Genesis 5 and 11: (Virtually) Gap Free

Nuzi Tablets: The Discovery That Reshaped Biblical History
Flying Eagle Publications | 19 Dec. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdWwT2oBT7I

6:09 "to the time period of Abraham and the patriarchs"

Actually a bit later.

2150 to 1900 BC, if each date is carbon dated, starts after 1634 BC (=dated as 2212 BC).

Hans Stein

@hans.stein.

Can you expand on that?

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

@hans.stein. Gladly, Sir!

2150 BC in this context is at least for part of the dates carbon dated (OK, some dates might be 50 or 150 years before a carbon date, but I suppose a tablet can be carbon dated from the wool cover or the wood shelf supporting it).

Now, the carbon date 2150 BC is after ...

1634 BC

93.251 pmC, dated as 2212 BC

... and the last carbon date mentioned, 1900 BC, is before ...

1590 BC

97.033 pmC, dated as 1839 BC

... i e when Moses was born (Exodus in 1510 BC being from the Roman Martyrology and the carbon date/Bibl. date matches around this being:

1590 BC = carbon date of the coffin of Sesostris III, whom I take as the child killing pharao and
1700 BC = carbon date of the burial ship of Djoser, whom I take to be Joseph's pharao, as in Joseph = Imhotep).

So, these tablets are from a short time span, less than 44 years, within the Soujourn in Egypt.

After watching all.

We have three arguments now that the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 are complete (and chronologically exact at least at some approximation and in some text version). At least against Christian Old Earthers (who by now imagine Abraham was more than just 2000--3000 years after mankind began).

1) If the transmission was oral, the number of generations from Adam to Moses or from Adam to Abraham was about the number of minimally overlapping generations it could take without being corrupted: if one says there were far more generations, it's untenable, Genesis 3 wouldn't be history so wouldn't be dogma;
2) Alternatively, if it was written, it is for that reason likely to have been precisely preserved;
3) Either way, against the idiocy of Archibald Sayce parallelling Biblical genealogies to regal ones that skipped over unimportant ancestors, we have an exact genre match if not to the exact same period as the Patriarchs, at least to some time before Moses. Nuzi tablets are humdrum records, not claims bolstered by the most highfaluting memories to the omission of the rest.

Parzival

@Parzival711-x7i

long lifespans in Genesis, such as Adam (930 years), Noah (950 years), Abraham (175 years), Jacob (147 years), and even Moses (120 years) in Exodus.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

hglundahl

@Parzival711-x7i Yes?