "SBC" (strictest Biblical chronology), which takes Daniel's 70 weeks literally from Cyrus (456 B.C. instead of the conventional 536 B.C.); not comparable one-to-one with Ussher/CFAH B.C. years.
Differs from sort year by 188 yrs
Biblical statements (direct Scripture data) During Peleg's lifetime (AM 1757–1996 by MT arithmetic)
Precision: year-range
 AM 1757–1996 Gen 10:25; Gen 11:10–19
"In his days" - Scripture does not fix the year within Peleg's life.
MT-Gen Within AM 1757–1996 (Peleg's lifetime)
Precision: year-range
 AM 1757–1996 Gen 11:10–19 (Arphaxad AM 1658 + 35 + 30 + 34 = 1757; Peleg lived 30 + 209 = 239 years)

Disagreements & open questions

  • Chronologies disagree BC years differ: 2247 BC (CFAH, CFAH-1 Table 1, Ussher); 2059 BC (Jordan).
  • Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 1757 (Biblical statements (direct Scripture data), Ussher, MT-Gen); AM 1871 (Jordan).

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